2023/0732/SE
EC/EFTA
SE Schweden
  • T40T - Stadtverkehr und Strassentransport
2024-03-19
2023-12-22

Lamps, reflectors and signs or equivalent devices for marking long vehicles, vehicle combinations and longindivisible loads on vehicles and vehicle combinations exempted from length provisions during road transport.

The Swedish Transport Agency's general advice on exemptions for journeys with long vehicles, vehiclecombinations, or long indivisible loads;

General advice – directed at the Swedish Transport Administration and municipalities in their capacity asroad management authorities – which provides general recommendations to be applied in connection with saidentities granting exemptions for road transport with long vehicles, vehicle combinations, and long indivisibleloads. The advice is largely in line with the rules laid down in TSFS 2023:37, which concern the road transportof long indivisible loads that may take place without an exemption from the road management authorities.

This general advice replaces the Swedish Road Administration’s general advice (VVFS 2004:142) onexemptions from the provisions on the length of vehicles or vehicle combinations and the Swedish TransportAgency’s general advice (TSFS 2009:62) on exemptions for journeys with long vehicles.
The draft does not include a mutual recognition clause, as it does not contain any provisions that would makesuch a clause relevant.
The draft relates to Council Directive 96/53/EC, but does not go beyond the obligations arising from thatDirective.