“European Removal Experts provided exceptional service during our London to Paris move, assisting us every step of the way. Quick responses to our questions, transparent pricing—exactly what we were looking for, no hassle.”
Andreas Casey
Barnet | North London
We Work With the Highest Standards of Quality.
We are responsible for finding the perfect removal solution for you, and we genuinely enjoy our work. For your London to Paris relocation needs, European Removal Experts is here to address any questions you may have, whether significant, minor, or personalised.
Inquire, and we’ll provide the answers—it’s our expertise!
Inquire, and we’ll provide the answers—it’s our expertise!
The UK to Europe removals specialists
We move household goods and business contents from anywhere in the UK to destinations across France and Europe. Collection to door-to-door delivery, with packing available if you want it and storage on either side of the Channel if your move dates don’t line up.
For fragile or high-value pieces, we crate and palletise to freight standard. Goods-in-transit insurance is included on every move as standard, not as an add-on.
Operator licensing
Ask for the O-licence before you book any removals company
Any business running goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes to carry other people’s belongings must hold a goods vehicle operator’s licence, known as an O-licence, granted by the Traffic Commissioner. It is not a trade badge or a membership someone pays to display. It is the legal permission to put that lorry on the road with your furniture inside it.
Operators have to prove they are financially standing, of good repute, have a qualified transport manager and maintain their vehicles to a set standard. That is the whole point of it: the licence is the reason a stranger’s lorry is a reasonable place to put everything you own.
It is also the single easiest thing to check, and almost nobody moving abroad knows to ask.
An unlicensed vehicle can be impounded — with your possessions still in it
If the DVSA stops a goods vehicle that is operating without the correct licence, it can be seized and impounded. Your belongings do not travel on without it. They are inside.
Getting them back is a formal application to the Traffic Commissioner, made by the operator, not by you — and you are the one with a completion date, a flight booked and an empty house at the other end.
So before you accept any quote, ask the company for its O-licence number and check it on the public register. It takes a minute, and it is the difference between a cheap quote and a real one.
The three types
Which licence a UK to Europe removal actually requires
- Restricted licenceFor a business carrying only its own goods as part of its trade — a builder moving their own tools and materials, for instance. Does not permit carrying your household goods for payment.
- Standard national licenceFor carrying other people’s goods for hire or reward, but only within Great Britain. Does not permit taking your goods to France, Spain or anywhere else in Europe.
- Standard international licenceFor carrying other people’s goods for hire or reward, and your own goods, internationally across Europe. This is the only one of the three that lawfully covers a UK to Europe household removal — and it is the licence we hold.
Valid
- Licence holder
- European Removal Experts Ltd
- Licence type
- Standard International
- Traffic area
- London and the South East of England
- Transport manager
- Vasile Cristian Popovici
- Operating centre
- 178 Crow Lane, Romford, RM7 0ES
- Authorised fleet
- 2 heavy goods vehicles, 3 light goods vehicles
- Continuation date
- 30 April 2029
- Issuing authority
- Traffic Commissioner
Held on the public operator licensing register and checkable by anyone.
Every detail above is published by the Traffic Commissioner, not by us. Ask the other firms quoting for your move for their licence number and look it up the same way. If a company cannot give you one, that tells you what you need to know.