Carta Verde
Published 3 November 2026, 17:05
Carta Verde (green card) — insurance certificate
A document confirming that a vehicle is insured, recognised in the countries of the green card system. The insurer sends it as an ordinary A4 sheet; there is no plastic card. You no longer need to display it on the windscreen, and an electronic certificate counts the same as a paper one.
Where you come across it. Roadside document checks, driving abroad, an accident involving a foreign-registered car.
Accidents in Portugal involving foreign-registered cars are handled by the Portuguese green card bureau at the insurers' association. An accident abroad involving a car from the EU can be settled at home, as every European insurer has a claims representative in every EU country.
Official website: consumidor.asf.com.pt/seguro-autom%C3%B3vel-1