François-Noël Buffet announces 80,000 additional examination places by the end of the year

This measure must be accompanied by the recruitment of inspectors in driving schools, in order to shorten the deadlines between obtaining the highway code and the passage of the permit.

Of the “Emergency measures” to facilitate the passage of the driving license. By the end of the year, 80,000 additional examination places will be opened, the Minister of the Interior Minister, François-Noël Buffet announced on Thursday July 31. “The waiting times between the moment when the theoretical examination and the practical examination is successful is considerable”he deplored at the microphone of RMC. In 2024, this duration amounted to “More than 80 days of waiting on average (…) in some territories, it’s three, four months, sometimes more”.

To accompany the opening of these new examination places, François-Noël Buffet thus indicated that “108 inspectors” are “During recruitment”. To this is added “The mobilization of detached agents who are retired”, as well as “The creation of 10 additional positions next year”,, he continued.

Received in mid-July at the Ministry of the Interior, the sector officials had declared that, to reduce the average expectation between obtaining the highway code and the practical examination, 200 additional inspectors were necessary.

The Minister did not wish to take “Commitment to the deadline”But mentioned a period of one month, “When the device is completely operational”.

While France knows “A fairly low success rate” on examination (59% in the first pass), “It is essential that the candidates presented to the exam have all the necessary achievements and that the examination is no longer experienced as a destabilizing test for many of them”said François-Noël Buffet.

“With this plan, we provide an immediate response to the current crisis, while preparing an in -depth reform to improve the success rate without ever compromising security on our roads”he added, recalling that“A little over 1.8 million of our compatriots passes the practical aspect of the driving license.”