Travel Abroad in June
We travel to France for 6 weeks on 30th May. We read advice some weeks ago and found we needed a green card (which we now have at no cost from our car insurer), and an IDP license. This morning we've been told, by CC we don't need either as it's October we will be leaving the EU. We thought there was a chance we could leave in June, so thought we needed the IDP. According to the BBC that if a deal is ratified we could leave earlier. Now the chances of that happening are pretty remote but we think, to be sure that we'll still get an IDP. What are others, in the same boat as us, if you'll pardon the pun, going to do?
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It's largely a personality thing. Those who are belt and braces people will have all those papers now, plus a CritAir sticker too, and those of us who aren't won't bother till Brexit eventually happens and then the transition period or implementation phase unwinds.
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We are going to France in June, just for a week. We got the IDP before the Brexit deal fell apart, but haven't got a Green Card as our insurer wouldn't issue one more than two weeks before our trip. We're just going to leave it now unless we hear to the contrary. We don't appear to need a Crit Air sticker so not bothering with that either. I feel it's a case of get on with the trip - nothing that bad can happen as there will be a grace period anyway.
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We are going July/August and I’m not bothering. Can you really imagine a situation where tens of thousands of holiday makers are abroad and we left the EU and the next day the new rules were initiated. If we leave with a deal there is a transition period of 2 years.
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The need for an IDP is only in the case of us leaving the EU without some sort of deal. If we leave with a deal the current arrangements stay in place until something like 2021. Given that our current driving licence is the same Europe wide I don't quite understand why you would need anything else as its easily recognised by the police across all EU countries. Personally I would not be confident that a scrappy bit of paper would be understood any better? If it makes you more comfortable to have one it is only a small investment.
David
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