Court says obligation to reposition car steering wheel illegal

Lithuania and Poland, where cars drive on the right-hand side of the road, have failed to fulfil their EU obligations by requiring, for road safety reasons, passenger cars previously registered in another member state and in which the steering wheel is on the right to reposition the steering system to the left-hand side (Cases C-639/11 and C-61/12). For new cars, such a requirement infringes Directives 2007/46 on vehicle approval and 70/311/EEC on steering equipment for motor vehicles, and for other…