http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/331/introductionMotor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000VehiclesEuropean UnionMotor industryEUROPEAN COMMUNITIESROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLESStatute Law Database2026-06-22Expert Participation2008-05-20 Council Directive 72/166/EEC (O.J. No. L103, 2.5.72, p. 2), as modified by Council Directives 84/5/EEC (O.J. No. L8, 11.1.84, p. 17) and 90/232/EEC (O.J. No. L129, 19.5.90, p. 33) requires a Member State to take all appropriate measures to ensure that civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles normally based in its territory is covered by insurance. 2000 No. 331 Made 31st October 2000 Coming into operation 14th December 2000 The Department of the Environment, being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to compulsory insurance in respect of, and other means of providing for, civil liability in relation to motor vehicles and trailers, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section, and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations: By the European Communities (Designation) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/1811) 1972 c. 68; by virtue of section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51), section 1(2) of that Act is amended to enable regulations to be made under section 2(2) to implement obligations of the United Kingdom arising under the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 (Cm 2073) and a Protocol adjusting the Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th May 1994 (Cm 2183)