I believe you can not rely on the "if it is legal back home, it is legal here" in all aspects of road travel.
Some examples - RHD vehicles must fit beam deflectors in Europe otherwise they will be issued with a defect notice. Speed limits are certainly enforced regardless of what they might be in the same situation back home. Umwelt (sp?) zones are enforced (as is the London zone), winter tyres and chain rules are enforced, wearing safety vests and having triangles, blood alcohol levels, using GPS with speed camera warnings, towing four-down etc etc etc. All these matters are not part of the vehicle design itself and are local operational requirements and radio equipment comes into this category and can be locally enforced.
That said, there are a lot of countries with very strict laws on all sorts of electronic equipment, especially anything relying on use of that countries radio spectrum so I guess there is always a chance of running into problems, but in the EU I doubt whether it would be an issue.
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