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Belgian agricultural machinery can include land and forestry vehicles, agricultural tractors, self-propelled agricultural machines, agricultural trailers and other equipment designed or registered for agricultural work.

Category G is the Belgian national driving-licence category specifically intended for land and forestry vehicles and their trailers and for certain vehicles registered as agricultural equipment, motor ploughs or mowing machines.

The category G theory examination may be taken from 15 years and 9 months and the practical examination from 16 years.

Yes. Until the age of 18, code 205 is placed on the licence and limits the driver to a vehicle combination consisting of a tractor and trailer with a maximum authorised mass of no more than 20 tonnes.

Not necessarily. Holders of categories B, BE, C1, C1E, C or CE may drive category G vehicles within the maximum authorised masses covered by their licence. A category CE licence also gives entitlement to category G.

Yes. A person born before 1 October 1982 may drive category G agricultural vehicles in Belgium without holding a category G licence.

Agricultural vehicles and machinery belonging to categories that require registration for public-road use must be registered with the DIV and display the appropriate registration plate.

No. Agricultural and forestry vehicles can have an ordinary registration plate. The plate beginning with G is a special fiscal plate for qualifying vehicles authorised to use fully tax-exempt agricultural diesel.

No. Agricultural vehicles are specifically prohibited from Belgian motorways, regardless of whether an individual machine might otherwise be capable of reaching motorway speed.

No. Agricultural vehicles are also expressly excluded from roads legally designated as autowegen.

No. The applicable maximum speed depends on the vehicle's construction, mass, tyres, suspension, road and traffic signs. The vehicle's own construction speed may also impose a lower limit than the general road limit.

An F99c road is a road reserved for the categories indicated on the sign, which can include agricultural vehicles together with pedestrians, cyclists, riders and speed-pedelec riders.

The maximum speed on a road reserved under the current F99c rules is 30 km/h.

Motorised traffic, and agricultural vehicles in particular, must exercise increased caution towards pedestrians, cyclists, riders and the other vulnerable users permitted on the road.

Agricultural machines can be slow, wide and difficult to see around. Drivers should wait for sufficient visibility and space and should be alert for machinery turning into fields or farm entrances.