
Article 1 

1. Under the conditions laid down in paragraph 2, Member States shall liberalise the types of international carriage of goods by road for hire or reward and on own account listed in Annex I where such carriage is performed to or from or in transit through their territory.
2. The types of carriage and unladen journeys made in conjunction with the carriage listed in Annex I shall be exempted from Community authorisation and from any carriage authorisation.
Article 2 
This Directive shall not affect the conditions under which any Member State authorises its own nationals to engage in the activities mentioned in this Directive.
Article 3 
The First Council Directive of 23 July 1962 on the establishment of common rules for certain types of carriage of goods by road is hereby repealed, without prejudice to the obligations of the Member States relating to the time-limits for transposition into national law and application of the Directives set out in Annex II, Part B.
References made to the repealed Directive shall be construed as being made to this Directive and should be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex III.
Article 4 
This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 5 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Strasbourg, 12 December 2006.
For the European Parliament
The President
J. BORRELL FONTELLES
For the Council
The President
M. PEKKARINEN
ANNEX I
1. Carriage of mail as a public service.

2. Carriage of vehicles which have suffered damage or breakdown.

3. Carriage of goods in motor vehicles the permissible laden weight of which, including that of trailers, does not exceed six tonnes or the permissible payload of which, including that of trailers, does not exceed 3,5 tonnes.

4. 

((a)) the goods carried must be the property of the undertaking or must have been sold, bought, let out on hire or hired, produced, extracted, processed or repaired by the undertaking;
((b)) the purpose of the journey must be to carry the goods to or from the undertaking or to move them, either inside the undertaking or outside for its own requirements;
((c)) motor vehicles used for such carriage must be driven by employees of the undertaking;
((d)) the vehicles carrying the goods must be owned by the undertaking or have been bought by it on deferred terms or hired provided that in the latter case they meet the conditions of Directive 2006/1/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 January 2006 on the use of vehicles hired without drivers for the carriage of goods by road.
This provision shall not apply to the use of a replacement vehicle during a short breakdown of the vehicle normally used;
((e)) carriage must be no more than ancillary to the overall activities of the undertaking.

5. Carriage of medicinal products, appliances, equipment and other articles required for medical care in emergency relief, in particular for natural disasters.

ANNEX II
PART A

First Council Directive of 23 July 1962 on the establishment of certain common rules for international transport (carrying of goods by road for hire or reward)(OJ 70, 6.8.1962, p. 2005/62) 
Council Directive 72/426/EEC(OJ L 291, 28.12.1972, p. 155) 
Council Directive 74/149/EEC(OJ L 84, 28.3.1974, p. 8) 
Council Directive 77/158/EEC(OJ L 48, 19.2.1977, p. 30) 
Council Directive 78/175/EEC(OJ L 54, 25.2.1978, p. 18) 
Council Directive 80/49/EEC(OJ L 18, 24.1.1980, p. 23) 
Council Directive 82/50/EEC(OJ L 27, 4.2.1982, p. 22) 
Council Directive 83/572/EEC(OJ L 332, 28.11.1983, p. 33) only Article 2
Council Directive 84/647/EEC(OJ L 335, 22.12.1984, p. 72) only Article 6
Council Regulation (EEC) No 881/92(OJ L 95, 9.4.1992, p. 1) only Article 13

PART B

Directive Time-limit for transposition Date of application
First Council Directive of 23 July 1962 on the establishment of certain common rules for international transport (carrying of goods by road for hire or reward) 31 December 1962 
72/426/EEC __ 
74/149/EEC __ 1 July 1974
77/158/EEC 1 July 1977 
78/175/EEC 1 July 1978 
80/49/EEC __ 1 July 1980
82/50/EEC 1 January 1983 
83/572/EEC 1 January 1984 
84/647/EEC 30 June 1986 

ANNEX III

First Council Directive of 23 July 1962 on the establishment of common rules for certain types of carriage of goods by road This Directive
Article 1 Article 1
Article 2 __
Article 3 Article 2
__ Article 3
__ Article 4
Article 4 Article 5
Annex Annex I
__ Annex II
__ Annex III