2022/0709/S
EC/EFTA
SE Schweden
  • T40T - Stadtverkehr und Strassentransport
2023-01-27
2022-11-02

Lamps, reflectors and signs or equivalent devices for marking wide indivisible loads on vehicles and vehicle combinations that are exempted from width provisions when transporting such loads.

The Swedish Transport Agency's regulations and general advice on transport of wide indivisible loads

The regulations replace older regulations from the Swedish Transport Agency with approximately the same content. They contain provisions that allow transport on roads, which are not private, of wide and long indivisible loads respectively, notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 4, Section 15, first paragraph, of the Road Traffic Ordinance (1998:1276). The exemptions are conditional on the marking of the load with lamps, reflectors and signs and, otherwise, when and where the transport may take place. There is also general advice that complements the regulatory provisions.

The draft does not does not contain provisions that would make a mutual recognition clause relevant.