{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1072/article-8",
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  "legislation": "eur/2009/1072",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international road haulage market (recast) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1072",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "General principle",
  "text": "1. Any haulier for hire or reward who is a holder of a Community licence and whose driver, if he is a national of a third country, holds an EU driver attestation, shall be entitled, under the conditions laid down in this Chapter, to carry out cabotage operations within the United Kingdom.\n2. Once the goods carried in the course of an incoming international carriage have been delivered, hauliers referred to in paragraph 1 shall be permitted to carry out, with the same vehicle, or, in the case of a coupled combination, the motor vehicle of that same vehicle, up to two cabotage operations following the international carriage from another Member State or from a third country to the United Kingdom. The last unloading in the course of a cabotage operation before leaving the United Kingdom shall take place within 7 days from the last unloading in the United Kingdom in the course of the incoming international carriage.\n...\n3. National road haulage services carried out in the United Kingdom by a non-resident haulier shall only be deemed to conform with this Regulation if the haulier can produce clear evidence of the incoming international carriage and of each consecutive cabotage operation carried out.\nEvidence referred to in the first subparagraph shall comprise the following details for each operation:\n(a) the name, address and signature of the sender;\n(b) the name, address and signature of the haulier;\n(c) the name and address of the consignee as well as his signature and the date of delivery once the goods have been delivered;\n(d) the place and the date of taking over of the goods and the place designated for delivery;\n(e) the description in common use of the nature of the goods and the method of packing, and, in the case of dangerous goods, their generally recognised description, as well as the number of packages and their special marks and numbers;\n(f) the gross mass of the goods or their quantity otherwise expressed;\n(g) the number plates of the motor vehicle and trailer.\n4. No additional document shall be required in order to prove that the conditions laid down in this Article have been met.\n5. Any haulier entitled in the Member State of establishment, in accordance with that Member State’s legislation, to carry out the road haulage operations for hire or reward specified in Article 1(5)(a), (b) and (c) shall be permitted, under the conditions set out in this Chapter, to carry out, as the case may be, cabotage operations of the same kind or cabotage operations with vehicles in the same category.\n6. Permission to carry out cabotage operations, within the framework of the types of carriage referred to in Article 1(5)(d) and (e), shall be unrestricted.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(1) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Licensing of Operators and International Road Haulage (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/708), regs. 1(1), 13(9)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020 (c. 29), ss. 24(3), 40(7); S.I. 2020/1662, reg. 2(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Licensing of Operators and International Road Haulage (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/708), regs. 1(1), 13(9)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(2) omitted (24.12.2022) by virtue of The Drivers’ Hours, Tachographs, International Road Haulage and Licensing of Operators (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1260), regs. 1(1), 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Licensing of Operators and International Road Haulage (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/708), regs. 1(1), 13(9)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/1072/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:08.264947+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."
}