Which vehicles can be driven without a driving license?
Verified 08 July 2022 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
You do not need a license to drive the following vehicles:
- Electric car with power of 1 kW: titleContent maximum
- Vehicle participating in a training, a sporting event, a competition in an approved venue closed to public traffic. The organization must be organized by a sports federation and all participants must have a sports license.
- Agricultural or forestry vehicle or apparatus attached to an agricultural or forestry holding, ETA: titleContent or to a Cuma: titleContent. You must be at least 16 years old and use the vehicle only during the exercise of the agricultural or forestry activity.
- If you are born on or before 31 December 1987, moped and light motor quadricycle.
However, you must to insure the vehicle (moped, cart, agricultural tractor or self-propelled machinery,...).
FYI
if you are born in 1988 or later, you must have the road safety certificate (category AM) to be able to drive a moped or a light motor quadricycle.
- Highway Code: Articles L221-1 A to L221-10Proficiency check, issue and categories
- Highway Code: Articles R211-1 to R211-2Road safety certificates and certificates
- Highway Code: Articles R221-4 to R221-8Issuance and categories of driving licenses
- Highway Code: Articles R221-14 to R221-21Derogations from the obligation to hold a driving license
- Order of 8 November 2012 laying down the conditions for obtaining a road safety certificate corresponding to category AM of the driving license
FAQ
- Which license for which category of vehicles?
- At what age can you drive a scooter or motorcycle?
- Can you drive a 3-wheel scooter or a 125 motorcycle with the B license?
- Which vehicles can be driven with the B license?
- Mini motorcycle, quad: what rules for declaration and driving?
- Carte grise: do you have to register a car without a license?
- Do you need insurance to drive a car without a license?
- What documents do you need to ride a scooter that is less than 50 cm3?
- How to insure a tractor or farm self-propelled machine?
- Motor insurance (vehicle)Service-Public.fr
- Carte grise (Certificate of Registration)Service-Public.fr
- SportsService-Public.fr
- BSR corresponding to category AM of the driving licenseService-Public.fr