This Monday, June 12, 2023 marks a change in the different terms of the precious sesame that is the driving license. Indeed, Parliament has definitively adopted a bill from the supporters of the majority aimed at better informing young people about its financing and at reducing the time before the examination.
70 against 1. It is therefore the last vote retained on the project initiated by the deputy Renaissance of Vienne, Sacha Houlié. The latter wishes to make obtaining the permit “more accessible, faster and cheaper”. The bill also provides for a new digital platform called “a young person, a permit”. This device managed by Pôle emploi, recalls another aid plan: “a young person, a solution”.
The digital platform will also be used to identify all state and community aid. In addition, the candidate will only have to indicate his postal code to find out about the funding available within his department.
The text also opens up funding through the personal training account (CPF) to all types of permits, from January 1, 2024, whereas currently only B permits, heavy goods vehicles and buses are concerned. The CPF made it possible to finance no less than 322,000 driving licenses in 2021, or 28% of the licenses issued that year, two-thirds of the beneficiaries being people under the age of 35.
On the question of deadlines, in order to offer more examination slots, the authorization for public or contractual officials to take the practical test of the permit will be extended to the national level. The senators even make the text more restrictive, by asking for “agents in sufficient number to guarantee that the median period between two” passages of the permit by the same candidate “does not exceed forty-five days”. Something to make some of the candidates smile, often faced with a long wait, on the sidelines of the exam.
