Province of Drenthe: applying for an exemption from provincial road traffic rules
If you are a road user, you must abide by the traffic rules. The road traffic rules applicable to public roads are set out in the Road Traffic Act 1994.
Do you wish to be exempt from a traffic rule in the Road Traffic Act? Because you are organising an event, you need to carry out work or because a taxi has to drive in a bus lane? You then apply for this exemption with the road manager. You will then be authorised by the manager to drive a tractor on the bicycle path, for example.
In most cases, the road manager is the national government, the province, the water authority or the municipality. Would you like to be exempt from the Traffic Rules and Signs Regulation? If so, ask the Rijkswaterstaat (Department of Waterways and Public Works) or the Centraal Bureau Rijvaardigheidsbewijzen – CBR (Central Office for Motor Vehicle Driver Testing).
Is the province the road manager? Then apply to the province for the exemption.
Is the province not the road manager? Then first check who the manager is and where you should apply for the exemption:
- the national government: the Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management.
- the water authority: the general or executive board of the water authority
- the municipality: the municipal council, mayor and aldermen or a committee set up by the municipality
- exemptions for national roads in accordance with the Regulations on Traffic Rules and Traffic Signs 1990: Rijkswaterstaat
- in the case of vehicle requirements: the Netherlands Vehicle Authority (RDW);
- in the case of car seatbelts and child safety equipment: the Centraal Bureau Rijvaardigheidsbewijzen (CBR)
Questions about this topic?
Contact the Province of Drenthe
Visiting address
Westerbrink 1
9405BJ Assen
| Monday | 8:00 - 17:00 |
| Tuesday | 8:00 - 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 8:00 - 17:00 |
| Thursday | 8:00 - 17:00 |
| Friday | 8:00 - 17:00 |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |