This chapter is not about memorising signs. It is about the SYSTEM they sit in: which kinds of traffic sign Dutch law recognises, which sign beats which, how far a sign reaches, what the little plate underneath does to it, and how to read a sign you have never seen before.
If you came here from another country, this is the part that saves you. Dutch signs are not the ones you grew up with, but they are organised, and the organisation is simple. The letter of the code tells you the subject. The shape tells you whether the sign warns you or binds you. The colour tells you whether it forbids or permits. And its place in the order of authority tells you whether this sign governs your situation at all. Almost every mistake on this topic is a system mistake, not a memory mistake: a right-hand-rule answer where a sign stands, a zone ended too early, a plate that went unread.
What the law calls a traffic sign
The Dutch word «verkeersteken» is an umbrella. It covers three things at once: the boards beside the road, the traffic lights, and the markings painted on the road surface. Chapter III of the RVV treats them together — which is exactly why shark's teeth work just as hard as a metal sign, with no sign present at all.
The core duty is art. 62: «Weggebruikers zijn verplicht gevolg te geven aan de verkeerstekens die een gebod of verbod inhouden» — road users must obey traffic signs that contain an order or a prohibition. Note the word road users, the widest word the law has. Art. 1 defines it as «voetgangers, fietsers, bromfietsers, bestuurders van een gehandicaptenvoertuig, van een motorvoertuig of van een tram, ruiters, geleiders van rij- of trekdieren of vee en bestuurders van een bespannen of onbespannen wagen» — so pedestrians are bound by signs too. The narrower word «bestuurders», drivers, is defined in the same article as «alle weggebruikers behalve voetgangers»: everyone except pedestrians, which puts the cyclist among the drivers.
Every sign lives in Bijlage 1, the annex to the RVV, ordered into series by a letter and a number. That annex is the only official source of a sign's meaning.
The order of authority
Always look for the SOURCE of the rule first, and only then for the answer. There are three levels.
At the top is an instruction given by a person. Art. 84 is a single sentence: «Aanwijzingen gaan boven verkeerstekens en verkeersregels» — instructions override signs and rules. A green light plus an officer signalling you to stop means stop.
Below that come the traffic signs. Art. 63: «Verkeerstekens gaan boven verkeersregels, voor zover deze regels onverenigbaar zijn met deze tekens» — signs override the rules, but only in so far as the rules are incompatible with them. The words «voor zover» carry the weight. Whatever does not clash with the sign simply keeps applying: a priority sign says nothing about your speed, and a speed sign says nothing about your priority.
Within the signs there are three refinements.
- Art. 64: «Verkeerslichten gaan boven verkeerstekens die de voorrang regelen.» Lights beat only the signs that govern PRIORITY. Green does not lift a no-entry sign and does not lift a turning ban.
- Art. 63a: temporary markings applied to the road surface beat the permanent markings in the same place, in so far as the two are incompatible. At road works you follow the yellow lines, not the white ones underneath.
- Art. 63b sits outside the priority chapter and deals only with speed. If a sign shows a higher speed than the special maximum that applies to your own vehicle, the lowest indicated speed counts. The same holds between a roadside board and an electronic gantry sign: the lower indication wins.
At the bottom sit the ordinary traffic rules, such as art. 15: «Op kruispunten verlenen bestuurders voorrang aan voor hen van rechts komende bestuurders» — give way to traffic coming from your right. That rule only gets its turn when nothing above it applies.
Exam situation: the light is flashing amber at a junction that also has a priority sign. Art. 75: «Geel knipperlicht betekent: gevaarlijk punt; voorzichtigheid geboden» — flashing amber means a hazardous spot, take care. It does not allocate priority at all, so priority falls back on the sign, not on the right-hand rule.
Shape, colour and the letter of the series
You read an unfamiliar sign from three things at once.
The LETTER of the code gives the subject: A speed, B priority, C road closure, D compulsory direction, E parking and stopping, F other orders and bans, G traffic rules (the regime of a type of road), H built-up area, J warning, K direction signing, L information.
