# Council Directive 96/53/EC of 25 July 1996 laying down for certain road vehicles circulating within the Community the maximum authorized dimensions in national and international traffic and the maximum authorized weights in international traffic, Article 1

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. This Directive applies to:
(a) the dimensions of motor vehicles in categories M2 and M3 and their trailers in category 0 and motor vehicles in categories N2 and N3 and their trailers in categories 03 and 04, as defined in Annex II to Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ;
(b) the weights and certain other characteristics of the vehicles defined in (a) and specified in Annex I (2) to this Directive.
2. All the values of weights indicated in Annex I are valid as circulation standards and thus refer to loading conditions, not production standards, which will be defined in a later Directive.
3. This Directive shall not apply to articulated buses comprising more than one articulated section.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1996/53/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1996-53/article-1
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