30In view of this, the Court held that the aim of protecting victims pursued by the First, Second and Third Directives, as has been pointed out in paragraph 27 of this judgment, requires the legal position of the owner of the vehicle, present in the vehicle at the time of the accident as a passenger, to be the same as that of any other passenger who is a victim of the accident (Candolin and Others, paragraph 33). Likewise, it held that that aim also precludes national rules from restricting unduly the concept of passenger covered by insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles, by excluding from that concept persons who were on board a part of a vehicle which is not designed for their carriage and equipped for that purpose (see, to that effect, Farrell, paragraphs 28 to 30).