EU plans credit-card style driving licence
Web posted at: 3/27/2006 2:42:51
Source ::: AFP
BRUSSELS: EU transport ministers are expected to approve today the creation of a new credit-card style EU driving licence, to replace some 100 different documents currently used by Europe’s motorists.
After being held up for over two years, the European Union’s Austrian presidency has finally resolved differences between EU governments, to open the way for accord at a regular meeting in Brussels, EU sources say.
The EU directive, or law, is also expected to establish the principle of an EU licence for motorbikes.
The European Commission proposed the new licence to prevent fraud and make security checks easier. Procedures and tests to obtain a driving licence will remain different in each EU member state under the draft rules. But they will introduce a common document in all EU states: a credit-card style and counterfeit-proof plastic licence including, for countries who want it, a microchip to make it computer-readable.
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