End of the 19th c. |
Arrival of motor vehicles in Europe: an event for celebration! |
1918-1940 |
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1947 |
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1949 |
International Conference of Motor Insurers convened in London by Motor Insurers’ Bureau United Kingdom at which:
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1949 |
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1951 |
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1951 |
New member: German Democratic Republic |
1952 |
Resolution No.43 adopted by the Economic Commission for Europe formally approving the Green Card System, the form of the International Motor Insurance Card (“Green Card”) |
1953 |
Implementation of the Green Card System on the 1st January 1953 |
1953 |
New member: Italy, Spain, Portugal |
1954 |
New members: Austria, Serbia |
1958 |
New member: Poland |
1959 |
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1960 |
New member: Hungary |
1964 |
New member: Turkey |
1965 |
A decision to extend the territory of the Green Card System to certain countries outside Europe |
1965 |
New member: Romania |
1967 |
Stephen O. Masefield (GB), Chairman of the CoB until 1983 |
1968 |
New member: Israel |
1969 |
New members: Morocco, Tunisia |
1970 |
New member: Iceland |
1971 |
New member: Bulgaria |
1972 |
Adoption of the 1st Motor Insurance Directive: by this Directive, the control of Green Cards for vehicles normally based in a Member State of the European Union entering the territory of another Member State, was abolished. |
1973 |
Supplementary Agreements between Western European Bureaux |
1974 |
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1976 |
New member: Iran |
1982 |
Peter Morgan (GB), Secretary General of the CoB until 1998 |
1983 |
Peter J. Sherman (GB), Chairman of the CoB until 1991 |
1983 |
Adoption of the 2nd Motor Insurance Directive |
1984 |
Consolidated Resolution of the Economic Commission for Europe on the Facilitation of Road Transport |
1985 |
New member: Malta |
1990 |
Adoption of the 3rd Motor Insurance Directive |
1991 |
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1992 |
New members: Albania, Croatia, Estonia, Slovenia |
1994 |
Protection of Visitors Agreement to provide assistance to visitors who are victim of an accident in the visited countries |
1994 |
New member: F.Y.R.O.M |
1996 |
New members: Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus |
1997 |
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1997 |
New members: Moldova, Ukraine |
1998 |
Michael J. Nicholson (GB), Secretary General of the CoB until 2007 |
1998 |
New member: Latvia |
1999 |
The CoB celebrates 50 years of its existence in Oxford, England |
2000 |
Adoption of the 4th Motor Insurance Directive |
2003 |
New members: Belarus, Lithuania |
2005 |
Adoption of the 5th Motor Insurance Directive |
2005 |
Ulf Blomgren (S), President of the CoB until 2010 |
2006 |
Secretariat services of the CoB are transferred to new offices in Brussels |
2007 |
Alain Pire (B), Secretary General of the CoB until 2012 |
2009 |
New member: Russia |
2009 |
Adoption of the Codified Motor Insurance Directive |
2010 |
Mariusz Wichtowski (PL), President of the CoB until 2015 |
2012 |
Greet Floré (B), Secretary General of the CoB |
2012 |
New Protection of Visitors Agreement(completely reviewed) |
2012 |
New member: Montenegro |
2015 |
Jean Zenners (L), President of the CoB until 2020 |
2016 |
New member: Azerbaijan |