Digital transformation is one of the Union’s priorities. In the case of road transport, it contributes to removing the remaining administrative barriers to the free movement of persons, such as those relating to the time it takes to issue physical driving licences. Therefore, a separate Union standard should be established for mobile driving licences issued within the Union. In order to facilitate digitalisation, mobile driving licences should be the default format issued to applicants effective from a date 54 months from the date of the adoption of the first of the implementing acts necessary for the introduction of mobile driving licences, without prejudice to the applicant’s right to obtain the driving licence in either a physical format or in both formats through one and the same application at the same time. Member States have the possibility to issue mobile driving licences before the date when the digital format becomes the default format.
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