Context
On 21st February 2021, the government announced it intended to remove the effects of the 2014 European Court of Justice’s ruling in the EU Vnuk case from UK law. The Hon. Member for Wellingborough, Mr Peter Bone, has now introduced a private member’s bill (entitled ‘Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance)’) to remove Vnuk from UK legislation. Vnuk is a 2014 European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on the case of a Slovenian farmer, Mr Vnuk, who was knocked off his ladder by a reversing tractor-trailer on a private farm in 2007.
Key points to note
- The ruling directed that the compulsory motor insurance requirement must be extended to include vehicles being used on private land, as well as a greater range of vehicles – potentially including those used in motorsports, agricultural machinery and light electric vehicles (LEV).
- The government has been clear since the ruling in 2014 that it does not agree with it.
- The private members bill aims to deliver the necessary legislative change.
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