Agricultural vehicles

As a general rule, tractors must be registered in the Register of Motor Vehicles. However, there are two exceptions that mean that many tractors are not to be registered for ordinary use.

These tractors are not required to be registered in the Register of Motor Vehicles:

• Tractors which are predominantly used for off-road purposes as traction or propulsion for work equipment and if the tractor is only used for certain delimited types of on-road driving.
  These tractors are not required to be registered for ordinary use, but for the following special use: ‘Only approved for forestry, agriculture and horticulture’:
• Tractors belonging to an owner or a user of an agricultural, horticultural or forestry estate and which are used for:
  • transport of work equipment between parts of an agricultural, horticultural or forestry estate;
  • transport of products coming from or intended for use in an agricultural, horticultural or forestry estate to or from such an estate or between parts thereof.

Approved tractors are required to have number plates.

Motor implements must be registered in the Register of Motor Vehicles if they are designed and used for goods transport and this design is not necessary for operation of the motor implement.
These motor implements are not required to be registered in the Register of Motor Vehicles:

• Motor implements not designed and used for goods transport.
• Motor implements designed and used for goods transport, where such design and use are necessary for operation of the motor implement.

Agricultural motor implements are therefore most often not required to be registered, as they are rarely designed and used for goods transport where the design is not necessary for operation of the implement.

Trailers must be registered in the Register of Motor Vehicles if they are pulled by vehicles that require registration in the Register of Motor Vehicles.

A trailer is not required to be registered in the Register of Motor Vehicles if it is only pulled by a vehicle that is not required to be registered.

Trailers pulled by an agricultural vehicle will therefore often not require registration.

Trailer equipment must be registered with the Register of Motor Vehicles if it can be pulled at more than 30 km/h.
Such trailer equipment is most often not required to be registered in the Register of Motor Vehicles:

• field drums;
• seeders;
• green harvesters.

Agricultural trailers are therefore often not required to be registered.