The SHAPE gives the kind of duty: a triangle pointing up warns — that is the whole of series J, with the single exception of B03, B04 and B05, which use the same shape and also allocate priority; a round sign orders or forbids, a rectangle informs. The octagon of B07 and the downward triangle of B06 are the only two shapes with a single sign each — deliberately, so that you recognise them from far away and from behind. Shape and colour narrow the search; the last word always belongs to Bijlage 1.
The COLOUR gives the direction of travel: red in the rim or across the symbol forbids, blue with a white symbol orders or permits, blue with a white panel informs, and yellow belongs to temporary situations and road works.
Even two of the three usually get you to the right answer. A01 is round with a red rim and therefore binding; the similar-looking A04 is blue and rectangular and therefore advice. The same difference separates a prohibitory sign from a mandatory one: the first is round with red, the second is round and blue.
How far a sign reaches
A sign you have read is not yet a sign you have understood: you also need to know where it stops.
The default is from the sign to its matching end sign or to a sign that replaces it — and in practice no further than the next junction. If the rule continues beyond the junction, the sign is repeated there; that is why you see A01 again after every side road, and why a parking or stopping ban ends at the junction when no further sign stands. The exception is the zone, which runs straight through junctions — see art. 66 below. Beyond that the law has three special cases.
Art. 65 can limit a sign to part of the road. Where a road is divided into lanes, the application of a sign may be limited to one or more lanes: the number above your lane is yours, the one above the lane beside you is not. The same article says about parking signs: «De verkeersborden E1, E2 en E3 van bijlage I gelden slechts voor de zijde van de weg alwaar zij zijn geplaatst.» A parking ban on the far side of the street is not your ban.
Art. 66 governs the word «zone» above a sign. If an area indication is added, then «geldt het verkeersbord in het aldus aangeduide gebied» — it applies in that area. If there is no such indication, the zone runs from the sign to the matching end sign. The trap is junctions: a zone does NOT stop at the first side street, because only the end sign ends it.
The plate underneath decides
Art. 67 gives the supplementary plate three possible roles: «een nadere uitleg van het verkeersbord», a further explanation; a restriction to particular road users where the plate carries symbols only; and, with the word «uitgezonderd», the opposite: «het verkeersbord geldt niet voor de aldus aangeduide weggebruikers of het aldus aangeduide verkeersgedrag». Symbols on a plate mean the same as they do in the annex.
That makes the smallest board the most dangerous one: it can switch the sign off for you entirely, or make it apply to you alone. A speed sign with a lorry symbol underneath does not concern your car. The very same sign with «uitgezonderd» in front of that symbol concerns you and not the lorry.
Series A — speed
A01 — maximum speed. From this sign you may not go faster than the number, and the sign replaces the default speed that would otherwise apply. A02 ends it, and without A02 it stops at the next junction — if the sign is repeated after it, the number carries on. The end puts the statutory default back, which is no free pass: art. 20 then applies inside the built-up area, with 50 km per hour for motor vehicles, or art. 21 outside it, with 130 km per hour on motorways, 100 km per hour on expressways and 80 km per hour on other roads. A03 is the same number on an electronic gantry sign.
A04 — advisory speed. Blue, rectangular, and legally a different animal: it is not a maximum and it does not change the statutory speed. What does bind you is art. 19: «De bestuurder moet in staat zijn zijn voertuig tot stilstand te brengen binnen de afstand waarover hij de weg kan overzien en waarover deze vrij is» — you must be able to stop within the distance you can see to be clear. A05 ends the advice.
A speed rule of its own belongs to the erf, the Dutch home zone. Art. 45: «Bestuurders mogen binnen een erf niet sneller rijden dan 15 km per uur.»
Exam situation: a sign shows 100 and you are driving a lorry. Art. 63b lets the sign lower your speed but not raise it above the special maximum for your own vehicle, and for a lorry that maximum is 80 km per hour. The lowest indication counts, so that is your speed.
