Vienna City Guide

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Vienna City Guide

Documents to provide for the driving license application:

1. Original registration form (plus 1 copy)

2. Original passport (plus 2 copies from the page with photo and residence permit/visa)

3. Application form

4. Austrian health certificate not older than 18 months (plus 1 copy; for this certificate, a

physical examination conducted by an authorised Austrian physician must be passed. A

list of these physicians is available at the traffic office. If you wear contact lenses, it might

be recommendable to have an eye specialist issue a confirmation that you wear contact

lenses and bring this to the authorised physician.)

5. Original driving license (plus 2 copies – in case of a chip card: copies of both sides)

6. Translation of the original driving license

7. 1 passport size photo (in accordance with the passport photo requirements)

8. only if a practical test is required:

Confirmation by signature (on a form for the practical test) that the owner of the

respective car agrees that the car is used for the practical driving test

9. only if a practical test is required:

The appropriate documents of the car mentioned under no. 8: original confirmation of the

latest technical check according to § 57a (the so-called “Pickerl”; only if the car is older

than 3 years; plus 1 copy) + original car license / car registration document (the yellow

“Zulassungsschein”; plus 1 copy)

Estimated Costs: The fee for the Austrian driving license amounts to approx. € 60.50 and

the fee for the health certificate to approx. € 35 (for car class B). These fees do not include

the fee for the practical test.

Car Registration

General information

If you bring a car from your home country to your new permanent residence in Austria,

please be aware that your car has to be registered in Austria within one month.

New and used imported cars are treated differently regarding taxes and registration. The

Austrian government differentiates between new and used cars in the following manner:

A new car has a mileage of less than 6000 kilometers or has been registered for less

than six months in the former country of residence

A used car has a mileage of more than 6000 kilometers and has been registered for

more than six months in the former country of residence.

Import from an EU Country

A car imported from an EU country will need to have a license plate and a valid insurance. It

is possible to obtain a temporary license plate for the transfer of the car

(“Überstellungskennzeichen”) in the EU home country or to keep the regular foreign license

plate.

Once in Austria, the data of cars with an “EU-Betriebserlaubnis” (EU-Permit) first need to be

entered into the approval database (by the car manufacturer’s general importer or the local

technical inspection authority) for the typification. For cars without an EU-Permit a single

vehicle approval (“Einzelgenehmigung”) needs to be obtained at the local technical

inspection authority.