Article 1
Open ↗Annex II to Directive 2006/126/EC is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Directive.
Source
Commission Directive (EU) 2020/612 of 4 May 2020 amending Directive 2006/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on driving licences (Text with EEA relevance)
Commission Directive (EU) 2020/612 of 4 May 2020 amending Directive 2006/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on driving licences (Text with EEA relevance)
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Article 2
Open ↗1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by 1 November 2020 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions. They shall apply those provisions from 1 November 2020. When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made. 2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
Article 3
Open ↗This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
Article 4
Open ↗This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Supplementary provisions
ANNEXSupplementary provisions
Open ↗ANNEX Annex II to Directive 2006/126/EC is amended as follows: (a) Point 5.1.3 is replaced by the following: ‘5.1.3. Specific provisions concerning vehicles of category BE, C, CE, C1, C1E, D, DE, D1 and D1E Member States may decide that no restriction to vehicles with automatic transmission shall be recorded on the driving licence for a category BE, C, CE, C1, C1E, D, DE, D1 or D1E vehicle referred to in point 5.1.2, when the applicant already holds a driving licence obtained on a vehicle with manual transmission in at least one of the following categories: B, BE, C, CE, C1, C1E, D, DE, D1 or D1E, and has performed the actions described in point 8.4 during the test of skills and behaviour.’; (b) in point 5.2, the second subparagraph of the second subtitle ‘Category A2’ is replaced by the following: ‘If the motorcycle is powered by an internal combustion engine, the cubic capacity of the engine shall be at least 250 cm 3 .’.
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