LICENCE DATA SWAP
June 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
COUNTRIES that are members of the European Union's (EU) Schengen open borders system will be able to access each other's driving licence data in future, the EU Council of Ministers has decided. The decision is aimed at preventing the re-registering in different EU member states of stolen vehicles, allowing checks to be made following re-registration applications. Britain and Ireland are not members of the Schengen system, although non-EU states Norway and Iceland are.
COUNTRIES that are members of the European Union's (EU) Schengen open borders system will be able to access each other's driving licence data in future, the EU Council of Ministers has decided. The decision is aimed at preventing the re-registering in different EU member states of stolen vehicles, allowing checks to be made following re-registration applications. Britain and Ireland are not members of the Schengen system, although non-EU states Norway and Iceland are.
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