G&N Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Hello,What happens to any penalty points you have on your UK licence if you change it to a French licence (permis de conduire)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vette Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 In short. Nothing. In France you start with 12 points and have them deducted for offences, whereas in the UK, as you probably know, they are added.They are for UK offences so are not recognised in France. You will end up with a clean licence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Even though you no longer have it points remain on a UK licence until they expire regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G&N Posted July 19, 2015 Author Share Posted July 19, 2015 Yes I have heard that they call it a ghost licence incase you should return to the UK, you then still have the points.However that is not of interest in my case. Has anyone first hand experience of changing a UK licence with points to a french licence and found their new permit de conduire to be clean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kong Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Yes and no and no.I had points on my UK licence which had expired (visible on the the now non existent counterpart). Nothing was transfered. And it can't be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 There is no mechanism for transferring penalty points from one to the other nor can there be when you have one system awarding a minimum of 3 points which run for 3 years and another deducting 1 point out of 12 for the the self same offence, and then giving it back after 6 months if you don't get caught again in that time.Absent a full and genuine harmonisation of European licences with all members adopting a common system that will never change and frankly that's unlikely to be happening in anybody's lifetime - if ever ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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