I have to ask this..

You can be banned from driving in any country but it won't have an impact
on your driving at home unless there is a reciprocal agreement.

 

If you're banned in France for example, you're not banned in the UK. However
I believe that if you're banned in the UK, then you're banned from everywhere.

I believe that there are agreements in place between the RoI and the UK.

 

They've just introduced the points system in Belgium recently. 12 points
I believe.

In Spain, IIRC it's 24.

So much for harmonisation within the EU. Heheheh.

Urm, I believe it's 20 points in Italy with bonus points for every year you're
good up to a max of 30 points.

 

http://www.drivingban.co.uk

And

http://www.drivingban.co.uk/drivingban/banneddriving.htm

 

Afaik, there are now. Introduced a few months ago, iirc.

 

No. NI & IoM are the only places with reciprocal arrangements for *bans*
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensing/DrivingInGbOnAForeignLicence/DG_4022559

 

Well, something happened to alter the situation several months back.

 

<pats GC on the head>

of course it did

if only you could remember the reference, I wouldn't feel compelled to
patronise you...

 

True, but you're talking about a workaround. Your mate banned in the UK, was
in effect banned everywhere else on his UK licence. He only got around that
by getting a Jersey licence.

 

This?

http://news.eircom.net/breakingnews/16733493/?view=Standard

 

" "

 

Hopefully the Shinners will trip the whole thing up.

--
'Hog
'06 ST4-S
'96 Bastard12 '89 R100RS '81 XS650 '78 RD400
'81 R65 Outfit
CO2-A load of hot air

 

That's the one.

Oh, and Wessie? **** off.

 

Those are merit points. I was talking about demerit points. You can be
disqualified by losing your merit points or gaining too many demerit
points.

Either way, the trip through Italy was great fun.

 

Until Malta joined the EU I had a Maltese bike and car licence waiting
in the wings in case of a ban.

 

Heh. I (still) like the story of the English guy stopped on the
Autostrada in Italy for *eek* taking the piss speed.

The bloke in the quick carabinieri car pulled him over, and the bloke
got out with his best pidgen Italian, saying he "didn't speak the
lingo".

"that's ok sir, I speak perfect English" replied he [1]

Paul.

[1] Carabinieri officers are part of the military, and are (on the
whole) very well educated

 

They won't give a flying ****, unless you're driving on the pavement
at reckless speeds. You can drive however you like between towns.

This is the motherland of the fast car. On the Autoroutes, it wouldn't
be beyond the realms of possibility that the cops would stop you for
going too slowly in a sports car, on the grounds you don't deserve to
be driving it.

They /love/ their cars and bikes there. but not as much as football.
The fruitloops.

Paul.

 

Last time I had any dealings with the Italian police I had to converse
in French
as it was the only language in which we were both fluent(ish).
A Lingua Franca, you might say.

 

On the last trip they stopped me I now reckon to see what exhausts I
had, seemingly approved they were akros, and told me to piss off.

 

Someone posted a while back, a link where one could get hold of a
licence from another EU country to help them avoid silly things like
bans, passing tests, etc. Malta was one of the countries, IIRC.