Stockholm – The Swedish authority Transportstyrelsen desires to cease so-called driving license tourism.
Amongst different issues, they need it to require an authorized driving check in an EEA nation to have the ability to alternate it for a Swedish driving license.
In response to Transportstyrelsen, there are clear indications that hundreds of registered Swedes journey to different EEA nations yearly to get a third-country driving license exchanged for a European one. A number of different European nations have extra beneficiant alternate guidelines than Sweden.
Again in Sweden, a change to a Swedish driving license is then requested – one thing Transportstyrelsen can not deny if the individual is completely resident in Sweden.
In an evaluation, Transportstyrelsen estimates that round 3,000 individuals in Sweden final yr might have obtained their driving licenses with out having taken a legitimate driving check. In a submission to the federal government, the authority now desires to see a number of adjustments to scale back driving license tourism.
Members of the EEA are the EU member nations in addition to Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein.
(September 30)
