The Goods Vehicles (International Road Transport Permits and Haulage Within the EU) Regulations 2024

Limit on number of journeys within the EU

21.—(1) The operator of a goods vehicle must not use it to make any laden journey between or within member States (“member State journey”) unless—

(a) the member State journey follows a laden journey from the United Kingdom to a member State,

(b) the member State journey is of a type listed in paragraph (2), and

(c) the vehicle has not left the territory of the European Union, except as part of a member State journey of a type listed in paragraph (2).

(2) The listed member State journeys are—

(a) if—

(i) the operator is a Northern Ireland operator, and

(ii) the laden journey from the United Kingdom to a member State is from Northern Ireland to Ireland,

up to two laden journeys within Ireland that occur within the period of seven days beginning with the day after the day on which the last unloading of goods on the laden journey from Northern Ireland to Ireland occurs;

(b) in the case of a use other than that mentioned in sub-paragraph (a), one laden journey within the member State that occurs within the period of seven days beginning with the day after the day on which the last unloading of goods on the laden journey from the United Kingdom to that member State occurs;

(c) if the vehicle has been used for one laden journey within the member State as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b), one laden journey between member States;

(d) if the vehicle has not been used for one laden journey within the member State as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b), up to two laden journeys between member States.

(3) In this regulation—

“Northern Ireland operator” means an operator who has—

(a)

a licence issued to the operator under the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010, or

(b)

no such licence, but has in Northern Ireland their principal place of business;

“within Ireland” means, in relation to a journey, the journey from a location in Ireland to another location in Ireland regardless of whether the journey is through Northern Ireland.