
Article 1 
This Regulation shall apply to vehicles registered in the Member States that are driven within the  United Kingdom.
Article 2 
For the purposes of this Regulation:

1.. ‘distinguishing sign of the Member State of registration’ shall mean a set composed of one to three letters in Latin capitals indicating the Member State in which the vehicle is registered;
2.. “vehicle” means any power-driven vehicle, including its trailer if any, which is normally used for:

 — carrying persons or goods by road, or
 — for drawing on the road vehicles used for the carriage of persons or goods,but does not include vehicles, such as agricultural or forestry tractors, which are only incidentally used for such purposes, vehicles which run on rails or mobile machinery.
Article 3 
The United Kingdom shall recognise the distinguishing sign of the Member State of registration displayed on the extreme left of the registration plate of a vehicle in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation as being equivalent to any other distinguishing sign that it recognises for the purpose of identifying the State in which the vehicle is registered.
Article 4 
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...Done at Brussels, 3 November 1998.
For the Council
The President
B. PRAMMER
ANNEX
