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Public services · Driving and vehicles

Licences and roadworthiness — facilitation

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Living in the northDelivered85/100

The Republic of Cyprus makes roadworthiness certificates, authorisations and professional driving licences available to Turkish Cypriots free of charge, on application forms translated into Turkish. The European Commission's twenty-second Green Line report, covering 2025, records the facilitation unchanged. No figure documents take-up.12

Basis and sources

Legal anchor Directive 2006/126/EC on driving licences; Directive 2009/103/EC on motor insurance; Green Line Regulation (EC) No 866/2004

Sources for this criterion

  1. 1. Twentieth report on the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 866/2004, covering 1 January to 31 December 2023A — primary / documentary · European Commission · 2024-07-04
  2. 2. Twenty-second Green Line Regulation report, COM(2026) 324 final (covering 2025)A — primary / documentary · European Commission · 2026-06-30
Stated position of the duty-bearer — Original

Vehicles and drivers entering the government-controlled areas must meet EU roadworthiness, insurance and professional-competence standards, which cannot be certified by authorities in the north; the Republic accordingly offers its own certification free of charge and in Turkish.

— Republic of Cyprus, stated position as recorded in Cyprus Rights reference register

Status partially addressedWeight 2/5Score 85

Sources

  1. Twentieth report on the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 866/2004, covering 1 January to 31 December 2023A — primary / documentaryEuropean Commission · 2024-07-04The European Commission's twentieth annual report on implementation of the Green Line Regulation, covering 2023.COM(2024) 265 final, Brussels, 4 July 2024https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/6d75c643-ca97-44ff-a2d0-7d452a729423_en?filename=COM_2024_265_1_EN_ACT_part1_v3_0.pdf
  2. Twenty-second Green Line Regulation report, COM(2026) 324 final (covering 2025)A — primary / documentaryEuropean Commission · 2026-06-30The European Commission's twenty-second annual report to the Council on implementation of the Green Line Regulation, COM(2026) 324 final.Twenty-second report on the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 866/2004, COM(2026) 324 final, 30 June 2026, covering 1 January-31 December 2025https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/7e0f3950-fcfa-49a1-913c-fe6ce245141f_en?filename=COM_2026_324_1_EN_ACT_part1_v4.pdf
  3. Turkish Cypriot Rights Issue Register and Legal Framework Register (Cyprus Rights reference corpus)D — open sourceCyprus Rights · 2026-08-24Cyprus Rights' own internal reference corpus of registers tracking Turkish Cypriot rights issues and the applicable legal framework.Cyprus Rights reference corpus, compiled 24 August 2026: internal/reference/rights-issue-register-turkish-cypriot.md and internal/reference/legal-framework-register.md. Cited for duty-bearer positions as the registers record them and for documentation-gap statements; each register entry carries its own underlying sources