TORREIRO V AIG EUROPE LTD

Case C-334/16, Court of Justice of the European Union, 20 December 2017

Insurance (motor) - Use of vehicle - Claimant injured on military exercise on private land - Whether insurance required - European Parliament and Council Directive 2009/103/EC, article 3

T, an officer in the Spanish army, was injured on 28 June 2012 when a military vehicle in which he was travelling as a passenger overturned while on night-time military manoeuvres. At the time the vehicle was on private land and on terrain suitable for tracked vehicles but not wheeled vehicles. He was refused compensation under Spanish law on the ground that the accident had not resulted from "an act classifiable as use of a vehicle". Various questions were referred to the CJEU for preliminary ruling.