Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations consolidate with amendments the Regulations specified in Schedule 1 (see regulation 2). They modify the requirements of The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 (“the 1995 Act”) as to operators’ licences in relation to certain foreign goods vehicles and Northern Ireland goods vehicles.
In addition to minor and drafting amendments, the principal changes are:—
(a)the exemption provided for foreign goods vehicles with Community cabotage authorisations (regulation 7(1)) from the requirement in section 2(1) of the 1995 Act to obtain an operator’s licence for the carriage of goods in Great Britain on an international journey has been extended to own account operators in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No. 792/94 of 8th April 1994, which lays down detailed rules for the application to road haulage operators on own account of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3118/93 of 25th October 1993 laying down the conditions under which non-resident carriers may operate national road haulage services within a Member State;
(b)an exemption is made from the requirement in section 2(1) of the 1995 Act is provided for the following goods vehicles: Faroese (regulation 14); Estonian (regulation 15); Latvian (regulation 18); Lithuanian (regulation 19); Moroccan (regulation 21); and Ukrainian (regulation 30);
(c)exemptions made for Finnish and Swedish goods vehicles have been deleted to take account of the application of Council Regulation No. 881/92 of 26th March 1992 to Finland and Sweden following the accession of these countries to the European Community.