What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

Added:6. Driving licences issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised.

Added:7. By way of derogation from paragraph 6, Member States shall only mutually recognise mobile driving licences that were issued after [date-of-adoption+3 years] in accordance with Article 5. Mobile driving licences that were issued before that date but meet the requirements of Article 5 shall be mutually recognised after that date.

Added:Article 4 Physical driving licences

Added:1. Member States shall issue physical driving licences based on the Union standard specifications laid down in Annex I, Part A1.

Added:2. Member States shall take all necessary steps to avoid any risk of forgery of driving licences, including that of model driving licences issued before the entry into force of this Directive. They shall inform the Commission thereof.

Added:The physical driving licence shall be made secure against forgery by means of the Union standard specifications laid down in Annex I, Part A2. Member States may introduce additional security features.

Added:3. Where the holder of a valid physical driving licence without an administrative validity period takes up normal residence in a Member State other than that which issued that driving licence, the host Member State may, as of two years after the date on which the holder has taken up normal residence on its territory, apply the administrative validity periods set out in Article 10(2), by renewing the driving licence.

Added:4. Member States shall ensure that by 19 January 20302033, all physical driving licences issued or in circulation fulfil all the requirements of this Directive. [Am. 47]

Added:5. Member States may decide to introduce a storage medium (microchip) as part of the physical driving licence. Where a Member State decides to introduce a microchip as part of their physical driving licence it may, where its national laws related to driving licences provide for it, also decide to store data additional to what is specified in Annex I, Part D, on the microchip. The retention period for the personal data stored in the microchip shall, whenever possible, be aligned with the validity of the driving licence. [Am. 48]

Added:When Member States provide for the microchip as part of the physical driving licence, they shall apply technical requirements laid down in Annex I, Part B. Member States may introduce additional security features

Added:Member States shall inform the Commission in the event of a decision on including a microchip on their physical driving licences, or of any change concerning such a decision, within three months of its adoption. Member States that have already introduced a microchip on their physical driving licences shall inform the Commission accordingly within three months from the date of entry into force of this Directive.

Added:6. Where the microchip is not introduced as part of the physical driving licence, Member States may also decide to print, in the space reserved for that purpose, a QR code on the physical driving licences that are issued by them. The QR code shall allow the verification of the authenticity of the information reported on the physical driving licence.

Added:7. Member States shall ensure that the personal data necessary for the verification of the information reported on the physical driving licence is not retained by the verifier and that the issuing authority of the driving licence is not notified about the verification process.

Added:The Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down detailed provisions concerning the interoperability features and the security measures to be complied with by QR codes printed on physical driving licences. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 22(2).

Added:Member States shall inform the Commission of any measure aimed at the introduction of a QR code on their driving licences or of any change of such measure, within three months of its adoption.

Added:8. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts, in accordance with Article 21, to amend Annex I, Parts A, B and D, where necessary in order to take account of technical, operational or scientific developments.

Added:Article 5 Mobile driving licences

Added:1. Member States shall issue mobile driving licences based on the Union standard specifications laid down in Annex I, Part C.

Added:2. Member States shall ensure that electronic applications established for mobile driving licences, in order to enable verification of the existence of the driving rights of the holder of the driving licence, are available to persons having their normal residence in their territory, or to persons who are otherwise entitled to hold mobile driving licences issued by them, free of charge.

Added:TheseThose applications shall be based on the European Digital Identity Wallets issued in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and an appropriate level of security of these applications should be ensured.. [Am. 49]

Added:3. Member States shall publish and regularly update the list of available electronic applications which are established and maintained for the purposes of this Article.

Added:Member States shall ensure that the electronic applications do not contain or, in the case of applying a pointer, do not make available more data than referred to in Annex I, Part D. [Am. 50]

Added:4. Member States shall make available and regularly update each other on the information required to access the national systems referred to in Annex I, Part C, that are used for the verification of mobile driving licences.

