MEMBER STATES CAN REFUSE TO RECOGNISE SECOND EU FOREIGN DRIVING LICENCES AFTER A DRIVING BAN
November 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DRIVING licence authorities within the European Union (EU) can refuse to recognise a pre-existing second foreign EU licence, if a driver had another home country licence issued by that authority withdrawn by a court: that is the formal opinion of European Court of Justice advocate general Yves Bot. He ruled in a case where an Austrian motorist living in Germany wanted to drive on his old Austrian licence after his German permit was taken away following a drink-drive conviction. However, without such a crime, EU law would allow both licences to ...
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