jpeg wrote:if a resident you have 2 months to change to a spanish licence not 2 years
Can you show where that is written down?
Firstly, this is Spain and I doubt many could actually change their licence within 2 months in the first place. OK, it took me about that long but some people had been waiting for over 6 months for DVLC to provide confirmation.
Secondly, I'd rather read the official bit rather than what some bloke up the pub told me. The Guardia Civil on the N332 site specifically states:
Referring to the period of validity of driving licences, set out in Article 2 Paragraph 2 of the directive (2006/126/CE of the EU and 818/2009 which came into force on Jan 19 2013) where the holder of a valid licence without the administrative validity period specified in paragraph 2 of article 7 (the one that refers to licences with a validity of more than 10 years) the host member state may apply to permit administrative validity periods provided for in the Directive by the renewal of driving licences from 2 years the date on which the holder established habitual residence in it's territory.And to put it even more clearly,
if you received legal residence in Spain dated after January 19 2013 you must renew your licence from the moment 2 years of residence in Spain has been made.And just to finish this off once and for all, this is the official UK.gov version from the British Consulate:]
These changes have come about as a consequence of the implementation in Spain of Directive 2006/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on driving licences which aims to harmonise the issue of driving licences across all member states of the European Union.This legislation affects those British nationals resident in Spain who hold an old-style UK licence which doesn’t have the 10-year validity period and who have been resident in Spain for 2 years. In Spain, once the licence-holder has resided for two years, they are obliged to renew it or exchange it for a Spanish driving licence.So if you'd like to show me where the Guardia Civil, the DGT and the British Consulate are wrong and it really is 2 months then please point it out so I can tell all those bodies they are wrong.And they all refer to the old style driving licence. As I understand it, the photocard with a validity of 10 years can be used up to its expiry date with no need for renewal but, the important thing, you can't renew it in Spain or UK if it runs out, hence the change it for a Spanish one before that happens.