The Department for Transport has laid the European Registers of Road Transport Undertakings (Disclosure of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1202) before Parliament on 19 November 2025, after being made on 17 November. The Regulations take effect on 1 January 2026. Signed by Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Keir Mather, they are made under section 31 and Schedule 5 of the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020.
The instrument implements two decisions of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement’s Specialised Committee on Road Transport. Decision 1/2025 updates categories and seriousness of infringements relevant to an operator’s good repute. Decision 2/2025 sets requirements for national electronic registers and the exchange of information via the European Register of Road Transport Undertakings (ERRU).
From 1 January 2026 the United Kingdom reconnects to ERRU. The Regulations define participating country to include EU Member States and the UK, and specify competent authority as the traffic commissioners in Great Britain and the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. A clean check is introduced as a defined outcome where no infringement is detected.
For goods operators, the national electronic register gains two mandatory data points: the registration numbers of vehicles at the undertaking’s disposal and the undertaking’s risk rating band. These fields must be available to competent authorities during roadside checks, and the time limit to make specified data accessible is reduced from 30 working days to five.
Dataset terminology is aligned. References to a Community licence are expanded to include a UK licence for the Community. Within the transport undertaking category a declaration of Grey, Green, Amber or Red must be recorded to reflect the risk rating band. For transport managers, the register now carries an explicit Valid or Invalid declaration for the certificate of professional competence.
Authorisation fields are revised. A licence type is added for goods transport conducted exclusively at or below 3.5 tonnes. The row for the number of vehicles covered is updated, the note attached to vehicle registration numbers is removed, and numeric code ranges previously used for authorisation status and for reasons for suspension or withdrawal are omitted.
Rules on serious infringements in Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/403 are adapted. The overarching test now also covers conduct that distorts competition in the road transport market. The text clarifies that having in the vehicle or using a fraudulent tachograph device is an infringement and that having or using tampered speed limitation devices is prohibited. A work‑organisation infringement is set out where pay is linked to distance travelled, speed of delivery or quantity of goods carried.
The frequency rules for assessing loss of good repute move from driver‑based to vehicle‑based calculations, with decisions taken by the competent authority rather than by reference to Member States. Annex III on infringements is omitted, with the updated classifications consolidated into the revised annexes.
ERRU interconnection provisions in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/480 are retargeted to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. References to Member State are replaced by participating country throughout. The ERRU function previously titled ERRU Check Community Licence becomes Check Transport Undertaking Data to reflect the broader dataset.
Message specifications are expanded for operational use. Authorities can request the registration numbers of all vehicles managed by an undertaking, and good‑repute checks include additional transport manager fields such as CPC validity. Acknowledgement identifiers are aligned to the legislation, and sanction notifications are standardised from warnings and fines through to immobilisation and temporary or permanent withdrawal of certified copies or licences.
For operators, preparation is immediate. Register entries should list every vehicle registration number for vehicles at the undertaking’s disposal and confirm licence details, including where operations are exclusively at or below 3.5 tonnes. Compliance teams should review tachograph controls, verify speed limiter integrity and remove any remuneration schemes that incentivise speed or distance given the updated work‑organisation offence.
An Explanatory Memorandum and a De Minimis Assessment accompany the instrument on legislation.gov.uk. While the assessment anticipates no significant impact on the private, voluntary or public sector, shorter data deadlines and new vehicle‑level fields may require changes to internal processes, particularly for larger fleets. The Regulations come into force on 1 January 2026.