Added:Member States shall ensure that the personal data necessary for the verification of the driving rights of the holder of the mobile driving licence is not retained by the verifier and that the issuing authority of the driving licence processes the information received through the notification only for the purpose of responding to the verification request. Personal data shall be processed in accordance with Regulations (EU) 2016/679 and (EU) 2018/1725 and, where applicable, Directive 2002/58/EC, implementing the principles of ‘data minimisation’, ‘purpose limitation’ and ‘data protection by design and by default’, in particular with regard to technical measures. [Am. 51]

Added:5. Member States shall inform the Commission of the list of relevant national systems authorised to issue data and pointers for mobile driving licences. The Commission shall make available to the public, through a secure channel, the list of such national systems of the Member States, in an electronically signed or sealed form suitable for automated processing. [Am. 52]

Added:6. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts, in accordance with Article 21, to amend Annex I, Part C, where necessary in order to take account of technical, operational or scientific developments.

Added:7. By … [date-of-adoption+18 months], the Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down detailed provisions concerning the interoperability, security and testing of mobile driving licences, including verification features and the interface with national systems and taking into account the necessary requirements to ensure recognition of those driving liences by third country authorities. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 22(2). [Am. 53]

Added:7a. The Commission shall provide assistance in this regard to Member States who should work together in pursuit of the worldwide use and recognition of the European mobile driving licence by means of an amendment to the Geneva Convention on Road Traffic of 19 September 1949, the International Convention on Motor Transport of 24 April 1926 and the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic of 8 November 1968. [Am. 54]

Added:Article 6 Licence categories

Added:1. The driving licence shall authorise the driving of power-driven vehicles in the following categories:

Added:(a) mopeds:

Added:category AM:

Added:- two-wheel vehicles or three-wheel vehicles with a maximum design speed of not more than 45 km/h and a net maximum power not exceeding 4kW (excluding those with a maximum design speed under or equal to 25 km/h); [Am. 55]

Added:- light quadricycles;

Added:(b) motorcycles and powered tricycles:

Added:(i) category A1:

Added:- motorcycles with a cylinder capacity not exceeding 125 cubic centimetres, of a net maximum power not exceeding 11 kW and with a power/weight ratio not exceeding 0,1 kW/kg; [Am. 56]

Added:- powered tricycles with a net maximum power not exceeding 15 kW; [Am. 57]

Added:(ii) category A2:

Added:- motorcycles of a net maximum power not exceeding 35 kW and with a power/weight ratio not exceeding 0,2 kW/kg and not derived from a vehicle of more than 70 kW. ; [Am. 58]

Added:(iii) Category A:

Added:- motorcycles;

Added:- powered tricycles with a net maximum power exceeding 15 kW;

Added:Without prejudice to the provisions of type-approval rules for the vehicles concerned, motor vehicles in categories referred to in points (a) and (b) may be combined with a trailer with a maximum authorised mass not exceeding half the weight of the towing vehicle’s unladen mass; [Am. 59]

Added:(c) motor vehicles:

Added:(i) category B1:

Added:- heavy quadricycles.

Added:Category B1 is optional; in Member States which do not introduce this category of driving licence, a driving licence for category B shall be required to drive such vehicles;

Added:Member States may also decide to introduce this category exclusively for the vehicles referred to in Article 9(4), first subparagraph, point (c), and under the conditions provided for in that paragraph. Where a Member State decides to do so they shall mark this fact on the driving licence by the use of Union code 60.03.

Added:(ii) category B:

Added:- motor vehicles with a maximum authorised mass not exceeding 3 500 kg and designed and constructed for the carriage of no more than eight passengers in addition to the driver.

Added:- motor vehicles in this category may be combined with a trailer having a maximum authorised mass which does not exceed 750 kg.

Added:Without prejudice to the provisions of type-approval rules for the vehicles concerned, motor vehicles in this category may be combined with a trailer with a maximum authorised mass exceeding 750 kg, provided that the maximum authorised mass of this combination does not exceed 4 250 kg. Where such a combination exceeds 3 500 kg, Member States shall, in accordance with the provisions of Annex V, require that this combination only be driven after:

Added:- a training has been completed, or

Added:- a test of skills and behaviour has been passed.

Added:Member States may also require both such a training and the passing of a test of skills and behaviour.

Added:Member States shall indicate the entitlement to drive such a combination on the driving licence by means of the relevant Union code specified in Annex I, Part E.

Added:(iii) category BE:

Added:- without prejudice to the provisions of type-approval rules for the vehicles concerned, combination of vehicles consisting of a tractor vehicle in category B and a trailer or semi-trailer where the maximum authorised mass of the trailer or semi-trailer does not exceed 3 500 kg;

Added:(iv) category C1: