Editing Convoy (section)

===Special convoy rights===
[[File:marschbung.jpg|thumb|3. Einsatzeinheit of [[German Red Cross]] Freiburg Land preparing for a march under special convoy rights]]
The Highway Code of several European countries (Norway, Italy, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, possibly more) includes special rights for marked convoys. They have to be treated like a single vehicle. If the first vehicle has passed an intersection, all others may do so without interruption. If other road users overtake the convoy, they are not allowed to split into the queue. Clear and uniform marking has been required in court decisions for these rights to apply. Operating such convoy usually needs special permission, but there are exemptions for emergency and catastrophe intervention. Common practice is, to operate with the same style of marking as NATO convoys: [[STANAG]] 2154 marking plus country-specific augmentation listed in Annex B to the STANAG.<ref>Annex B to STANAG 2154, "Differences in National Marking of Columns and Legal Rights" can be found on pp. 161 ff. of [http://safety.korea.army.mil/Toolbox/Resources/Publications/fm55_30.pdf FM 55-30] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504115026/http://safety.korea.army.mil/Toolbox/Resources/Publications/fm55_30.pdf |date=2015-05-04 }} Linking to STANAG 2154 directly would be preferable. Anybody, who finds it in the public part of the Internet, is welcome to improve this link.</ref><ref>Videos showing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oo2xsZVHGQ a convoy departure to the Elbe flood in Germany 2013] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jkDgXu3uNM the return from EU exercise FloodEx 2009 in the Netherlands] illustrate this kind of operation practically. </ref>

During the [[Cold War]] with its high number of military exercises, the military was the main user of convoy rights. Today, catastrophes like large-scale flooding might bring a high number of flagged convoys to the roads. Large-scale evacuations for the disarming of World War II bombs are another common reason for [[non-governmental organization]] (NGO) unit movements under convoy rights.