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One EU driving licence will replace the 110 different documents currently in place in the union (Photo: European Community, 2006)

Single driving licence for EU citizens by 2012

A new common driving licence for the EU was approved by transport ministers on Monday (27 March) in a bid to fight fraud and raise road safety across the 25-member bloc.

The new driving licence is to be implemented by member states by 2012 at the latest, and will replace the 110 EU driving licence systems in place today – including one dating from the German Democratic Republic, which reunited with Germany in 1990.

"We needed this new updated system," EU Transport Commissioner Jac...

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One EU driving licence will replace the 110 different documents currently in place in the union (Photo: European Community, 2006)

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