Series B — priority
B01 — priority road: you have priority at every junction for as long as this sign applies, until B02 marks its end.
B03, B04 and B05 — priority junction. Careful, this is the classic trap: these are NOT empty warnings. They say that YOU have priority at the NEXT junction, the thick line being your road and the thin lines the side roads. So the difference from B01 is not "real" versus "warning" — it is the whole road versus one junction. Having priority here is no guarantee: approach the junction at a speed that lets you react to someone who does not see your priority.
B06 — give way to drivers on the intersecting road. You need not stop: if that road is clear you may drive on.
B07 — stop; give way to drivers on the intersecting road. Two duties at once, and the duty to stop is unconditional: the wheels must come to rest even at an empty junction.
On the road surface the markings do the same work with no sign at all. Art. 80: «Haaientanden hebben de volgende betekenis: de bestuurders moeten voorrang verlenen aan bestuurders op de kruisende weg» — shark's teeth mean give way to the intersecting road. Art. 79 only says WHERE you stop: «Bestuurders moeten voor een voor hen bestemde stopstreep stoppen, indien stoppen op grond van dit besluit is verplicht.» The stop line does not create the duty; a red light, B07 or an officer's instruction does.
Series C — road closures
Art. 1 defines a geslotenverklaring as «verbod de betrokken weg in te rijden of in te gaan alsmede de betrokken weg te gebruiken». It is more than "no entry": using the road is banned as well, including when you joined it from a side street.
C01 closes the road in both directions to nearly all traffic; pedestrians are not covered.
C02 closes one direction of a one-way street; at the other end you will find C03 or C04. C05 does the reverse and confirms that entry here is in fact allowed.
C06 to C16 close the road to a CATEGORY: C07 to lorries, C11 to motorcycles, C12 to all motor vehicles, C15 to cycles, mopeds and disabled vehicles, C16 to pedestrians. C17 to C21 close it on a MEASUREMENT — length, width, height, axle load and total mass. C22 covers certain dangerous goods.
C22e — low-emission zone or zero-emission zone. On its own this sign says nothing concrete: what exactly is banned is written on the plate beneath it. Art. 86d governs the low-emission zone and applies it to cars, vans, lorries or buses with a diesel engine. Art. 86e governs the zero-emission zone and applies it to vans and lorries, emission-free vehicles excepted. C22f ends both.
Trap: the plate «uitgezonderd bestemmingsverkeer». Destination traffic is narrowly defined in art. 1 — drivers whose destination lies on or right beside that road and is reachable only by it, plus drivers of scheduled buses. Cutting through is not destination traffic.
Series D — compulsory direction
Round and blue with a white arrow: this is the only series that IMPOSES a direction on you.
D01 — roundabout, compulsory direction of travel. D02 obliges you to pass the sign on the side the arrow shows, and D03 allows both sides.
D04 and D05 give one compulsory direction, D06 and D07 a choice of two.
On the road surface art. 78 does the same job: «Bestuurders die de rijbaan volgen zijn verplicht op een kruispunt de richting te volgen die de voorsorteerstrook waarop zij zich bevinden aangeeft.» If you are sitting on the left-turn arrow and wanted to go straight on, you turn left and correct further along; sliding across into the right lane is no longer permitted.
Series E — parking and stopping
First the difference between two words, because half the mistakes live there. Stopping is any standstill; parking is defined in art. 1 as «het laten stilstaan van een voertuig anders dan gedurende de tijd die nodig is voor en gebruikt wordt tot het onmiddellijk in- of uitstappen van passagiers of voor het onmiddellijk laden of lossen van goederen». Waiting for someone who has not arrived yet is therefore parking, not stopping.
E01 — no parking. Stopping briefly to let someone in or out is still allowed.
E02 — no stopping. Here even that is gone.
E03 forbids PARKING bicycles and mopeds, not riding them.
