{"id":220,"date":"2023-04-11T18:20:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambnicosia.esteri.it\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-italiano\/autoveicoli-e-patenti-di-guida\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T13:31:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T10:31:12","slug":"autoveicoli-e-patenti-di-guida","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ambnicosia.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-italiano\/autoveicoli-e-patenti-di-guida\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor vehicles and driving licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you travel to an EU Member State or a country belonging to EEA for short periods of time, you may use your Italian driving licence because, in accordance with the EU Directive 2006\/126\/EC of December 20, 2006, EU Member States and countries belonging to EEA recognise the driving licences issued by their respective authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, if you take up your residence in an EU\/EEA country, you have three options available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to convert your Italian driving licence into an equivalent one from your country of residence (this is an option, not an obligation);<\/li>\n<li>to keep your own driving licence by having it recognised by the authorities of the State in which you reside (where provided for by local legislation);<\/li>\n<li>to keep your original driving licence without doing anything about it. In the latter case, however, there may be inconveniences or delays when a duplicate shall be issued due to loss, theft or destruction of the document, since you need to request information from the State that originally issued the driving licence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In order to request both conversion (which consists in issuing a new driving licence) and recognition, the driving licence shall be in progress of validity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You may renew your Italian driving licence by applying only to the local authorities<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/europa.eu\/youreurope\/citizens\/vehicles\/driving-licence\/driving-licence-renewal\/index_en.htm\">https:\/\/europa.eu\/youreurope\/citizens\/vehicles\/driving-licence\/driving-licence-renewal\/index_en.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you travel to an EU Member State or a country belonging to EEA for short periods of time, you may use your Italian driving licence because, in accordance with the EU Directive 2006\/126\/EC of December 20, 2006, EU Member States and countries belonging to EEA recognise the driving licences issued by their respective authorities. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":205,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-220","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambnicosia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambnicosia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambnicosia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambnicosia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambnicosia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ambnicosia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambnicosia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambnicosia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}