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Legal Requirements Abroad. (Author = Cronkle)

Below is a list of items that are required to be carried in one or other of the countries of Western Europe.

If you were to carry all of the items on the list in your motorhome you would meet the legal requirements of all of the countries in Western Europe and probably Central Europe as well.

Some are obvious such as passports and driving licences others are not quite so.

In France, amongst other countries, you are required to carry proof of ownership or the owner's permission to use the vehicle and evidence that the vehicle complies with your home country's laws.

You are also required to carry evidence of adequate vehicle insurance.

Your lights must not dazzle other road users; the solution being the use of 'beam benders' or masks on the headlights.

Many countries, including France, now require that a person who has to exit their vehicle on a motorway must wear a fluorescent jacket/vest. Many people have now taken to carrying as many of these vests as there are people in their van so that they do not fall foul of these laws.

Carrying a warning triangle that must be displayed 30 Metres to the rear of your vehicle should you break down is now a standard requirement in most European countries and it is recommended that two should be carried in Spain.

Spain also requires that drivers who need corrective glasses should carry a spare set.

If you do not have number plates with the correct GB badge ('GB' below the circle of small gold stars) you will need a GB sticker. The 'GB' number plate is accepted in EU countries and many other European states such as Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Check if this applies to any other non EU state that you are visiting.

If you have a German registered vehicle, a first aid kit is a legal requirement in Germany.

If you have a load, such as bikes on a rack, that protrudes beyond the rear of the vehicle a square, diagonally striped board must be used to mark it in Italy and Spain.

The list includes:

Passports

Driving licence

Vehicle registration documents

Vehicle insurance documents

MOT certificate (if the vehicle requires one)

Tax disc.

Headlamp converters/beam benders

Fluorescent jackets . (with a CE 471 mark)

Spare bulb set

Two warning triangles (with a CE mark)

GB sticker (needed if your number plate does not have the correct badge ie 'GB' surrounded by small gold stars.See notes above)

First aid kit- to DIN 13 164

Alu-signal alongside old plastic version...
Diagonally striped square rear marker board.

Spare prescription glasses for the driver(s)

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