Driving capacity of diabetics against the background of legal principles

Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie
S Becker

Abstract

Within the conversion of the 2nd Council Directive on Driving Licences of the Council of the European Communities (91/439/EEC) into national law, changes became necessary to the Road Traffic Act (StVG) and a new Driving Licence Ordinance (FeV) was created which has been in force since 01.01.1999 (Federal Law Gazette, 1998, Part I No. 55, 26. August 1998). Both in Annex III of the EC Directive and in Annex 4 of the Driving Licence Ordinance, statements are made with regard to the driving capability of diabetics. Besides this legal basis for evaluating capacity to drive a motor vehicle, the appraisal guidelines (Begutachtungs-Leitlinien zur Kraftfahrereignung) established in commission of the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing are to be understood as a set of rules which are outside the framework of actual legal statute as such and which are intended to support assessors in making decisions in individual cases. When considering whether an appraisal of driving capacity has to take place, in particular a difference is made between the different classes of vehicle. For motor cycles and passenger cars (Classes A and B), it will also be the case in future that a medical examination will only be ordered if there...Continue Reading

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