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Road transport and inland waterways — border controls
Road transport and inland waterways — border controls
Road transport and inland waterways — border controls
The regulations abolish controls performed by EU countries of compliance with rules in the fields of road and inland waterway transport at the internal borders of the EU. To ensure the free movement within the EU of the vehicles and vessels concerned, these controls are no longer to be performed as border controls but solely as part of the normal control procedures applied in a non-discriminatory fashion throughout the territory of the EU countries.
United Kingdom withdrawal from the EU
Since the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU on 31 January 2020, the border between the United Kingdom and the EU countries is no longer an internal border. However, during the transition period, while EU laws have still applied to and within the United Kingdom, this border was treated like an internal border. From the beginning of 2021, both the abovementioned regulations no longer apply to that border. The control of UK vehicles and vessels will henceforth be subject to Regulation (EEC) No 3912/92 and will no longer be subject to Regulation (EC) No 1100/2008.
See also:
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3912/92 of 17 December 1992 on controls carried out within the Community in the field of road and inland waterway transport in respect of means of transport registered or put into circulation in a third country (OJ L 395, 31.12.1992, pp. 6-7)
Regulation (EC) No 1100/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on the elimination of controls performed at the frontiers of Member States in the field of road and inland waterway transport (Codified version) (OJ L 304, 14.11.2008, pp. 63-69)
last update 27.11.2020