DUSHANBE, April 12, 2010, Asia-Plus — A new credit-card-style driving license is expected to replace the present driving license style in Tajikistan next year, with a microchip is expected to be introduced in Tajikistan in 2011, Bahodur Ghaybulloyev, the chief of the software unit within the Tajik traffic police directorate, said in an interview with Asia-plus.
According to him, they have already announced an international tender for delivery of appropriate automated system for issuance and registration of the plastic-covered driving licenses.
“The new driving license will have the credit card-style with a photograph and possibly a microchip or a bar code containing information about the car and its holder,” Ghaybulloyev said, noting that the main objective of the license is to decrease the risk of fraud.
“The license will be a credit-card-style, single plastic-coated document, very difficult to falsify,” he noted, adding that the new driving license must meet requirements of the Vienna convention on road traffic of 1968 and amendments to this document, made by the UN Transport Committee in 2004.
The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is an international treaty designed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardizing the uniform traffic rules among the contracting parties. This convention was agreed upon at the United Nations Economic and Social Council”s Conference on Road Traffic (October 7, 1968 – November 8, 1968) and done in Vienna on 8 November 1968. It came into force on May 21, 1977. This conference also produced the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals.
“The amendments came into effect on March 28, 2006,” said Ghaybulloyev, “The contracting parties should issue national driving licenses in accordance with the new edition of supplement 6 to the convention not later than five years after the new edition comes into force, that is beginning on March 28, 2011.”
