Case C-419/10

Wolfgang Hofmann

v

Freistaat Bayern

(Reference for a preliminary rulingfrom the Bayerischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof)

‛Directive 2006/126/EC — Mutual recognition of driving licences — Refusal by a Member State to recognise, in favour of a person whose driving licence was withdrawn on its territory, the validity of a driving licence issued by another Member State’

Summary of the Judgment

Transport — Road transport — Driving licences — Directive 2006/126 — Mutual recognition of driving licences — Withdrawal of driving licence in the Member State, coupled with a temporary prohibition of obtaining a new licence — Licence issued in another Member State after the end of the period of temporary prohibition

(European Parliament and Council Directive 2006/126, Arts 2(1) and 11(4))

Articles 2(1) and 11(4), second subparagraph, of Directive 2006/126 on driving licences must be interpreted as precluding a Member State from refusing, outside any period of prohibition of applying for a new driving licence imposed on the holder of a driving licence issued by another Member State and when the condition of normal residence in the territory of the latter has been observed, to recognise the validity of that driving licence, when that holder has been subject, in the territory of the first Member State, to a measure withdrawing a previous driving licence.

(see para. 91, operative part)

Case C-419/10

Wolfgang Hofmann

v

Freistaat Bayern

(Reference for a preliminary rulingfrom the Bayerischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof)

‛Directive 2006/126/EC — Mutual recognition of driving licences — Refusal by a Member State to recognise, in favour of a person whose driving licence was withdrawn on its territory, the validity of a driving licence issued by another Member State’

Summary of the Judgment

Transport — Road transport — Driving licences — Directive 2006/126 — Mutual recognition of driving licences — Withdrawal of driving licence in the Member State, coupled with a temporary prohibition of obtaining a new licence — Licence issued in another Member State after the end of the period of temporary prohibition

(European Parliament and Council Directive 2006/126, Arts 2(1) and 11(4))

Articles 2(1) and 11(4), second subparagraph, of Directive 2006/126 on driving licences must be interpreted as precluding a Member State from refusing, outside any period of prohibition of applying for a new driving licence imposed on the holder of a driving licence issued by another Member State and when the condition of normal residence in the territory of the latter has been observed, to recognise the validity of that driving licence, when that holder has been subject, in the territory of the first Member State, to a measure withdrawing a previous driving licence.

(see para. 91, operative part)