| Title |
Electrically power-assisted cycles (EPACs) after the European Commission's REFIT review and proposal to Amend Directive 2009/103/EC / |
| Authors |
Shevchenko, Olga |
| ISBN |
9786090702642 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Law 2.0.: new methods, new laws: 7th international conference of PhD students and young researchers, 25-26 April, 2019 : conference papers.. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2019. p. 258-270.. ISBN 9786090702642 |
| Keywords [eng] |
electrically power assisted cycles (EPACs) ; motor third party liability ; Motor Insurance Directive ; technological development |
| Abstract [eng] |
In 21st century technological development never takes a break and progress itself is growing rapidly. The society reacts to the occurrence of new technologies, in particular while the usage of the above-stated technologies ends up in sharp conflicts. Regardless the type of technological product and the area where the latter is allocated, whenever the usage of new technologies produces a conflict it must be the case of a precise and qualitative legal regulation addressing the most accurate solution. In 2018, after the number of changes occurred within the motor insurance sector, European Commission admitted the necessary to include electrically power assisted cycles (EPACs) within the scope of the motor third party liability regulation. The regulation of ebikes in terms of the Motor Insurance Directive would be a wrong step at the European Union level due to the environmental, social, both human and financial resources reasons. At this stage, it is inevitably important to distinguish alternative transport, which must be accurately regulated at the European Union level from the one that shall remain untouched in terms of the legal intervention for the purposes of motor third party liability regulation. High technologies and technological progress are not always connected with inevitable necessity to provide with the legal regulation in particular field. Instead, both human and financial resources should be concentrated on the dimension of areas where conflicts are hardly or even impossible to be solved without imperative intervention of the qualitative legal regulation. |
| Published |
Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2019 |
| Type |
Conference paper |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2019 |
