The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: land vehicle liability compulsory insurance act of making road transport owners civil liability compulsory insurance Act (Republic of Latvia Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1997, no. 8) the following amendments: 1. Express article 1 the following paragraph 13: "13) third party: any natural or legal person to whom the road traffic accident has caused personal injury or economic and due claims. This law, article 33, third and fourth in the cases referred to in the third person considered a traffic accident was caused by the vehicle owner or authorized user. "
2. Supplement article 4 with the second part as follows: "(2) if the vehicle is removed from the records and with it cross the border, a type of insurance contract, the determining factor is the last country in which the vehicle has been registered; If the vehicle is new, never registered — manufacturer's country. "
3. To make article 6 the first subparagraph by the following: "(1) the complex contract is an insurance contract that is concluded with a producer of agricultural products, lawfully registered farm or its owner or incorporated companies in agriculture, owning a number of vehicles subject to vehicle owners civil liability compulsory insurance. Such a contract may be concluded for no more than five vehicles, of which only one can be a lightweight passenger car. "
4. Turn off the article 11, first paragraph, second sentence.
5. in article 12: to supplement the first part with point 6 and 7 by the following: "6) stolen, lost, or damaged had died in a complex insurance contracts;
7) error policy reported data. ";
to make the fourth subparagraph by the following: "(4) the termination of the contract, the policyholder shall be entitled to the bonus part, which corresponds to: 1) bonus share for the full months remaining of the written submission of the application the date of insurance contract expiration, minus 10 percent, if the contract is terminated due to the first paragraph of this article 5, paragraph 1, or the second part contains the conditions and if not for the contract of insurance applied for reimbursement of costs as well as if the contract is terminated due to the first paragraph of this article 6 the conditions listed in paragraph;
2) part of the premium not used for the remainder of the period, counted from the day of submission of the application in writing, if the contract is terminated due to the first paragraph of this article, paragraph 7 contains the conditions. ';
turn off the fifth paragraph, the words "or pārjaunošan";
to make the seventh subparagraph by the following: "(7) Likvidējot to the legal person who is the owner of the vehicle and which is the successor in title, or a modification of the legal person's name only, the contract is terminated in accordance with the fourth paragraph of this article, the conditions of paragraph 2 and is closed to new contract."
6. To express the third subparagraph of article 19, the following wording: "(3) fine for driving without insured civil liability of the owner of the dwelling in the State budget."
7. Make the text of article 23 by the following: "(1) the loss due to the victim's treatment is a cost associated with the delivery of the victim, placing, maintenance, Diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation and treatment institutions, victim care, therapeutic diet, home treatment and prosthetics.
(2) expenditure related to the victim for treatment abroad is reimbursed if the treatment agreed upon with the insurer or the traffic Office. "
8. Replace article 24, paragraph 1, the words "social services money allocated costs in the form of the State social insurance budget" with the words "and the money allocated to sickness benefits".
9. Express article 25, third and fourth subparagraph by the following: "(3) If a person studying higher education institutions in the presence of a permanent loss of capacity, can not continue training onsite, the insurer or the traffic Office pays the training of the Republic of Latvia accredited higher education institutions in the presence not until a person reaches 24 years of age.
(4) If the person is a permanent loss of capacity, it is possible to learn a new profession, one aimed at generating revenue from work that is consistent with the current state of health, the insurer or the traffic Office pays the professional training that meets the grade education, one person was injured in a road accident at the moment. This costs the insurer or the traffic Office, in agreement with the victim. "
10. Express article 26, fifth subparagraph by the following: "(5) the funeral expenses of the insurer's liability limit amount refunded on presentation of the original death certificate."
11. Article 27: make the first part of paragraph 2 as follows: "2) due to the way the road structures, buildings and premises or destruction;"
turn off the first part of paragraph 4, the words "or bringing them medical institution".
12. Supplement article 28 to the text by the following: "to the vehicle owner or entitled to residence of the user who ran the vehicle in road traffic, at the time of, or repair to the place of the Latvian territory. If the offence in connection with inquiries or other reasons, the vehicle is required to park in a nearby parking lot, the loss also included expenditure on evacuation of the vehicle to the parking lot and parking fees for services. "
13. Article 33: to complement the second subparagraph following the words "loss" wrongdoer "victim";
to supplement the article with a new third and fourth subparagraph by the following: "(3) If the accident was caused by more than one person, thus causing losses, mutual insurers for claims for each victim be paid based on each driver's fault.
(4) If it is not possible to establish a road traffic accident involving the vehicle owner or authorized user of the degree of fault, loss is indemnified, assuming that the degree of fault is equal. ";
consider the third part of the fifth.
14. To supplement the law with article 33.1 of the following: ' article 20.6. Damages, if they are committed with the trailer (semi-trailer) or with another hard coupling to the tow vehicle (1) if the loss suffered by the trailer (semi-trailer) or with another hard coupling to the tow vehicle road traffic accident was at the time of the coupling with a tractor or other towing vehicle, the victim claims paid by insurers that insured towing tractor or other vehicle owner's civil liability.
(2) if the loss suffered by the trailer (semi-trailer), road accident is not found in the coupling with a tractor or other towing vehicle, the victim claims paid by insurers that insured the trailer (semi-trailer) owner civil liability. "
15. Express article 34 paragraph 2 by the following: "2) road traffic accidents caused by a vehicle owner's or authorized user's person and property damages, except for article 33, third and fourth instances referred to."
16. the express article 40 paragraph 1 first subparagraph as follows: "1) road traffic accidents caused by driving the vehicle if it: (a) a vehicle being driven) alcohol, drugs, or other intoxicating psihotoksisk substances, b) conducted the vehicle without the right to drive a vehicle of the category concerned, c) after a traffic accident left the scene in an arbitrary manner or avoided in the making of alcoholic beverages, drugs, or other intoxicating substances affect the checks or infringement of this substance use after the traffic accident to the declaratory action for inspection;".
17. off the third subparagraph of article 44, paragraph 4, the words "the fines and collected".
18. Replace article 48, second paragraph, the words "and within three working days, send it for review to the Office of traffic" with the words "the Latvian Code of administrative offences specified in the order".
19. the express article 49 the third paragraph as follows: "(3) If the test found that upon departure from Latvia, the owner of the vehicle is not insured for civil liability, penalty the Latvian Code on administrative offences. Further movement of the vehicle across the border only after payment of the fine. "
20. To make article 50 the fourth paragraph as follows: "(4) By traffic Office or at the request of the insurer traffic police traffic Office or present the insurer with the information about traffic accidents and issue a statement about the accident, but, if necessary, to ensure the opportunity to receive the corresponding traffic accidents made copies of the documents."
21. transitional provisions be supplemented with points 7 and 8 as follows:

"7. This law article 14, first subparagraph, the rules are not applicable to international civil liability compulsory insurance contracts (green cards).
8. This law, articles 16 and 17 shall not apply to international civil liability compulsory insurance contracts (green cards) that are not in the territory of Latvia. "
The Parliament adopted the law on 20 December 1999.
Riga, 10 January 2000, the State President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga V.