Driver’s license with CCCD integrated, does the driver need to present it when checked by the traffic police?

Answering readers’ questions about, currently, the driver’s license has been integrated into the citizen identification card (CCCD) with a chip, so does the driver need to show the driver’s license when participating in traffic or just put CCCD?

Senior Colonel Ta Thi Hong Minh – Deputy Head of the Department, Division of Guidance for Propaganda, Investigation, and Traffic Accidents, Traffic Police Department, Ministry of Public Security – said that in the past time, the driving license license) is integrated into the CCCD with a chip in order to effectively exploit the national database on population, improve the efficiency of state management in linking other specialized data with the national data on the population. reside.

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This will reduce a number of administrative procedures as well as some intermediary steps that cause troubles for people such as procedures related to new issuance, renewal, and re-issuance of driving licenses, competent authorities can do the following procedures. continuously related to the driving license at any place (permanent residence, temporary residence) without having to carry out the confirmation procedures as before.

In addition, the change of a citizen’s residence is updated in the population database, so that administrative cases of citizens (sanctions, notification of violations, etc.) will also be very convenient for people. people and the state management of road traffic order and safety.

According to Colonel Minh, in Clause 1, Article 41 of the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, to which Vietnam is a signatory, it stipulates that “Drivers of motor vehicles must have a driving license; Clause 2, Article 41 of the Vienna Convention, stipulates: Contracting States must recognize drivers who possess international driving licenses in accordance with the provisions of the Convention.

At the same time, according to Clause 2, Article 58 of the Law on Road Traffic 2008, “Drivers must carry a driver’s license when operating a vehicle.”

“The issue of regulations on driving license, the draft Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety must internalize the contents of the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, inheriting the Law on Road Traffic 2008” – Colonel Minh said.

Therefore, people when operating motor vehicles participating in road traffic must carry a driving license according to regulations.