Motor vehicles and trailers: recognition of the distinguishing sign of the Member state of registration

OBJECTIVE: the proposal for a regulation seeks to facilitate motor travel and the free movement of persons within the Community. SUBSTANCE: the proposal seeks to ensure that Member States which, under Article 37 of the Vienna Convention, required vehicles registered in another Member State to display a distinguishing registration sign when being driven on their territory, also recognize a distinguishing sign conforming to the technical provisions of the Community registration model. The main characteristic of this model was that at the extreme left it included a vertical blue zone with at the top a circle of 12 yellow stars representing the Community flag and underneath the abbreviation for the Member State of registration. �