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Title: Driving a Spanish car in the UK ,or Uk one in EU
Post by Ebrovoice on Apr 14^th, 2009 at 10:02pm

I am not sure if any of you receive this newsletter but this makes daunting reading

http://www.eyeonspain.com/spain-magazine/spanish-car-in-uk.aspx

Or is this the case of the EU law making an ass of things.....

Title: Re: Driving a Spanish car in the UK ,or Uk one in
Post by hazelnut on Apr 15^th, 2009 at 7:41pm

And I am sure they are going to impound a truck which does deliveries to the UK I don't think so!!

Title: Re: Driving a Spanish car in the UK ,or Uk one in
Post by Ebrovoice on Apr 15^th, 2009 at 8:40pm

I await a headline where one of our darling MEP's from Brussels have their cars impounded on home visits.

Aside:- Well maybe tomorrow there will no trucks crossing as they are blocking the Chunnel. They want to let them through and then block them, the foreign one's, on the other side with a polite note to S:O:

Title: Re: Driving a Spanish car in the UK ,or Uk one in
Post by PlanesPete on Jul 23^rd, 2009 at 5:11pm

I've just bashed off letters to my UK MP and MEP. Those with a UK address should follow suit.

Pete.

Title: Re: Driving a Spanish car in the UK ,or Uk one in
Post by Bigyin on Jul 23^rd, 2009 at 8:04pm

Typically ludicrous. Nearly as sensible as spending over a billion quid on electrifying the London Bristol line to save a few minutes.

Title: Re: Driving a Spanish car in the UK ,or Uk one in
Post by cactus jack on Jul 23^rd, 2009 at 9:37pm

Yeah but if I was in Bristol I would want to get out as quick as possible....worth every penny ::)

Title: Re: Driving a Spanish car in the UK ,or Uk one in
Post by PlanesPete on Nov 9^th, 2009 at 6:12pm

I finally got a reply from my MP attaching a statement from Lord Adonis (for Gods sake!). It just restated the governments position. Basically, if a car is used in another EU country and brought back into the UK then it must not be used abroad again within 6 months. Literally, if you made 2 booze cruises to Calais then you could be told that you should re-register your car in France. The obvious contradiction that the vehicle spends the other 364 days of the year in the UK does not compute with moron.gov.uk. Good old Labour with their 3000 new offences. How many have you commited today?