New Important Info for Driving in Europe

[DianneT]

I have friends who have been and got their new Licences to drive in Europe after Brexit.

Quite easy to do just go to your local Post Office to get it.

Details as below.

Members
I got this yesterday. I have changed the date as new derails from Brussels tonight.
Anyone driving from UK to Europe especially France MUST get a new international license code 1968. Take your license and one PP size pic to the main post office. It costs you £5.50 and you will be issued with license straight away. This MUST be done before 12th April otherwise you will have to do theory and practical for licene in whatever country you wish to drive in after 12th April . Also without international licence your insurance is not valid.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/internationa...march-2019

DianneT

[Navigator]

That reads as if IDPs will not be available in the UK after 12th April. Surely that cannot be correct?

There IS a date after which UK people living inside the other bits of the EU will not be able to do a straight swap of a UK licence for one issued by the country in which they live, should there be a "no-deal" exit. If anyone residing in the remainder of the EU does do the driving tests, or makes a swap, in an EU country that is not the UK, the licence they get will be valid in every other remaining EU country (and probably the UK aswell!)

IDPs have been required for almost every country outside the EU since they came into being, and still will be whatever form of EU-exit actually happens.

[DianneT]

That reads as if IDPs will not be available in the UK after 12th April.  Surely that cannot be correct?  

There IS a date after which UK people living inside the other bits of the EU will not be able to do a straight swap of a UK licence for one issued by the country in which they live, should there be a "no-deal" exit. If anyone residing in the remainder of the EU does do the driving tests, or makes a swap, in an EU country that is not the UK, the licence they get will be valid in every other remaining EU country (and probably the UK aswell!)

IDPs have been required for almost every country outside the EU since they came into being, and still will be whatever form of EU-exit actually happens.

The actual date will be the day we leave the EU not known yet. I think there needs to be more clarification from UK Gov website.

[Lutz]

That reads as if IDPs will not be available in the UK after 12th April.  Surely that cannot be correct?  

There IS a date after which UK people living inside the other bits of the EU will not be able to do a straight swap of a UK licence for one issued by the country in which they live, should there be a "no-deal" exit. If anyone residing in the remainder of the EU does do the driving tests, or makes a swap, in an EU country that is not the UK, the licence they get will be valid in every other remaining EU country (and probably the UK aswell!)

IDPs have been required for almost every country outside the EU since they came into being, and still will be whatever form of EU-exit actually happens.

The actual date will be the day we leave the EU not known yet.  I think there needs to be more clarification from UK Gov website.

The government website hasn't been updated yet since it became clear that the 29th March is not the date, so there may be new open issues that need clarification.

Just as a note on the side, outside the UK those countries that have been issuing the 1968 version of an IDP issue only that version and don't even make a 1949 one available, so the date on the IDP can't be problem issue.

No-one over here on the Continent has been warned that EU style licences issued in the UK, but held by residents of the EU will cease to be valid, so there too, the information put out by the government seems to be overshooting the mark a bit.

[DianneT]

That reads as if IDPs will not be available in the UK after 12th April.  Surely that cannot be correct?  

There IS a date after which UK people living inside the other bits of the EU will not be able to do a straight swap of a UK licence for one issued by the country in which they live, should there be a "no-deal" exit. If anyone residing in the remainder of the EU does do the driving tests, or makes a swap, in an EU country that is not the UK, the licence they get will be valid in every other remaining EU country (and probably the UK aswell!)

IDPs have been required for almost every country outside the EU since they came into being, and still will be whatever form of EU-exit actually happens.

The actual date will be the day we leave the EU not known yet.  I think there needs to be more clarification from UK Gov website.

The government website hasn't been updated yet since it became clear that the 29th March is not the date, so there may be new open issues that need clarification.

Just as a note on the side, outside the UK those countries that have been issuing the 1968 version of an IDP issue only that version and don't even make a 1949 one available, so the date on the IDP can't be problem issue.

No-one over here on the Continent has been warned that EU style licences issued in the UK, but held by residents of the EU will cease to be valid, so there too, the information put out by the government seems to be overshooting the mark a bit.

Yes Lutz I think you are right nothing really concrete yet.

Dianne

[Navigator]

There are a lot of 28th/29th Marchs in this, not just 2019!