Projet de loi modifiant la loi du 16 mars 1968 relative à la police de la circulation routière en ce qui concerne les examens de réintégration après une condamnation à une déchéance du droit de conduire.
General information ¶
- Authors
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Jef
Van den Bergh
N-VA Daphné Dumery
Open Vld Sabien Lahaye-Battheu - Submission date
- March 2, 2017
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- Status
- Adopted
- Requirement
- Simple
- Subjects
- traffic offence driving licence driving instruction road traffic
Voting ¶
- Voted to adopt
- Groen CD&V Vooruit Ecolo LE PS | SP DéFI ∉ Open Vld N-VA MR PVDA | PTB VB
- Abstained from voting
- PP
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Discussion ¶
June 7, 2018 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)
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Rapporteur Emmanuel Burton ⚙
I am referring to the written report.
Sabien Lahaye-Battheu Open Vld ⚙
This legislation is in line with the road safety policy. Since January 2015, the cases in which the court is obliged to impose recovery examinations and examinations after a conviction to expire the right to send have expanded. With recovery examinations, the theoretical and practical driving examinations are meant. The examinations mean medical and psychological tests that convicted persons must undergo before they regain their driving license.
The magistrates are today tied hands and feet and must pass exams for the highest category of driving license that the convicted has. A person who has obtained a driver’s license C is punished more severely than a person who has a regular driver’s license B, even if he or she has committed the violation in private life, for example during a trip out in a regular passenger car.
With this proposal, we give the magistrates more room to punish on a scale. The possibility is introduced to impose examinations for the category of the vehicle with which the infringement was committed. In this way, the link between the infringement, on the one hand, and the punishment, on the other hand, is laid, and more reasonability is brought into the road safety policy.
Regarding the recovery examinations and the examinations, I would also mention that it is important that they run efficiently. I have also previously advocated for a quality standard, such as that exists in other countries. The passing of these exams and examinations has not only a financial, but also a factual impact, in the sense that it often takes longer before one receives the driving license. We must therefore be very cautious, but I think this proposal is a step towards greater rationality in road safety policy.
Jean-Jacques Flahaux MR ⚙
My dear colleagues, the House is preparing today to vote on an important text that is ⁇ important to me and to my party. The bill submitted by my eminent colleague Sabien Lahaye-Battheu aims, in fact, to remedy anomalies that may arise in the context of "reintegration" examinations.
For example, a person punished by a driving ban for all categories of vehicles and engines, who must undergo examinations in order to be reintegrated into the driving license, must present his examinations for the highest category of the driving license he has obtained. This situation seems completely abnormal.
What does this text offer us? The bill now allows judges to subordinate reintegration to the right to lead to the successful completion of the reintegration examination for the category of vehicles with which the offence leading to the default was committed.
My dear colleagues, therefore, this amendment to the law of 16 March 1968 goes by itself and therefore logically responds to a concern of fairness. I would like to congratulate my colleague Sabien Lahaye-Battheu for his bill.