The Customs and Excise Administration ensures road safety and combats unfair competition in road transport;
Credit: Luxembourg Customs and Excise Administration
On Monday 19 January 2026, the Luxembourg Customs and Excise Administration (ADA) reported that its Security Control Unit issued penalty notices totalling €1,462,056 in 2025 as part of their inspections carried out on the Grand Duchy’s road network.
The Customs and Excise Administration said that as Luxembourg is largely a transit country for international road transport this figure reflected the significant and unacceptable non-compliance with the Highway Code and various legal obligations applicable to road transport professionals.
Focusing on both road safety and fiscal compliance, the ADA emphasised that these results in terms of fines collected once again demonstrate the importance of daily inspections on our roads to combat fraudulent practices, protect all road users and prevent unfair competition by certain professional transport companies against others.
According to the ADA, examples of the most frequently observed offences included:
• Eurovignette violations: €1,078,000;
• failure to respect driving and rest times: €148,930;
• sanctions for incorrect load securing: €43,500;
• exceeding authorised total weight: €23,750;
• offences relating to exceptional convoys: €41,725;
• various other Highway Code violations: €126,151.
The ADA noted that beyond an increase in cases of non-payment of road usage fees for heavy goods vehicles, which they said reflected unfair competitive behaviour and results in a loss of state revenue, the other offences primarily indicated unsafe driving practices that could potentially lead to serious accidents.
In this regard, the authority stressed that non-compliance with driving and rest times remains the primary issue in the international road transport sector, which must continue to be addressed in 2026 through both awareness-raising and enforcement measures.
