What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

Added:5. In order to ensure interoperability between national systems connected to the EU driving licence network and the protection of personal data exchanged in this context, the Commission shall adopt by 6 June 2026 implementing acts laying down the detailed operational, interface and technical requirements of the EU driving licence network. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 22(2).

Added:6. Member States may cooperate in the enforcement of any partial restriction, suspension, withdrawal or cancellation of the right to drive or a driving licence, in particular where the respective measures are limited to certain driving licence categories or to the territories of certain Member States, in particular through endorsements on the driving licences they have issued.

Added:Article 20 Review

Added:Member States shall inform the Commission on a yearly basis about the number of driving licences issued, renewed, replaced, withdrawn and exchanged, for each category, including data on the issuance and use of mobile driving licences. Member States shall also inform the Commission within 3 months if the laws, regulations and administrative provisions they adopted, which are necessary to comply with this Directive, are changed in a way affecting the application of the provisions of this Directive. [Am. 131]

Added:Member States shall also share data on their best practices as regards road safety measures and risk awareness trainings, especially as regards novice drivers and within the lifelong training, on types of medical fitness checks per age group, use of support system per age group through feedback interventions with proof of participation and recommendations provided by a driving instructor, traffic psychologist or driving examiner as well as measures to increase road safety measures among vulnerable road users, including measures regulating micro mobility. [Am. 132]

Added:By 1 July 2027, the Commission is invited to present a report to the European Parliament and to the Council on the effects of use of national provisions on Non Road Mobile Machinery and its implication on internal market and road safety. The report may be accompanied, if appropriate, by a proposal to the European Parliament and the Council with the view to facilitating use of Non Road Mobile Machinery across the Union. [Am. 321]

Added:Member States shall annually report to the Commission statistics on road accidents per driving licence category, caused by novice drivers under accompanied driving scheme as defined by Article 14. Every 3 years, the Commission is invited to prepare a report comparing the road accidents caused by drivers who obtained a driving licence following accompanied driving scheme with the other drivers. The report shall take into account data per each category of driving licence. The Commission shall make the report publically available, including through the CBE portal as established by the [CBE directive]. [Am. 133]

Added:By [entry into force + 5 years], and every five years thereafter, the Commission shall present a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of this Directive, including its impact on road safety.

Added:Article 21 Exercise of the delegation

Added:1. The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred on the Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this Article.

Added:2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 4(8), Article 5(6), Article 8(2), Article 9(2), Article 10(8), Article 11(a), Article 12(8a)10(8) and Article 16(2) and Article 16a(2) shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of five years from [Date of entry into force of the Directive]. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power no later than nine months before the end of the five-year period. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension no later than three months before the end of each period. [Am. 134]

Added:3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 4(8), Article 5(6), Article 8(2), Article 10(8) and Article 16(2) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force.

Added:4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making.

Added:5. As soon as it adopts a delegated act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European Parliament and to the Council.

Added:6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 4(8), Article 5(6), Article 8(2), Article 10(8) and Article 16(2) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or by the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council, or if before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.

Added:Article 22 Committee procedure

Added:1. The Commission shall be assisted by the committee on driving licences. That committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011.

Added:2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.

Added:Where the opinion of the committee is to be obtained by written procedure, that procedure shall be terminated without result when, within the time limit for delivery of the opinion, the chair of the committee so decides or a simple majority of committee members so request.

Added:Where the committee delivers no opinion, the Commission shall not adopt the implementing act and Article 5(4), third subparagraph, of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.

Added:3. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 8 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.

Added:Article 23 Amendments to Directive (EU) 2022/2561

Added:Directive (EU) 2022/2561 is amended as follows:

Added:(1) In Article 5(2) of Directive (EU) 2022/2561, the following point (c) is added:

Added:‘(c) from the age of 17, a vehicle in licence category Ccategories C and C1, provided they hold a CPC as referred to in Article 6(1) and only under the conditions laid down in Article 14(2) of Directive [REFERENCE-TO-THIS-DIRECTIVE];’’ [Am. 135]

Added:(2) In Article 5, paragraph 3, point (a) is replaced by following:

Added:‘(a) from the age of 21:

Added:(i) a vehicle in driving licence categories D and D + E provided that they hold a CPC as referred to in Article 6(2).

Added:Any Member State may authorise drivers of vehicles in driving licence categories D1 and D1 + E to drive such vehicles within its territory from the age of 18, provided that they hold a CPC as referred to in Article 6(1).

Added:Any Member State may lower the minimum age for categories D and DE for professional bus and coach drivers to:

Added:- 19 years on their territory, provided that drivers have undergone a full professional training and are holders of CPC in accordance with Article 6(1), of Directive (EU) 2022/2561;

Added:- 18 years on their territory, provided that drivers have undergone a full professional training and are holders of CPC in accordance with Article 6(1), of Directive (EU) 2022/2561, and drive such vehicles without passengers or on lines of less than 50 km with passengers.

Added:(ii) a vehicle in driving licence categories D and D + E, provided that they hold a CPC as referred to in Article 6(1).

Added:Any Member State may lower the minimum age for categories D and DE for professional bus and coach drivers to:

Added:- 19 years on their territory, provided that drivers have undergone a full professional training and are holders of CPC in accordance with Article 6(1), of Directive (EU) 2022/2561;

Added:- 18 years on their territory, provided that drivers have undergone a full professional training and are holders of CPC in accordance with Article 6(1), of Directive (EU) 2022/2561, and drive such vehicles without passengers or on lines of less than 50 km with passengers.’ [Am. 322]

Added:(3) In Article 5, paragraph 3, point (b) is deleted. [Am. 323]

Added:Article 24 Amendments to Regulation (EU) 2018/1724

Added:Annex II of Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 is amended as follows:

Added:(a) in the second column, belonging to the row ‘Moving’, the following cell is added: ‘Acquiring and renewing a driving licence’;

Added:(b) in the third column, belonging to the row ‘Moving’, the following cell is added: ‘Issuance, exchange and replacement of EU driving licences’.

Added:Article 25 Transposition

Added:1. Without prejudice to paragraph 1a, Member States shall adopt and publish, by [date-of-adoption+2 years] at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions. [Am. 324]

Added:Without prejudice to paragraph 1a, they shall apply those provisions as from [date-of-adoption+3 years]. [Am. 325]

Added:When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

Added:1a. Member States shall adopt and publish, by [date-of-adoption+4 months] at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Article 9 paragraph 2 of this Directive.

Added:They shall apply those provisions from [date-of-adoption+4 months]. [Am. 326]

Added:2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Added:Article 26 Repeal

Added:1. Directive 2006/126/EC is repealed with effect from [date-of-adoption+3 years].

Added:References made to Directive 2006/126/EC shall be construed as references to this Directive and be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex VII.

Added:2. Regulation (EU) No 383/2012 is repealed with effect from [date-of-adoption+3 years].

Added:3. References made Regulation (EU) No 383/2012 shall be construed as references to Annex I, Part B, to this Directive, and be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex VII.

Added:Article 27 Entry into force

Added:This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Added:Article 28 Addressees

Added:This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Added:Done at …,

Added:For the European Parliament For the Council

Added:The President The President