Text file: 11679.txt
author: Predlagatelj_19
downvotes: 3
end consideration date: 2020-06-25
id: '11679'
number comments: 5
number views: 598
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: 'Response from the Ministry of Infrastructure

  Article 62 of the Drivers Act (Official Journal of the Republic of Slovenia No 85/16,
  67/17, 21/18 - ZNOrg and 43/19; hereinafter: ZVoz-1) provides that category A1 includes
  two-wheel motorcycles with or without a sidecar, with an engine capacity of not
  more than 125 cc and an engine power of not more than 11 kW, with an engine power/vehicle
  weight ratio of not more than 0.1 kW/kg, and three-wheelers with an engine power
  of not more than 15 kW. At the same time, ZVoz-1 stipulates that the licence to
  drive vehicles of category B includes the licence to drive vehicles of categories
  AM, B1 and G.

  This arrangement is in line with Directive 2006/126/EC of 20 December 2006 on driving
  licences (recast), although the latter provides for an exception to allow Member
  States to grant equivalences on their territory by allowing holders of category
  B licences to drive category A1 motorcycles. The exception was introduced in the
  Directive only because of the arrangements in some Member States of the European
  Union which already had this exception, and the European Commission is not in favour
  of such an arrangement. For safety reasons, the Directive has raised the age conditions
  for the right to ride motorcycles and the gradual acquisition of a licence to ride
  motorcycles of category A without restriction.

  It should be pointed out that the right to drive A1 motorcycles with a category
  B licence is valid only on national territory, this category is not entered in driving
  licences by the Member States, but the acquired category B only entitles the holder
  to drive light motorcycles (A1).

  This means that ZVoz-1 cannot provide that a category B licence also includes licences
  to drive category G, AM and A1 vehicles, as category A1 is not entered on the licence
  under the Directive.

  The automatic recognition of the right to drive a category A1 motorcycle with a
  category B licence is also unacceptable, particularly from a safety point of view,
  since the technique of driving and controlling a motorcycle is fundamentally different
  from that of driving a passenger car or a category B motor vehicle. According to
  statistics, the highest proportion of accidents (fatal and serious injury) caused
  by motorcycles is in the 18-34 age group. This is the age suitable or appropriate
  for driving A1 category vehicles. Therefore, the ZVoz-1 provides for the gradual
  acquisition of a driving licence to drive motorcycles of category A (without restrictions),
  via categories A1 and A2 (whereby conditions such as appropriate age, appropriate
  experience of driving motorcycles and additional practical driving test of the relevant
  category must be met).

  In addition, there is also a difference between motorised bicycles (category AM,
  which can be ridden by the holder of a category B licence), which are limited by
  design to a speed of 45 km/h, and motorcycles of category A1, which can be ridden
  at speeds exceeding 100 km/h. For these reasons, the training of candidates for
  driving motorcycles is also carried out in a different way from the training of
  candidates for driving two-wheel motor vehicles.

  It should also be pointed out that, from a safety point of view, the road safety
  regulations in the Republic of Slovenia have never provided for the possibility
  of driving a category A1 motorcycle with a category B licence.'
response date: 2020-08-04
response due date: null
sent date: 2020-05-25
title: Initiative for the possibility of driving A1 motorcycles with a category B
  driving licence
upvotes: 28
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/11679
