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Revision allowed on EU driving licence recognition issue

BVerwG 3 B 53/09Bverwg / Division 3Jan 18, 2010Granted

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The Federal Administrative Court held that the case has fundamental importance. Revision was to clarify whether deficiencies shown in a medical-psychological report, obtained because of a pre-licence drunk-driving incident, may justify denying a holder of an EU driving licence the right to use that licence in Germany, taking EU-law requirements into account.

Omnilex headnote

§ 132 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 VwGO; admissibility of revision for fundamental importance in EU driving licence cases. Fundamental importance exists where a case raises an unresolved question of law whose clarification in revision is foreseeable and of general relevance. This is so in particular where the compatibility of national rules on denial of the right to use a foreign EU driving licence with European-law requirements depends on whether fitness defects established by a medical-psychological report, commissioned in connection with an earlier drunk-driving incident predating the foreign licence, can justify such denial (consid. 1).

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BVerwG — 3 B 53/09, Beschluss

Entscheidungsdatum: 2010-01-18

Aktenzeichen: 3 B 53/09

Dokumenttyp: Beschluss

Normen: § 132 Abs 2 Nr 1 VwGO, § 46 Abs 5 FeV

Vorinstanz: vorgehend Hessischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof, 15. Mai 2009, Az: 2 A 2203/08, Urteil

Spruchkörper: 3. Senat

Titelzeile

Aberkennung des Rechts, von einer ausländischen EU-Fahrerlaubnis im Inland Gebrauch zu machen; Eignungsmängel gemäß medizinisch-psychologischem Gutachten; Revisionszulassung

Gründe

1 Die Sache hat grundsätzliche Bedeutung (§ 132 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 VwGO). Im Revisionsverfahren kann voraussichtlich unter anderem die Frage geklärt werden, ob Eignungsmängel, die sich aus einem vom Inhaber einer EU-Fahrerlaubnis vorgelegten medizinisch-psychologischen Gutachten ergeben, das mit Blick auf eine vor der Erteilung der ausländischen Fahrerlaubnis vorgefallenen Trunkenheitsfahrt angefordert worden war, unter Berücksichtigung der europarechtlichen Vorgaben zur Aberkennung des Rechts führen, von dieser Fahrerlaubnis im Bundesgebiet Gebrauch zu machen.

Keywords

driving licenceEU lawmedical-psychological reportfitness to driverevision admissibilityfundamental importance

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Key legal questions extracted by Omnilex

Key legal question

Whether the case warrants admission of revision because it raises a question of fundamental importance under Section 132(2)(1) VwGO.

Extracted holding

Yes. The court found that the case is of fundamental importance because revision should clarify whether fitness defects identified in a medical-psychological report, obtained due to an earlier drunk-driving incident before issuance of the foreign EU licence, can justify denial of the right to use that licence in Germany in light of EU law.

Extracted reasoning

The unresolved interaction between domestic driving-licence law and European-law limits on refusing recognition of an EU licence justifies revision.

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