By tomorrow in the EU the new European driving licence will be released



Beginning from tomorrow all the new driving licences which released in the European Union will be of the type "credit card" of plastic, with an European uniform format and a greater protection of safety. The new driving licence will replace progressively more than 100 different models, in plastic and paper, used currently gives beyond 300 million leading in all the EU: the licenses in circulation will be replaced in fact with the license of new format at the moment of renew or, however, within 2033. To the Member States the faculty is left to represent national symbols on the license.

The EU commission has remembered that the clear new is part integrating of a wider package than measures (the third directive EU on the driving licences) adopted in order to increase the circulation freedom, to contrast the phenomenon of the swindles and to improve street safety in the European Union. "The highway patrol of the various European Countries - Brussels has explained - is held today to recognize more than 100 different types of driving licence in plastic or paper material. Many times the photographies brought back on the document are not more current, the category for which is qualified leading is not clear and the document is easy to counterfeit. The false driving licences constitute a "licence to kill": for this we need licenses easy to read and to understand and very difficult to counterfeit".

Safety is increased graces also to the creation of an European electronic system of exchange of data in order to facilitate the exchange of information between the national administrations. This will afford to simplify the procedures of management of the driving licences for the people who transfer own residence from a Member States to another, besides to contribute in meaningful way to the fight against so-called "tourism of the driving licence" and the swindles, for example by means of the application of the new and more rigorous prohibition than to release in a Member States the driving licence to a person whose license is withdrawn or suspended or is subject to limitations in another Member States.

The European normative new previews that the driving licences for motorists and motorcyclists must be renewed every 10-15 years according to the Member States. The driving licences for leading of trucks and bus must be renewed every five years and I renew is subordinated to the overcoming of a medical examination. I renew is an administrative action that does not demand the overcoming of ulterior tests and guarantees that the information brought back on the license are updated, than the characteristics of safety of the license is to the step with new technologies and that the Member States have constantly of information updated on the licenses in circulation.

Moreover the normative new previews, among other things, a limit of elevated age more (from current the 21 years to 24 years) for the direct access (by means of theoretical and practical tests) to the licenses that allow to guide the more powerful motorcycles and that leading has matured a experience at least four years (rather than two) to the guide of motorcycles of inferior power before being able to acquire the license in order to guide those of advanced power. Moreover the autocycles now represent a new category of vehicles and the people who wish to obtain the relative driving licence are held to support a theoretical test. The Member States can moreover decide to introduce tests of ability and behavior let alone medical examinations. The EU has fixed to 16 years the minimal age registered letter for the mutual acknowledgment of the licenses by all the Member States (on a national level the Member States can condescend to 14 years such limit). Until now they did not exist requisitioned minimums EU for the autocycles.