Driving in Poland on a foreign license

just to clear that one up...

if you are driving with a foreign licens in any other country (within the eu) and you commit an offence that would give you points this WILL be passed on to the issuer of your driving license and you WILL get points for your offence...

otherwise i could be speeding and drink driving for all my life in a foreign country and even run into other people without loosing my licence...

not quite possible.

the question is though if the copper can be bothered to take care of that for minor offences.

at the moment there is a bit of a greyzone with these things but the eu is working on it to ensure more efficiency in tackling bad driving...

Yeah I have heard that in 2010 there is going to be a European driving licence, which will clear up all this uncertainty.

Thought you might want to try claiming that your permanent residence card predates the 2006 law. OK, if you got the card in 2005, you would have been covered by the Act on Aliens
of 13 June 2003 (Journal of Laws of 2003, No 128, it. 1175). We can find it here http://www.udsc.gov.pl/files/old_file/44e9bdd07d1b8_1-44043372d9359_cu dzoziemcy.pdf
Would that have given you a permanent residence card?
No. It would not. That law did not give permanent residence cards. Have a look at Article 72, section 3. “The residence card issued to an alien who has been granted:
1)the residence permit for a fixed period shall be valid for the period of validity of this
permit
2)the permit to settle, shall be valid for a period of 10 years”
So you could not have permanent residency on the basis of that law.

Alternatively, you might like to claim that you actually have your permanent residence card because you are a family member of an EU citizen. Want to try that? OK. Let’s go back to the act of 14 July 2006 on the entry into, residence in and exit from the Republic of Poland of nationals of the European Union Member States and their family members. More specifically, we go to Article 30 section 2 “2. The residence card of the Union citizen family member is valid for 5 years.”
So you can’t have a permanent residency card that way either.

Face the facts: you do not have a permanent residency card and can not have ever had one. Either read the laws I’ve quoted and admit that you are wrong or carry on living in your own little fantasy world.



No. You will not get those points at the moment.

However, if you get caught doing something which would get you banned as the holder of a Polish licence (e.g. drink driving), you will get your British driving licence taken away from you on the spot. The police will send it to the British embassy.