James Firth, Head of Road Freight Regulation Policy at Logistics UK, has responded to the announcement on 21 February that the UK government will not implement an EU ruling known as ‘Vnuk’, that would have required all motor vehicles operating on private land to have motor insurance.

James said, “Implementation of the ‘Vnuk’ ruling into UK law would have been wholly unnecessary; the type of operations that would have been brought into scope by the ruling – for example, the use of forklift trucks – are in most cases covered already by companies’ Public Liability or Employer Liability insurance. Logistics UK is pleased by the government’s decision today, it will prevent many logistics businesses being subject to additional and unnecessary costs and administrative burden.”