13The preambles to the directives show that their aim is firstly to ensure the free movement of vehicles normally based on Community territory and of persons travelling in those vehicles, and secondly of guaranteeing that the victims of accidents caused by those vehicles receive comparable treatment irrespective of where in the Community the accident has occurred (see more particularly the fifth recital in the preamble to the Second Directive and the fourth recital in the preamble to the Third Directive).
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