In order to ensure uniform rights across the Union, without prejudice to considerations of road safety, driving licences of categories AM, A1, A2, A, B1, B and BE should have an administrative validity of 15 years, while driving licences of categories C, CE, C1, C1E, D, DE, D1 and D1E should have an administrative validity of five years. Nevertheless, Member States should be allowed to apply a validity period of 10 years instead of 15 years if the driving licence is also used as a personal identification document. Following the framework already in force, which enables Member States to increase the renewal frequency with advancing age, the general validity length could be reduced on the basis of objective factors with a general link to average physical and mental conditions of drivers, such as age, and Member States should be allowed to define shorter validity periods than those provided for in this Directive in exceptional cases, as set out by this Directive.
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