International Driving Permit

An International Driving Permit is a document issued by the road authorities of a country due to intergovernmental agreements. He in particular to allow the police of another country, the determination of whether a foreign motorist has a driving license, which is required for his current vehicle.

International driver's license in Germany, pages 6 and 7

Intergovernmental Agreement

The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic controls in Chapter IV ( drivers of motor vehicles ) in Article 41 ( driving licenses), the exhibition International driving licenses. Germany is one of the signatories to this Agreement. It is now widely obsolete since most EU signatory states are parties and thus the respective national driving licenses are valid throughout the EU anyway.

In parallel, there is a second agreement, the " Geneva Convention relative to motor vehicle traffic " (12 August 1949). It shall comprise mainly the American nations, as well as African and Asian countries. Thus, there are two groups of states, each having a different " international driving license " issue or accept, but not the particular " international driving license " of the other group. For a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany, it is thus, for example, not possible to obtain a legally accepted in the United States, international driver's license. The International driver's license after the " Vienna Convention", but is generally accepted in conjunction with a valid EU driving license by local U.S. authorities as a gesture of goodwill.

Vienna Convention

Here An International Driving licenses shall by ( 5 ) " shall be issued only to the holder of a national license for whose acquisition the specific minimum requirements in this Agreement have been met. An International Driving Permit may be issued only by the Party in whose territory the holder has his normal residence and has also issued the national driver's license or a recognized issued by another Contracting Party license; he has in this field not valid. "

Under ( 2.4 a ), the Parties acknowledge that:

  • "i ) any national driving license in the Annex 6;
  • Ii) any international driver's license, which corresponds to Annex 7 when it is presented together with the corresponding national driving license as valid to lead in their field a vehicle that belongs to the classes that are subject to the licenses provided that the licenses are still valid and have been issued by another Contracting Party or any of its subdivisions or by an association that has been authorized to do so by such other Party or one of its sub-regions "

Format and content of the license stipulated in the Annex 7 of the Convention.

For Germany, the copy of International Driving licenses in § 25a and § 25b is controlled driving license regulations ( FeV ).

Classes

The license classes according to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic correspond to those of the EU license:

The older International Convention relative to Motor vehicle traffic in 1926 recognizes the following three classes:

Situation in individual countries

  • The situation in Germany see driver's license and driving license ( Germany ) # International Driving
  • The situation in Austria see driver's license and driving license ( Austria ) # International Driving
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