A person who is under the age of 18 may obtain driving license of categories A1, B1 or T having presented  his/her parents’ or guardian’s permission.

Driving license cannot be obtained by a person who has been prohibited from operating vehicles (pursuant to court’s final judgment, a decision of misdemeanor board or a decision of any other adjudicative authority) when the ban is in force.

In the WORD office the following documents must be submitted:

All the documents have to be submitted to the Department of Transport.

Medical certificate

The candidate has to go to a doctor who is entitled to examine drivers (candidates for drivers) to obtain a medical certificate confirming that the person satisfies the medical standards required for driving vehicles. If the examination reveals that the candidate is addicted to alcohol or other intoxicants the candidate cannot obtain a driving license. A restricted driving license may be obtained if the candidate has health problems unless a doctor issuing a medical certificate decides otherwise (for example, a doctor is entitled to decide if the candidate can drive vehicles wearing glasses).

Training

All documents (including a medical certificate, a permission of parents, ect.) have to be submitted to  a Driver Training Centre where the candidates undergo training for a given driving license category. Information on Drivers Training Centres may be found in provincial districts which supervise Driver Training Centres. Also complaints on the working of the centres and all comments concerning them should be submitted in provincial districts. The candidate has to undergo the training in order to learn how to drive vehicles so as not to cause dangerous situations in the traffic and not to threaten the order of the traffic. Training consists of theoretical and practical parts. The number of training hours is arranged for individual candidates by the driving instructor depending on the knowledge and skills of the candidates.

Theoretical training for a given category may not be less than:

1. 30 hours for categories A, A1, B, B1, T
2. 20 hours for categories C, C+E, D, D+E, C1, C1+E, D1, D1+E, B+E

Practical training may not be less than:

The number of hours for given categories may change if the candidate undergoes trainings for more than one driving license or if the candidate has already obtained entitlements for a given category. On completion of the training the candidate obtains a certificate confirming the completion of the basic training course for drivers.

Driving license may be restricted due to the candidate’s health problems. The second type of restriction concerns the allowing the candidate to drive a specific type of vehicle. The first type of restriction is imposed on the candidate by the doctor who specifies a condition required for driving in a medical certificate confirming that the person satisfies the medical standards required for driving vehicles (otherwise obtaining driving license would be impossible). The driver who is hard of hearing has to use a special hearing aid and a disabled driver may drive an adequately accommodated vehicle. The second restriction concerns, for example, using a vehicle with automatic transmission. Some Driver Training Centres offer the training in a car with automatic transmission. The candidate may take the national exam in this type of car (in this situation a Driver Training Centre lends the Province Traffic Centre the car). However, it not widely known that the candidate obtains a driving license with a code that only allows the candidate to drive cars with automatic transmission.

National exam

To take the national exam the candidate has to report (with a certificate issued by Drivers Training Centre) to the Provincial Wojewódzkiego Ośrodka Ruchu Drogowego (there are 49 Centres in Poland and the candidate may choose between them), where the candidate pays for the exam and arranges a date of the exam.