The Republic of Moldova has three agreements on the recognition and conversion of driver’s licenses, with Italy, Turkey and Lithuania. It also signed a statement of intent with the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure of Germany on the procedure for exchanging driver’s licenses.
Also, the driver’s licenses issued in Moldova are recognized in a number of states based on the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic of 1968. These states are: Portugal, Estonia, Belgium, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, the Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Slovenia, and Qatar.
“In accordance with its program, the Government concentrates its efforts on the support for the citizens of the Republic of Moldova who settled abroad and on the establishment of good neighborly relations between the Republic of Moldova and the European states so as to help them, including through the agency of the Ministry of Home Affairs, which makes considerable efforts to advance the bilateral discussions on the conversion of driver’s licenses,” the Minister’s secretary general Sergey Diaconu said in a response to IPN.
The agreements on the conversion of driver’s licenses are bilateral documents signed in written form. They stipulate the conditions in which the sides recognize the driver’s licenses issued by the authorities of a state party and the procedure for converting these without taking additional exams.
Currently, the Ministry of Home Affairs is negotiating draft agreements on the conversion of driver’s licenses with Spain, France, Greece, Latvia and Belarus.
“The Ministry of Home Affairs reiterates the commitment to support the citizens from the diaspora, including by making appropriate efforts to establish and promote bilateral relations with the European states in the conversion of driver’s licenses,” noted Sergey Diaconu.
