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Uptake of the certification facilitation

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The only take-up figures located are in the Republic's own statement of July 2004: 839 ordinary driving licences issued or renewed and 72,476 temporary road-use licences in the first fourteen months after the crossing points opened. That is the duty-bearer's own figure, and it is two decades old. Nothing current is published.12

Basis and sources

Legal anchor Green Line Regulation (EC) No 866/2004; Directive 2006/126/EC; the facilitation arrangements recorded in COM(2024) 265 final

Sources for this criterion

  1. 1. RoC UN Mission statement on movement measures for Turkish Cypriot vehicles (2004 uptake figures)A — primary / documentary · Permanent Mission of the Republic of Cyprus to the United Nations · 2004-07-30
  2. 2. Turkish Cypriot Rights Issue Register and Legal Framework Register (Cyprus Rights reference corpus)D — open source · Cyprus Rights · 2026-08-24

Status undocumentedWeight 2/5Score Insufficiently documented — no score

Sources

  1. RoC UN Mission statement on movement measures for Turkish Cypriot vehicles (2004 uptake figures)A — primary / documentaryPermanent Mission of the Republic of Cyprus to the United Nations · 2004-07-30An official statement by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Cyprus to the United Nations on movement measures for Turkish Cypriot vehicles.Official RoC statement, 30 July 2004 — the duty-bearer's own figures for April 2003-June 2004: 839 ordinary driving licences issued or renewed; 72,476 temporary road-use licences; a stated position and historical baseline, not a current figurehttps://www.cyprusun.org/?p=890
  2. 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