Thursday, December 29, 2016

Driving licence. What changes from January – Diário de Notícias – Lisbon

Address of the driver will be removed from the face of the card and shall be used on the basis of data from the citizen card

The drivers will leave, already from January, change the licence when you change address, you going to have the one that is registered on the citizen card, has today been announced.

This is one of the measures of change to the issuance of bonds, driving, project titled by the Government “letter on wheels” and integrated in the Simplex programme, today presented at the Institute for Mobility and Transport (IMT).

According to the IMT, the information relative to the address of the driver is removed from the face of the driving licence, going on to appear only on the basis of data from the IMT, being the one that is listed in the citizen card.

in Other news, also from 02 January, goes through the renewal or replacement of driving licence through the internet, thereby allowing the driver a 10 percent discount if you carry out this procedure online and it does not move a counter of the IMT.

The renewal or replacement of driving licence has a cost of 30 euros.

The term of validity of driving licences will also increase from ten to 15 years, in the case of the conductors up to the age of 60 years, while keeping unchanged the deadline for the remaining situations.

Another of the measures, but that will only come into force in April, relates to the medical certificates, that are going to be transmitted electronically by the Ministry of Health to the IMT, enabling the automatic registration of medical testing performed on the driver, with the eventual registration of the restrictions.

The medical certificate shall be required only for the reinstatement of the 60 years and later.

To the minister for Planning and Infrastructure, Pedro Marques, this is a “radical transformation” and the new procedures will allow to reduce the waiting times for the appointments.

As an example, reported that, in 2015, there was a million attendances for renewal or replacement of driving licence and change of address.

Pedro Marques said to journalists that “all these acts are no longer necessary”, as is the case of the change of address, and others are going to be made online.

“people can now do online, all what they did in person, and several of these substances are no longer required, as is the case of address on driving licence,” he said, advancing that the new securities did not already have the address included.

According to the minister, ceases to be relevant in the cases of driving licences current that have the address included.

“the point Of view legal this address no longer has relevance”, he said.

“The great digital transformation of care occurs from 02 January, citizens will now be able to use the online services to renew the licence. At the end of the first quarter, we have available the electronic transmission of medical certificate from the Ministry of Health directly to the IMT,” he said.

On the medical certificates, the ruler ensured that the transparency will increase, passing all the information “to be recorded by computer”.

“from The time that the transmission is electronic and the paper disappears all the control and security is much greater because all of the acts and medical information to the IMT shall be registered,” he said.

Pedro Marques has highlighted the effort that the IMT has done to reduce wait times for care, as well as the deadlines for the issuance of driving licences.

according To the minister, the average times of waiting for service were reduced by about an hour for about half an hour in the posts subject to the system of management of waiting queues.

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