Applying for an exemption for traffic rules and road signs
Are you unable to comply with the traffic rules and traffic signs 'including road markings' on a particular road in the Netherlands? For example to carry out your work, or because the place you need to go to is otherwise inaccessible? Then you must apply for an exemption for traffic signs and traffic rules on a public road to the relevant road authority. This usually the national road authority, the province, the regional water authority, or the municipality.
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at your municipality, province, or water authority
The road authority can issue an exemption so that you do not have to follow all the traffic rules on a particular road.
You can get an exemption to, for example:
- carry out work, for example laying cables or pipelines
- use a road where the vehicle is not actually allowed to drive (for instance if you are a farmer and can only reach your field or meadow via a public cycle path, or you are a taxi driver who has to drive on a bus lane)
- organise an event
You apply for the exemption to the road authority. For provincial roads this is the province, for national roads this is Rijkswaterstaat, and for local roads you apply for the exemption to the municipal authority. For many roads and cycle paths outside built-up areas you apply to the regional water authority.