Closed call for evidence

Dual marking vehicles under the GB type-approval scheme

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 18 December 2025

This was published under the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

Summary

Understanding the barriers to dual marking GB scheme approved vehicles and how these barriers may be reduced or removed.

This call for evidence ran from
18 December 2025 to 11:59pm on 12 February 2026

Call for evidence description

Motor vehicles must be approved before sale to demonstrate they meet the relevant environmental, safety and security requirements.

Vehicles must be approved both in GB and the EU to be sold UK wide. This is due to the Windsor Framework which applies EU vehicle approval regulations in Northern Ireland (NI).

We are aware that some manufacturers are choosing not to mark vehicles approved under both schemes with the EU approval number, preventing their sale in NI.

We want to understand why this is happening and what can be done to ensure all vehicles sold in the UK are dual marked.

Documents

Dual marking vehicles under the GB type-approval scheme

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Letter: an explicit presumption in favour of alignment

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Published 18 December 2025