Mark and Eddie hi,
I can not speak for France or the UK but supposedly all European Union
countries now apply the same rules and laws as specified under the common EU
directives for road going vehicles and their specifications.
So what applies here in Greece is that no vehicle is supposed to have any
kind of increase of more than 5 cm on its factory specified dimensions.
Bullbars or additional/reinforced bumpers are only allowed if they have a
specific type approval for the vehicle they are mounted on and ONLY if the
importer of the vehicle or the additional equipment (bullbar in our case)
has filed a special notification of the type approval to the competent
authorities (more precisely the Ministry of Transport and the MoT central
authotiry for vehicular technical inspections. Those two authorities have to
afterwards notify the Road and Highway Police so that they do not give
tickets to drivers of vehicles fitted with those "improvements")
Our club's advise to all owners of Land Rover vehicles with bullbars is to
ALWAYS carry with them a copy of the type approval or the protocoled type
approval notification filed by the importer of the vehicle or the bullbar
with them so that they do not have a ticket issued to them in case of a road
check or when they pass their MoT.
I have had a very serious court case against me because of the bullbar
fitted on my genuine 1994 evented Camel Trophy Discovery 200Tdi which was
finally won because I had a letter from the central LR legal and technical
departments specifying that CT vehicles were FACTORY fitted with the bullbar
and other equipment and had type approval when they were issued their road
registration number plates in the UK.
Hope this helps
Take care
Pantelis Giamarellos
LAND ROVER CLUB OF GREECE
"MVP" <mr.nice@*nospam*softhome.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:31:20 +0000 (UTC), "Eddie Green"
> <ed.green@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> >Can someone tell me the present law regarding Bull Bars, A Frames, etc.
Are
> >they permitted on new vehicles? to be fitted to existing vehicles ? and
what
> >about in France, is there any legislation there.
> >Thanks.
> >Eddie Green.
> >
>
> I've seen them fitted on new land rovers (defenders), proper ones too
> not those plastic ones, so they must be legal, I don't know if you
> have to prove some kind of need or not but as both are freely
> available from many accessories dealers I can only assume that people
> are buying them therefor they are legal and proper.
>
> I'm sure someone who knows what they are talking about will be along
> promptly, and if someone can quote some legislation etc then I'll make
> a page for it on my website as it's worth info in my view.
>
>
> Regards.
> Mark.
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