Contact

 Road Traffic Safety Directorate CSDD
Address:
S.Eizensteina iela 6
Riga, Latvia, LV-1079
Telephone: (+371) 67 025 750
Fax: (+371) 67 828 301
E-mail: office@csdd.gov.lv
Website: http://www.csdd.lv/

Contact persons

Operational information:

Technical information:

Use of the EUCARIS system in Latvia

Latvia is participant of EUCARIS and is providing vehicle and driving licence information based on the EUCARIS Treaty.

In addition Latvia is making use of the EUCARIS technology for information exchange based on

  • the 3rd Driving Licence Directive (2006/126/EU),
  • the Road Safety Directive (2015/413/EU),
  • legislation concerning the European Register of Road Transport Undertakings (ERRU), the regulations (EU) No 1071/2009, 1072/2009, 1073/2009 and 1213/2010 (information exchange via HUB of the European Commission),
  • the Roadside Inspection Directive (2014/45/EU,RSI),
  • the exchange of mileage information based on bilateral agreements
  • the EU Prüm Council Decisions (2008/615/JHA and 2008/616/JHA),
  • The European electronic toll service Directive (2004/52/EC, EETS),
  • CoC data exchange between vehicle type approval authorities,
  • the VAT service (2010/24/EU and 2011/16/EU, Council Regulation (EU) No 904/2010).

Further information

Organization

The Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) is the legislative authority at the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Latvia, dealing with general administering of road traffic, registering of vehicles, administering of qualification examinations for drivers and issuing of driving licences, drafting of road traffic regulations, securing technical inspection of vehicles and surveillance of roads for safe traffic.

Registration

One of the CSDD objectives is development and maintainance of national vehicle and driving license registrations.

The vehicle and driving licence register developed by CSDD was the first in Latvia to be granted the status of National Computerised Information System by the decree of Cabinet of Ministers in 1997. CSDD was among the first to start using the National Data Net thus securing state administration and legal institutions with on-line information on vehicles and drivers.

In October of 1996 the Republic of Latvia signed the Memorandum of Cooperation with The Netherlands about information exchange on vehicles, enabling CSDD to join the international information exchange system EUCARIS.

 

More detailed information about the vehicle and driving licence registration in Latvia can be found in the publication The Vehicle Chain in Europe (https://www.vehicle-chain.eu/).