This page gives you an overview of the registration process that comes with a small series or custom trailer within the European Union. Please read this and consider to contact your local office for road registration if needed before ordering a trailer. This way of receiving a registration is specially for small series and custom vehicles. This is only used if 60 or less of the identical vehicles are made a year.
As toEuropean laws a trailer will be qualified as a type "O" meaning "trailer". Small series and custom trailers are being certified within the EU Regulation (EU) 2018/858 article 45 (see link for the whole EU LAW)
What is in Article 45
National individual vehicle approvals
1. Member States may decide to exempt a particular vehicle, whether unique or not, from the obligation to comply
with one or more of the requirements of this Regulation or with one or more of the requirements laid down in the
regulatory acts listed in Annex II, provided that those Member States have imposed relevant alternative requirements.
2. An application for national individual vehicle approval shall be submitted by the owner of the vehicle, the
manufacturer, the manufacturer's representative or the importer.
3. Member States shall not carry out destructive tests to establish whether the vehicle complies with the alternative
requirements referred to in paragraph 1, but shall instead use any relevant information provided by the applicant for
that purpose.
4. For the purpose of a national individual vehicle approval, the approval authority shall accept systems, components
and separate technical units that are type-approved in accordance with the regulatory acts listed in Annex II.
5. A Member State shall issue without delay a national individual vehicle approval certificate where the vehicle
conforms to the description appended to the application and satisfies the relevant alternative requirements.
6. The national individual vehicle approval certificate shall be given a unique number in accordance with
a harmonised numbering system, which shall at least allow for the identification of the Member State which granted the
approval and for the identification of the requirements with which the vehicle conforms.
7. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down the template and the numbering system of the
national individual vehicle approval certificate. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the
examination procedure referred to in Article 83(2). Until such time as the Commission adopts such implementing acts,
Member States may continue to determine the format of national individual vehicle approval certificates.
