Order international motor insurance card (green card)

When you’re involved in an accident while driving abroad. The international motor insurance card confirms that you have liability insurance for your car. It isn’t needed in countries bordering Switzerland which have signed up to the license plate agreement. Nevertheless, we recommend keeping an international motor insurance card in your car. 

License plate agreement: In countries that have signed up to the agreement, a car’s license plate is recognized as proof that it’s covered by liability insurance.

Like the international motor insurance card, frontier insurance proves that you’ve taken out liability insurance for the car you’re driving. 

You need to buy it in countries that don’t accept the international motor insurance card and haven’t signed up to the license plate agreement. The premium has to be paid directly at the customs office.

In principle, the  international motor insurance card is valid as long as your liability insurance, but it does have an expiration date. Be sure to check that it’s still valid before you set off. 

You’ll find everything you need to know about the international motor insurance card on the Swiss National Bureau of Insurance website.