MOT required abroad or not?

knightstyle

There is another problem, how long can you use a foreign car abroad? From memory if you are moving permanently to France you have a month to register it.
Found this as well:
EU legislation
1. Under EU law, a private vehicle may be temporarily imported and used on French roads for up to six months in any 12 months. The vehicle must be re-registered in France if it is owned and used by a resident of France.

2. It is against the law for the resident of an EU country, while living in that country, to drive any vehicle registered in another EU country. So a person who is a resident of France may only drive a French-registered car while they are in France (with the exception of cross-border workers).

3. An EU-registered vehicle must satisfy the legal roadworthiness requirements of its country of registration to be legal to drive elsewhere in the EU.

Para 2 seems like a minefield. I know of some friends who moved back to the UK, later having sold their house they hired a French van and drove back with a load of furniture. So they were UK resident driving a French van in the UK. Is this against the law?