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Understand how the licence penalty points system works...
Luxembourg operates a penalty points system. Each driver (including drivers with foreign-issued driving licences) starts with an allocation of 12 points. The points are removed from this balance for infractions committed. If all points are lost, the licence is suspended for a 12-month period.
The most common offences include:
- 1 point: not wearing a safety belt
- 2 points: driving slightly over the speed limit, not observing a stop sign
- 4 points: driving without a valid licence, without insurance or driving over the alcohol limit or speed limit
- 6 points: accident involving the death of a person
- A full list of infractions (in French)
To recover points
- Drivers must not commit any infraction for a period of three years starting from the last offence, in which case all points may be recovered
- Drivers may follow a one-day course at the official driving centre in Colmar-Berg and recover three points (only possible once every three years)
- Drivers may follow a five-day course at the official driving centre in Colmar-Berg if the driving licence has been suspended
The Colmar-Berg driver training centre, Centre de Formation pour Conducteurs (CFC), has further details in English:
Related Information
- Le Guichet (in French)