ALGIERS- The Biometric penalty-points driving licence “will be launched in the first quarter of 2017,” Minister of the Interior and Local Assemblies Noureddine Bedoui announced on Sunday in Algiers.
Before the end of the year, the biometric penalty-points driving licence will be ready to be launched in the first quarter of 2017,” said Bedoui on the sidelines of a seminar on “Information and Communication Technologies in the service of road safety.”
The electronic registration card will also be ready before the end of 2016 and will be launched during the first quarter of 2017, the minister said.
In this regard, he stressed the need for combining efforts to reduce road accidents, which “annually leave thousands of casualties.”
“We are determined to make of 2017 a year of peace and road safety, through the contribution of all players notably the civil society as it is an issue that concerns everyone,” the minister added.
Bedoui also said that before the end of 2016, the parliament will pass the bill on road safety in parallel to the setting up of the Road Safety Delegation.
For Bedoui, the government has “decided to address” the issue of the road safety and prevention, underlining that “our strategy over the coming years will be centered on the Algerian citizen.”
As such, he announced twinning projects with developed countries to find solutions to the lack of safety on the roads.
Source: Biometric penalty-points driving licence to be launched early 2017