Beside the signs, the law itself bans a list of places. Art. 23 forbids stopping on a junction or a level crossing, on a cycle lane, on a pedestrian crossing and within five metres of it, in a tunnel, along a solid yellow line, on the carriageway beside a bus lane, and at a bus stop sign «ter hoogte van de geblokte markering dan wel, ingeval die markering niet is aangebracht, op een afstand van minder dan 12 meter van het bord».
Art. 24 forbids parking within five metres of a junction, in front of an entrance or exit, outside the built-up area on the carriageway of a priority road, along a broken yellow line, in a loading and unloading bay, and in a permit holders' space marked by sign E09 without a permit. If a plate shows days or hours, the orders and bans apply only on those days and hours; where there are marked bays, you may only stand inside them.
E10 — parking disc zone, with E11 as its end. Art. 25 forbids parking in such a zone except in places marked as parking or provided with a blue stripe, and there a clearly visible parking disc must show your arrival time in whole or half hours. When setting it you may round up to the next whole or half hour.
E06 — disabled parking space. Art. 26 admits only a disabled person's vehicle, or a motor vehicle on more than two wheels displaying a valid and clearly visible disabled parking card, and only where the parking is directly connected with transporting the disabled person. If the plate shows a registration number, the space belongs to that one vehicle.
Art. 25 and art. 26 have a companion in art. 85, which gives the card holder a CLOSED list of exemptions: art. 25 does not apply to him, and if he parks no longer than three hours, neither does art. 24 for the broken yellow line, nor art. 46 for the erf, nor art. 62 in so far as it concerns sign E1. Anything not on that list still applies to him in full.
The rest of the series designates places: E04 a car park, E05 a taxi rank, E07 immediate loading and unloading, E08 the indicated category with E08a for camper vans, E08b for parking with two wheels on the pavement, E08c only for charging electric vehicles, E09 for permit holders, E12 for park and ride and E13 for car pooling.
Series F — other orders and bans
Everything that is not speed, priority, category, direction or parking lives in series F.
F01 bans motor vehicles from overtaking one another, F03 bans it for lorries only; F02 and F04 end those bans. F07 is the no U-turn sign.
F05 and F06 belong to a narrowing and are each other's mirror image: at F05 you wait for oncoming traffic, at F06 oncoming traffic waits for you. They are almost never seen side by side, which is precisely why they get confused — look which arrow is RED, because red is always the one that waits. On F05 the upward arrow, your direction, is red, so you wait; on F06 the downward arrow, the oncoming driver, is red, so they wait.
F08 ends every ban given by signs at once, and F09 does the same for bans shown on an electronic gantry.
F10 — stop. This is the stop signal itself, including in the hand of an authorised person. F11 to F22 designate lanes and tracks: the passing lane of F11, which slow vehicles must use so that they can be overtaken — you may not drive on it, let alone overtake on it —, bus lane, tram track and lanes for lorries and scheduled buses, each with its own end sign.
Series G — type of road
This series switches on a whole REGIME, which is much more than a speed.
G01 — motorway, G03 — expressway. Art. 42 admits to the motorway only motor vehicles that may and can travel at least 60 km per hour, and to the expressway those that manage at least 50 km per hour. Art. 43 forbids turning round and reversing there, forbids standing still on the carriageway, and allows the hard shoulder, the emergency bay and the verge only in an emergency. G02 and G04 end the regime.
G05 — erf. Here art. 45 and art. 46 work together: no faster than 15 km per hour, and parking only in places marked or indicated as parking. G06 ends it.
G11 — compulsory cycle path, G12a — cycle and moped path, G13 — optional cycle path. Who belongs where is not written on the sign but in the law. Art. 5 puts cyclists on the compulsory cycle path, and about the optional one the same article says: «Zij mogen het onverplichte fietspad gebruiken» — may, not must, so the cyclist is entitled to stay on the carriageway. Art. 6: «Bromfietsers gebruiken het fiets/bromfietspad», so at G12a the moped rider must leave the carriageway, while at G11 he does not belong at all.
