The Commission welcomes the provisional agreement reached yesterday between the European Parliament and the Council on its initiative to modernising EU driving licence rules.
The original toot by @EUCommission
The Commission welcomes the provisional agreement reached yesterday between the European Parliament and the Council on its initiative to modernising EU driving licence rules.
The original toot by @EUCommission
As I read it, at least the physical license will remain issued by member states. It’s a standardisation of license rules and an app (which is probably offered by EU).
(Personally, I’m not sure this is all that important in light of the problems EU is otherwise faced with, and I really hope licenses will remain a national document – recall when Brexit Britain under Johnson didn’t recognise EU in a diplomatic role since it isn’t a “country” – but so be it.)
Even in US, the licenses are issued by the states.
EU isn’t equivalent to the states (yet). It’s a loose’ish unions of nations. Passports are nation-issued, as are most professional credentials, but everything is recognised intra-union. In US (and Australia), passports are issued centrally, states are more like a local subdivision, irrelevant abroad.
US driving licenses are admittedly state issued. I suspect it’s more about violation points than anything else. And there’s a drive towards a federal format there as well.
(Sorry if I’m simplifying here.)