{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1998-2411/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1998-2411/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1998/2411",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 2411/98 of 3 November 1998 on the recognition in intra-Community traffic of the distinguishing sign of the Member State in which motor vehicles and their trailers are registered",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1998-2411",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation:\n1..‘distinguishing sign of the Member State of registration’ shall mean a set composed of one to three letters in Latin capitals indicating the Member State in which the vehicle is registered;\n2..“vehicle” means any power-driven vehicle, including its trailer if any, which is normally used for:\n— carrying persons or goods by road, or\n— for drawing on the road vehicles used for the carriage of persons or goods,\nbut does not include vehicles, such as agricultural or forestry tractors, which are only incidentally used for such purposes, vehicles which run on rails or mobile machinery.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 2(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Road Vehicles (Registration, Registration Plates and Excise Exemption) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1295), regs. 1(2), 5(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1998/2411/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:58:06.631992+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}