Road sign R-500: End of prohibitions

What it means

«Señala el lugar desde el que todas las prohibiciones específicas indicadas por señales anteriores de prohibición para vehículos en movimiento dejan de tener aplicación.» RD 465/2025, Annex I of the RGC (BOE-A-2025-12199), Spanish original.

It clears at once the specific prohibitions for moving vehicles that you were under. It lifts not just one of them nor only the last: it lifts at once all those in force at that point.

Where you meet it

You see it at the end of a stretch with several prohibitions in a row. Its scope is wider than that of the specific end-of-speed-limit or end-of-overtaking-ban signs (RGC art. 145.2.f).

What you must do

From it on, you no longer apply any of the specific prohibitions for moving vehicles that you were under, for instance a signed 50 limit. The general traffic rules still apply.

Details that count

There are end signs specific to each case: R-501 for the speed limit, R-502 and R-503 for overtaking. R-500 has a wider scope than all of them: it lifts at once all the specific prohibitions for moving vehicles in force at that point, not just the last one nor a single one of them (RGC art. 145.2.f). Mind its name: it lifts specific prohibitions for moving vehicles, not the priority signs, which belong to another class (RGC art. 145.2.a and f).

What it is confused with

It is confused with R-502 and R-503, the specific end signs. R-502 lifts the no-overtaking ban; R-503 the lorry no-overtaking ban; R-500 lifts all of them at once. And it is not R-4, «End of priority», which belongs to the priority signs and lifts no prohibition.

Related signs

• R-502: End of the no-overtaking ban
• R-503: End of the no-overtaking ban for lorries
• R-305: No overtaking
• R-4: End of priority

Studied in topic 10: Vertical road signs.

Source: RGC arts. 145.2.a, 145.2.f; RGC Annex I, sign R-500 (RD 465/2025).