1. Member States may not reject or prohibit the use on their territories in international traffic of vehicles registered or put into circulation in any Member State for reasons relating to their weights and dimensions provided that such vehicles comply with the limit values specified in Annex I.
This provision shall apply notwithstanding the fact that:
(a) the said vehicles are not in conformity with the requirements of the Member State concerned with regard to certain weight and dimension characteristics not covered by Annex I;
(b) the competent authority of the Member State in which the vehicles are registered or put into circulation has authorized limits exceeding those laid down in Annex I.
2. However, the provision in paragraph 1 (a) shall not affect the right of Member States, with due regard to Community law, to require vehicles registered or put into circulation in their own territory to be in conformity with their national requirements on weight and dimension characteristics not covered by Annex I.
3. Any Member State which authorizes higher weights and greater dimensions than those laid down in this Directive may limit their application to vehicles registered or put into circulation in that Member State when used in domestic traffic in that Member State.