G07 is the footpath: art. 4 says pedestrians use the pavement or the footpath. G09 is the bridleway: art. 8 says riders use the bridleway, and art. 36 requires them to carry a lantern showing white or yellow to the front and red to the rear at night and by day when visibility is seriously impaired. G10 ends the bridleway.
Series H — built-up area
H01 is the place-name board and at the same time a legal switch: from here the maximum speeds of art. 20 apply, along with every other rule attached to the built-up area. H02 switches that off again and art. 21 takes over.
Trap: newcomers read H01 as a welcome sign and H02 as a release. Both are traffic signs with legal effect, and the end of the built-up area does not automatically raise your speed — that depends on what kind of road you are entering.
Series J — warning
Triangular, white ground, red rim, point upwards. This series ORDERS nothing and FORBIDS nothing: it tells you what is coming. J01 poor road surface, J02 and J03 bends, J08 dangerous junction, J09 roundabout, J10 to J13 level crossings, J16 road works, J20 slippery road, J21 children, J22 pedestrian crossing, J24 cyclists and moped riders, J27 large game, J32 traffic lights, J38 speed hump, J39 a rising bollard.
J37 is the blank warning sign: the nature of the hazard is written on the plate.
Precisely because these signs forbid nothing, the answer almost always hangs on art. 19: you must be able to stop within the distance you can see to be clear. The correct response to a warning sign is speed and following distance, not a manoeuvre.
J29 — oncoming traffic. The sign warns that from here on traffic comes from the other direction again, for example where a one-way stretch or a dual carriageway turns into an ordinary two-way road. J29 orders nothing either: you do not have to wait. What you must do is in art. 3: «Bestuurders zijn verplicht zoveel mogelijk rechts te houden» — drivers must keep as far to the right as possible. If you and the oncoming driver both keep right, your paths do not cross and there is no priority to give. A duty to wait for oncoming traffic only arises at F05, which is a sign from series F, not a warning.
Exam situation: you see J29 and someone is coming towards you. Must you wait? No. You keep right under art. 3 and adjust your speed under art. 19; waiting belongs to F05, not to J29.
Series K — direction signing
K01 to K14 are the direction signs: advance signs that announce, decision signs at the point itself, district signs inside the built-up area, finger posts and stacked boards for cyclists and moped riders, and the board for the route for certain dangerous goods. They give direction and information; they grant no priority and lift no ban.
Two confusions come back on the exam: the advance sign against the decision sign — the first announces, the second stands at the fork itself — and the route number against the exit number.
Series L — information
Rectangular and blue: these boards report a fact.
L02 announces a pedestrian crossing.
L03 marks a bus or tram stop, and with it comes the stopping ban of art. 23 with its chequered marking.
L13 announces a road tunnel. The sign does not switch on your lights; art. 32 does, prescribing dipped headlights at night and by day whenever visibility is seriously impaired.
Elsewhere in this series: L01 the headroom of an underpass, L04 lane selection, L05 the end of a lane, L07 the number of through lanes, L08 a dead end with L09 as its advance warning, L11 and L12 which say that the sign above applies only to the lanes indicated — the board version of art. 65 — and L14 the emergency bay, whose use is governed by art. 43.
Markings on the road surface
Markings are traffic signs in their own right and work without any board.
Art. 76: «Een doorgetrokken streep die zich niet langs de rand van de rijbaanverharding bevindt, mag niet worden overschreden.» That ban falls away in three cases: to reach or leave an emergency bay, hard shoulder or rush-hour lane; where a broken line lies on YOUR side; and for drivers entitled to use a cycle lane. The line along the edge of the carriageway — the edge line — falls outside this ban altogether. And a broken line does not mean overtaking is always allowed: it merely removes this one ban, while sight, space and every other rule stay in force.
Art. 77: «Bestuurders mogen verdrijvingsvlakken en puntstukken niet gebruiken» — you may not drive on hatched areas or gore areas. Art. 1 describes them: a verdrijvingsvlak is a «gedeelte van de rijbaan waarop schuine strepen zijn aangebracht», and a puntstuk a «meerhoekig vlak op het wegdek, opgenomen bij splitsingen of samenvoegingen van wegen, rijstroken of rijbanen».
Art. 11 gives the block marking its meaning: a driver to the right of a block marking may overtake on the right the drivers to the left of it. Art. 10 covers the cycle lane: drivers other than cyclists and disabled vehicle users may not use cycle lanes bordered by solid lines. A red strip without a cycle symbol is NOT a cycle lane — art. 1 requires images of a bicycle for that — but ordinary carriageway.
Art. 81 gives painted words their force: bus lanes bearing the word BUS «mogen slechts worden gebruikt door bestuurders van een lijnbus, een autobus of een tram», and those bearing LIJNBUS only by the scheduled bus or the tram. Art. 25 gives the blue stripe beside a bay its meaning in the parking disc zone, while art. 23 and art. 24 do the same for the solid and the broken yellow line along the kerb.
And art. 63a is at its sharpest here: where a yellow line has been laid over a white one at road works, you follow the yellow.
Traffic lights
Art. 68 gives the three-colour lights their meaning: «a. groen licht: doorgaan; b. geel licht: stop; voor bestuurders die het teken zo dicht genaderd zijn dat stoppen redelijkerwijs niet meer mogelijk is: doorgaan; c. rood licht: stop.» An illuminated arrow applies only to that direction. An illuminated bicycle applies to cyclists, to moped riders on a cycle and moped path, and to drivers of a disabled vehicle. A light hung above one lane governs only that lane. And where a plate reads «Rechtsaf voor fietsers vrij», amber and red do not apply to the cyclist turning right, who must then let the other traffic go first.
Art. 69 covers the two-colour light — amber and red only, as before a movable bridge. There is no green in this set, so waiting until the light goes out is the normal picture.
Art. 70 covers tram and bus lights: white or flashing white means go, amber and red mean stop. Those lights apply to you as well as soon as you are using a bus lane, whether or not you were entitled to be there. Art. 71: «Bij overweglichten betekent: a. wit knipperlicht: er nadert geen trein; b. rood knipperlicht: stop.»
Art. 74 covers the pedestrian lights: green and flashing green mean you may cross, red means you may no longer start, and anyone already crossing walks on as quickly as possible.
Green, by the way, does not mean "drive" but "you may proceed": if the junction ahead is blocked, you stay put. And when your light is red and a stop line is painted, art. 79 says where you stop — before the line, not on it.
Instructions: a person above everything
Art. 82 says who may give an instruction: «de daartoe bevoegde en als zodanig kenbare ambtenaren», military police of the Koninklijke Marechaussee, «de daartoe bevoegde en als zodanig kenbare verkeersregelaars» and people training as traffic controllers in the prescribed clothing. The same article also obliges you to obey the stop signal of an authorised and recognisable school crossing patrol — the parent or senior pupil outside the school has a real power.
Art. 83 covers the stop signal shown by a vehicle: a red lamp, or an illuminated transparent on a police vehicle or on a vehicle of Rijkswaterstaat road inspectors carrying the words stop or stop politie in red letters. Art. 82a obliges you to obey instructions given through the illuminated transparents on vehicles of two groups of services from art. 41a: the police and the special investigation services, and Rijkswaterstaat, the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate and customs — and on vans of transport escorts. The fire service and the breakdown services are listed in art. 41a too, but not in this reference.
Then art. 84 closes the circle: instructions override signs and rules. A yellow vest by itself is not a power; authorised AND recognisable are two requirements at once.
What to remember
- Verkeersteken is an umbrella word: board, light and marking all count.
- The order is instruction, then light, then sign or marking, then the ordinary rule.
- A light beats only the signs that govern PRIORITY; green lifts no ban.
- At road works the temporary marking beats the permanent one.
- A sign can lower your speed but not raise it above your own vehicle's maximum; where two indications meet, the lower one counts.
- Letter, shape and colour together read an unfamiliar sign: round with red forbids, round and blue orders, a triangle warns, a rectangle informs.
- B03, B04 and B05 give you priority at the NEXT junction; B01 gives it along the whole road.
- A zone ends at its end sign, not at the first side street.
- The plate can explain, restrict or switch off the sign above it — always read it.
- Parking signs apply only to their own side of the road, and a sign may be limited to a single lane.
- Shark's teeth work without a sign; a stop line only says where to stop.
- Warning signs forbid nothing; the answer lies in speed and sight.
In the law
- art. 1 — definitions: road users, drivers, parking, road closure, shark's teeth, hatched area, gore area, cycle lane.
- art. 3 — keep as far to the right as possible; sign J29.
- art. 4 — pedestrians use the pavement or footpath; sign G07.
- art. 5 — cyclists and the compulsory and optional cycle path; signs G11 and G13.
- art. 6 — moped riders use the cycle and moped path; sign G12a.
- art. 8 — riders use the bridleway; sign G09.
- art. 10 — cycle lanes with solid lines are not for other drivers.
- art. 11 — to the right of a block marking you may overtake on the right.
- art. 15 — the right-hand rule, the rule beneath every sign.
- art. 19 — stopping within the distance you can see to be clear; the heart of series J and of A04.
- art. 20 — maximum speeds inside the built-up area; sign H01.
- art. 21 — maximum speeds outside the built-up area; sign H02.
- art. 23 — where stopping is forbidden, including the bus stop and its chequered marking.
- art. 24 — where parking is forbidden, with days, hours and marked bays.
- art. 25 — the parking disc zone and the blue stripe; signs E10 and E11.
- art. 26 — who may use a disabled parking space; sign E06.
- art. 32 — dipped headlights at night and in seriously impaired visibility; sign L13.
- art. 36 — a lantern for riders and drovers; sign G09.
- art. 41a — which services may carry illuminated transparents.
- art. 42 — minimum speed on motorway and expressway; signs G01 and G03.
- art. 43 — turning, stopping and the hard shoulder on motorway and expressway.
- art. 45 — inside an erf, no faster than 15 km per hour; sign G05.
- art. 46 — parking inside an erf only in designated places.
- art. 62 — the duty to obey signs containing an order or a prohibition.
- art. 63 — signs beat rules, in so far as the rules are incompatible.
- art. 63a — temporary marking beats permanent marking.
- art. 63b — for speed, the lowest indication counts.
- art. 64 — lights beat the signs that govern priority.
- art. 65 — a sign may be limited to lanes; E1, E2 and E3 apply per side.
- art. 66 — the word zone and its matching end sign.
- art. 67 — what a plate can do: explain, restrict, exempt.
- art. 68 — the meaning of green, amber and red; arrow, cycle image and lane.
- art. 69 — the two-colour light has only amber and red.
- art. 70 — tram and bus lights: white go, amber and red stop.
- art. 71 — level crossing lights: flashing white clear, flashing red stop.
- art. 74 — pedestrian lights.
- art. 75 — flashing amber means a hazardous spot.
- art. 76 — the solid line and its three exceptions.
- art. 77 — hatched areas and gore areas are out of bounds.
- art. 78 — the arrow in a turning lane binds you.
- art. 79 — stop before the stop line where stopping is compulsory.
- art. 80 — shark's teeth: give way to the intersecting road.
- art. 81 — the words BUS and LIJNBUS on bus lanes.
- art. 82 — who may give instructions, and the school crossing patrol.
- art. 82a — instructions given through illuminated transparents.
- art. 83 — the stop signal by red lamp or illuminated transparent.
- art. 84 — instructions override signs and traffic rules.
- art. 85 — the closed list of exemptions of the disabled parking card.
- art. 86d — the low-emission zone behind sign C22e.
- art. 86e — the zero-emission zone behind sign C22e.