EU-wide driving license
European Union transport ministers have approved a plan to start issuing EU driving licenses. The new licenses will be the size of a credit-card and will replace the more than 100 different papers that are currently being used in the EU. The new driving license is expected to reduce fraud and make security checks easier.
“‘They will also crack down on so-called “driving licence tourism,” in which people who have had their licence taken away in one EU state, for example due to repeated offences, can move to another state and apply for one there. Procedures and tests to obtain a driving licence will remain different in each EU member state under the draft rules being considered Monday. 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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Administrator @ March 27, 2006