Article 1 
1. Under the conditions laid down in paragraph 2, Member States shall liberalise the types of international carriage of goods by road for hire or reward and on own account listed in Annex I where such carriage is performed to or from or in transit through their territory. 2. The types of carriage and unladen journeys made in conjunction with the carriage listed in Annex I shall be exempted from Community authorisation and from any carriage authorisation.
Article 2 
This Directive shall not affect the conditions under which any Member State authorises its own nationals to engage in the activities mentioned in this Directive.
Article 3 
The First Council Directive of 23 July 1962 on the establishment of common rules for certain types of carriage of goods by road is hereby repealed, without prejudice to the obligations of the Member States relating to the time-limits for transposition into national law and application of the Directives set out in Annex II, Part B. References made to the repealed Directive shall be construed as being made to this Directive and should be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex III.
Article 4 
This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
Article 5 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.