Driving licence

	Fitness to drive

Reports of the medical working groups

In 2002 the expert members of the Driving Licence Committee expressed the opinion that the Annex III of Directive 91/439/EEC on driving licences has to be updated. Annex III is dealing with minimum standards of physical and mental fitness for driving a power-driven vehicle and, in fact, its contents are based on decisions made more than twenty years ago. There was therefore a need to find more consistency between the legislation and the current medical knowledge.

Thus according to a request of the Driving Licence Committee in 2003, three priority items have been addressed regarding the fitness to drive: eyesight, epilepsy and diabetes. In this context three specialised medical groups of physicians representing their Member State have been set up and worked between March 2004 and June 2005. You will find below the results, conclusions and recommendations of the eyesight and epilepsy working groups in their final reports which remain for the moment working documents.

The opinions expressed in the studies are those of the consultant and do not necessarily represent the position of the Commission.

• New standards for the visual functions of drivers (526 KB)

• Epilepsy and Driving in Europe (1,8 MB)