Driving in the NetherlandsThe following websites provide ample information regarding Dutch driving regulations, obtaining or renewing your licence, driving with a foreign licence, vehicle registration and vehicle import/export procedures.
Go to the Dutch government’s driving licence website (click on English!) for information on the following:
- Driving Test Organisation (CBR)
- international driving license
- passing your test
- possession of a foreign driving license
- renewing your driving licence
- road traffic signs and regulations in the Netherlands
Go to the Centre for Vehicle Technology and Information (RDW) for information on the following:
- APK inspection of your vehicle
- charges
- composite vehicles and the registration mark
- driving licence
- exporting your vehicle
- identification inspection requirements
- importing your car or motorcycle into the Netherlands
- importing your trailer or semitrailer into the Netherlands
- modifying your car or motorcycle
- moving abroad
- purchasing a vehicle
- re-imprinting your Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)
- RWD inspection of your car or motorcycle before you import it
- RWD inspection of your trailer before you import it
- scrapping your vehicle
- selling your vehicle
- suspending the validity of the vehicle registration certificate
- vehicle registration certificate
- vehicle registration certificate for trailers, caravans and semitrailers
- vehicle registration test performed
- weighing vehicles