This Directive establishes a legal basis for the storage of an obligatory set of personal data in physical driving licences and their microchips or QR codes, and in mobile driving licences, for the purposes of proving and verifying a person’s right to drive and identity, in order to guarantee a high level of road safety throughout the Union. Such data should be limited to what is necessary to prove a person’s right to drive, identify that person, and verify that person’s driving rights and identity. The storage and other processing of those data needs to comply with, in particular, Article 6(1), point (e), and, in respect of biometric data, Article 9(2), point (g), of Regulation (EU) 2016/679. This Directive also provides for additional safeguards to ensure the protection of personal data disclosed to, and retained by, a verifier during the verification process. In particular, the verifier should only be able to retain such data if authorised to do so by Union or national law; for instance, a police officer might be authorised to include driving licence data in a police report, or a rental company might be authorised to fill in driving licence data in a vehicle rental contract.
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