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This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 28 July 2003. For the Commission Frederik Bolkestein Member of the Commission (1) OJ L 103, 2.5.1972, p. 1. (2) OJ L 129, 19.5.1990, p. 33. (3) OJ L 177, 5.7.1991, p. 25. (4) OJ L 16, 25.1.1993, p. 1. (5) OJ L 343, 13.12.1997, p. 25. (6) OJ L 33, 6.2.1999, p. 25. (7) OJ L 57, 27.2.2001, p. 56. ANNEX APPENDIX Agreement between the national insurers' bureaux of the Member States of the European Economic Area and other Associate States PREAMBLE Having regard to the 72/166/EEC Directive of the Council of 24 April 1972 (First Directive relating to motor insurance) which provides that national insurers' bureaux of the Member States shall conclude between themselves an agreement under which each national insurers' bureau shall guarantee settlement of claims occurring in its territory and caused by the use of vehicles normally based in the territory of another Member State, whether or not such vehicles are insured, in accordance with the requirements of its national law on compulsory insurance, Having regard to the fact that the aforesaid Directive provides that vehicles normally based in a third country shall be treated as vehicles normally based in the Community if the national insurers' bureaux of all Member States severally guarantee - each in accordance with the provisions of its own national law on compulsory insurance - settlement of claims in respect of accidents occurring in their territory caused by the use of such vehicles, Having regard to the fact that, by application of these provisions, the national insurers' bureaux of the Member States and the national insurers' bureaux of other States have concluded several agreements aiming at satisfying the prescriptions of the Directive and that these bureaux have subsequently decided to substitute for them one single agreement known as The Multilateral Guarantee Agreement between National Insurers' Bureaux signed in Madrid on 15 March 1991, Having regard to the fact that, at the General Assembly held in Rethymno (Crete) on 30 May 2002, the Council of Bureaux decided to incorporate all provisions of the Uniform Agreement between Bureaux and of the Multilateral Guarantee Agreement between National Insurers' Bureaux governing the relations between Bureaux into a single document known as Internal Regulations, The undersigned Bureaux have concluded the following agreement: