Green Card

[Grehan]

I've just had to make a minor change to car insurance and will be driving to France and back next week. Have been told (by NFU Mutual rep, reading off what her screen says) that a Green Card is required (just by them?) for continental driving after tomorrow. Can't immediately find any confirmation elsewhere, and government website says not, but it wasn't going to cost me anything, so I went along with it.
Posting this purely FWIW point of information. Possibly just the Fog of Brexit general confusion type situation.

 

[dgadee]

I've just had to make a minor change to car insurance and will be driving to France and back next week. Have been told (by NFU Mutual rep, reading off what her screen says) that a Green Card is required (just by them?) for continental driving after tomorrow. Can immediately find any confirmation elsewhere, and government website says not, but it wasn't going to cost me anything, so I went along with it.
Posting this purely FWIW point of information. Possibly just the Fog of Brexit general confusion type situation.

Same here. Couldn't find anything online at all. Going this weekend so called up my insurer a few days ago. They said they didn't know if I would need it but emailed me one anyway.

 

[dpb]

Likewise my insurer, they even sent a separate green card for the trailer!

 

[Grehan]

So - some clarification. Or rather correction. Different NFU person this morning went away and checked. Green Card currently not required for car/private person going to (inter alia) France.

 

[Grehan]

They said they didn't know if I would need it but emailed me one anyway.

I was told yesterday that a Green Card has to be issued printed and sent by post - can't be emailed.

But this is all symptomatic of the confused mire we're now in. Won't end until we're all grubbing around amongst the dystopian smouldering ruins of this once green and pleasant land when all thoughts of cars and insurance will have become completely irrelevant.

 

[dgadee]

I was told yesterday that a Green Card has to be issued printed and sent by post - can't be emailed.

Well it was emailed to me, so hopefully if it is required to have been printed by the insurer none of the soon to be foreigners know that. There is also something about getting an IDP (?) from the post office at £5.50 but that seemed a step too far.

 

[Grehan]

When it looked like a No Deal Brexit was imminent (it is, of course, still quite possible) we got ourselves fitted out with IDPs on the basis that UK licences might not be recognised. A step too far? Gawd knows !

 

[Cariadco]

S'funny, as I thought you always needed a Green card to drive on the continent? and they lasted for 3 months.