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Document 62020CA0056

Case C-56/20: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 29 April 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof Baden-Württemberg — Germany) — AR v Stadt Pforzheim (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Transport — Driving licences — Mutual recognition — Withdrawal of the licence in the territory of a Member State other than the issuing Member State — Affixing of an endorsement to the driving licence indicating that it is not valid within that Member State)

OJ C 278, 12.7.2021, p. 17–18 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

12.7.2021   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 278/17


Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 29 April 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof Baden-Württemberg — Germany) — AR v Stadt Pforzheim

(Case C-56/20) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Transport - Driving licences - Mutual recognition - Withdrawal of the licence in the territory of a Member State other than the issuing Member State - Affixing of an endorsement to the driving licence indicating that it is not valid within that Member State)

(2021/C 278/23)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Verwaltungsgerichtshof Baden-Württemberg

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: AR

Defendant: Stadt Pforzheim

Operative part of the judgment

Directive 2006/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on driving licences, as amended by Commission Directive 2011/94/EU of 28 November 2011, must be interpreted as precluding a Member State which has adopted, under the second subparagraph of Article 11(4) of that directive, as amended by Directive 2011/94, a decision refusing to recognise the validity of a driving licence issued by another Member State on account of unlawful conduct on the part of its holder, which occurred during a temporary stay in the territory of the first Member State after the issue of that licence, from affixing to that licence also an endorsement indicating a prohibition, for that holder, on driving in that Member State, when that holder has not established his or her normal residence, within the meaning of the first subparagraph of Article 12 of Directive 2006/126, as amended by Directive 2011/94, in the territory of that Member State.


(1)  OJ C 209, 22.6.2020.


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