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Document: DEU-FO-02003

Title:

FÜHRERSCHEIN ('D')

Issuing Country:

DEU - Germany • BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND •

Document Category:

F - Driving licence

Document type:

O - ordinary document

Document version number:

02003

First issued on:

08/07/2004

Not valid after:

19/01/2031

Valid:

yes

Legal status / main purpose:

Driving licence

Overall construction:

card

Format width (mm):

86

Format height (mm):

54

Number of pages:

Driving licence (3rd version)

Background printing altered on the recto side

The holographic stripe has been widened and the CLI made smaller

Documents issued in 2004: not valid after 19.01.2027. Documents issued 2005 - 2007: not valid after 19.01.2028. Documents issued in 2008: not valid after 19.01.2029. Documents issued in 2009: not valid after 19.01.2030. Documents issued in 2010: not valid after 19.01.2031.

Image 100762 of Recto - identity

Security features:

Printing technique

Background printing altered: "DRIVING LICENCE" in all the languages of the Member States (10 new Member States added)

Image 100765 of Printing technique

Security features:

Printing technique

Image 100766 of Printing technique
OVI

Security features:

Printing technique

Image 100767 of Printing technique

Security features:

Biographical data

Image 100768 of Biographical data
Laser engraving with tactile features

Security features:

Facial image

Photo integration technique:

laser engraving

Security features:

OVD (optically variable device)

OVD (optically variable device):

Kinegram®

OVD description:

TKO film

Image 100769 of OVD (optically variable device)
Optically variable features of TKO film

Security features:

UV feature

UV feature:

fluorescent overprint (invisible under normal light)

Image 100770 of UV feature
Image under UV light

Security features:

UV feature

UV feature:

fluorescent ink

Security features:

UV feature

UV feature:

fluorescent fibres

Image 100763 of Verso

Security features:

Substrate

Top left: hand-writeable infill area consisting of paper, printed with the same design as the card

Security features:

Printing technique

Image 100771 of Printing technique
Image 100772 of Printing technique
The vehicle categories were altered around January 2005: a new category "T/S" was introduced and the picture of a tractor removed

Security features:

Biographical data

Laser engraving, except for entries in the infill area (items 13. and 14.), which are either handwritten or stamped

Security features:

OVD (optically variable device)

OVD (optically variable device):

hologram

OVD description:

embedded holographic stripe

Image 100773 of OVD (optically variable device)
holographic stripe
Image 100774 of OVD (optically variable device)
holographic stripe - top: under incident light; bottom: by transmitted light
Image 100775 of OVD (optically variable device)
New features in the 3rd card model: wider holographic stripe and smaller CLI field

Security features:

OVD (optically variable device)

Image 100776 of OVD (optically variable device)
CLI: traffic signs/part of driving licence number

Security features:

UV feature

UV feature:

fluorescent ink

Image 100777 of UV feature
Image under UV light

Security features:

UV feature

Remark:

infill area substrate --> yellow

DEUThis information is supplied to you by the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union. It has been selected and compiled by document experts in Germany • BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND •
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