Fifth Act amending the Road Traffic Act and other road traffic legislation

1. Introduced
2. Committee
3. Floor
4. Passed
5. LawVerkündung: BGBl I 2026, 316

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22 Oct 2026Verkündung: BGBl I 2026, 316

Regulatory measures in road traffic law to further digitize administration: expansion of the temporary digital registration certificate Part I into a general regulation; introduction of the digital driving licence as a supplementary document to the card-format driving licence; enabling digital parking enforcement; creating a basis that implements EU requirements and complies with the General Data Protection Regulation for the Federal Motor Transport Authority to provide information from the Central Database of Certificates of Conformity using the vehicle identification number (FIN), and enabling digital information retrieval based on the FIN from the so-called recall database; extending automated access to information from the Central Vehicle Register (ZFZR) to the Federal Environment Agency and the Federal Highway Research Institute; aligning the terminology for “highly or fully automated” driving functions with international standards; creating an administrative fine provision to prevent the so-called points trading; relaxing the power to issue ordinances granting parking privileges; clarifications, consequential amendments, editorial changes; Insertion, amendment and repeal of numerous sections in 2 acts and 3 ordinances Reference: Directive (EU) 2025/2205 of 22 October 2025 on driving licences, amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 and Directive (EU) 2022/2561 and repealing Directive 2006/126/EC and Regulation (EU) No 383/2012 (OJ L 2025/2205, 05.11.2025, p. 1); Regulation (EU) 2018/858 of 30 May 2018 on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, amending Regulations (EC) No 715/2007 and (EC) No 595/2009 and repealing Directive 2007/46/EC (OJ L 151, 14.06.2018, p. 1) Agreements in the coalition agreement on digital administration and reducing bureaucracy Resubmission of the bill in BR-Drs 92/25 (GESTA 20th electoral term J035) in amended form Committee recommendation: expanding the groups of people potentially eligible for privileges in resident parking, for example to include tradespeople and care services; reducing the technical effort involved in storing licence plate numbers; expanding record-keeping requirements for video monitoring; extending the punishment of points trading to the private sphere; extending the limitation period for prosecuting traffic offences to six months; enabling other states to voluntarily recognise the digital driving licence; authorising the Federal Motor Transport Authority to process further information for creating the digital driving licence and operating the user application; issuing the licence without a photograph during a transitional period; consequential amendment, editorial correction; adoption of a resolution: submission of a factual and science-based basis for decision-making on rules of conduct and sanctions concerning the use of bicycles and pedelecs in road traffic, in particular examination of lowering the blood alcohol limit and introducing an administrative fine provision; amendment of the Road Traffic Regulations to strengthen the protection of emergency responders: mandatory speed reductions and distance rules when passing emergency sites, creation of an administrative offence; Additional amendment to § 63 and further amendment of various sections of the Road Traffic Act, § 4 of the Driving Licence Ordinance and § 16 of the Autonomous Vehicle Approval and Operation Ordinance

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