UCI - Ufficio Centrale Italiano

UCI, Ufficio Centrale Italiano, is the National Motor Insurance bureau for the crossborder circulation of motor vehicles. Created in 1953, it covers the functions of Italian bureau within the Green Card System, governed by the Council of Bureaux which was founded in Europe by the Inland Road Transport Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The activity of UCI in Italy is ruled by articles 125 and 126 of Law decree September 7th 2005, nr. 209 (Private Insurance Code). The main task of UCI is to handle the issues connected to the compensation of damages arising from accidents in which the liability of a vehicle registered and insured abroad is involved, when the accident occurred on the territory of Italy, or in the Republic of San Marino or in Vatican City. This activity is performed according to agreements taken with the homologue National Insurance Bureaux in the other Countries of the Green Card System. At present 47 Countries participate to the S...