Area: Promet
Competent authority: MzI
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 257
Initiative accepted and completed: '2013-12-19'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2013-12-05'
Initiative published: '2013-12-05'
Initiative submitted: '2013-11-28'
Response from the competent authority: 'Reply from the Ministry of Infrastructure
  and Spatial Planning: The field of driving licences in the territory of the European
  Union is governed by Directive 2006/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the
  Council of 20 December 2006 on driving licences (as amended). The rules on driving
  licences are an essential component of the common European transport policy, contributing
  to improving road safety and facilitating the free movement of persons intending
  to reside in a Member State other than the one in which the licence is issued. In
  accordance with the provisions of Directive 2006/126/EC, EU Member States had to
  introduce a national driving licence based on the Community model set out in Annex
  I of the Directive by 19 January 2013. The single European driving licence issued
  by the Member States from that date will gradually replace the more than 110 different
  national driving licences that are still in force and recognised by all Member States.     Annex
  I of the Directive describes the model driving licence in detail. Member States
  do not have the possibility to derogate, and we had to obtain a positive written
  opinion from the European Commission before issuing a new driving licence. The Directive
  currently only allows for the issue of a driving licence in the form of a polycabonate
  card. The abolition of card-based driving licences would first require a corresponding
  amendment of the EU Directive or, consequently, of the national rules in all Member
  States, adjustments to the issuing of driving licences, the equipping of the supervisory
  authorities for control... We do not rule out the possibility of changes in this
  direction in the future, but this is not currently under discussion. One of the
  reasons for this is certainly the fact that EU Member States have only just started
  to issue the single driving licence, and the change would involve significant financial
  resources. The field of driving licences is governed by Council Directive 1999/37/EC
  of 29 April 1999 on the registration documents for vehicles (OJ L 138, 1.6.1999,
  p. 57), as last amended by Council Directive 2006/103/EC of 20.6.2006. Directive
  2006/103/EC of 20 November 2006 adapting certain Directives in the field of transport
  policy, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006,
  p. 344), which was transposed into our legal order by the Regulation on the registration
  of motor vehicles and their trailers (Official Journal of the RS, No 48/11 and 4/13).
  That Directive sets out the format of the registration document in Annex I, allowing
  either a paper document or a smart card, and prescribing the conditions and content
  of both forms. It does not allow any other form of registration document. The Regulation
  on the registration of motor vehicles and their trailers provides that the registration
  document shall be in the form of a paper form. In order to change the format of
  this document as well, it would be necessary to first regulate this at EU level,
  i.e. to amend the Directive governing this area. At the moment, however, we have
  no information about the European Commission''s intention to make any changes to
  the format of the registration document. For driving in international traffic (outside
  the EU Member States), we also have to take into account the provisions of the 1968
  Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, which also does not provide for an electronic
  form for driving and road licences. Such documents would not be recognised abroad
  without a corresponding amendment to the Vienna Convention.'
Text file: 257.txt
Title: I propose to abolish paper-based traffic and driving licences
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=257
