The accompanied driving scheme could, without prejudice to its overall goal of improving road safety, contribute to making the profession of truck driver more accessible and appealing to younger generations, in order to broaden their occupational possibilities, and to help tackle the driver shortage within the Union. Therefore, Member States should have the possibility to apply that scheme to driving licences of categories C1, C1E and C in addition to the driving licences of category B, and the driving licences issued accordingly should be mutually recognised among those Member States applying that larger scope to the scheme.
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