Driving Licences: What Will Change the European Reform?

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Limited validity, dematerialised licence, transmission of sanctions... A new European directive will harmonise the rules for driving licences across the continent within three years. For France, which already applies certain provisions, the changes will be limited.

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A school car instructor gives a lesson to a student, in Quimper (Finistry), on 24 July 2025. FRED TANNEAU/AFP Modernise the driving licence to reduce the number of deaths on the roads: this is the objective of the new directive recently adopted by the European Union (EU), almost twenty years after the last reform on the subject. If...