Physical description
Size: 105 x 74 mm
Format: ISO/IEC 7810 ID-2
Material: Coloured watermark photographic paper laminated in clear plastic extending beyond all edges
Colour: Pink and blue (mixed) in fine lines
Distinctive features: Photo is integrated in the document
Security features
Iridescent ink
- Location: Bottom front, overlapping part of the photo.
- Characteristics: Changes between green and red.
- Method of verification: Move the document
Embossing
- Location: Front side, from the middle to the top
- Characteristics: Norwegian public roads administration emblem
- Method of verification: Visual
Printed text in the laminate plastic
- Location: Front side, top right corner
- Characteristics: The text states the licence's place and year of issue.
- Method of verification: Viewing with the naked eye.
Positive guilloche printing
- Location: Front side / back side
- Characteristics: Background with pink and blue pattern also covering the photo of the holder
- Method of verification: Magnifying glass
Legend
- 1 Surname of the holder
- 2 Other name(s) of the holder
- 3 Date and place of birth
- 4a Date of issue of the licence
- 4b Date of expiry of the licence
- 4c Name of the issuing authority
- 5 Number of licence
- 6 Photograph of the holder
- 7 Signature of the holder
- 8 Permanent place of residence
- 9 category(ies) of vehicle(s) the holder is entitled to drive
- 10 Date of first issue of each category(ies)
- 11 Date of expiry of each category
- 12 Additional information/restriction(s)
Categories & Codes
Categories
For more information on the corresponding categories, please check the Commission decision on equivalence.
|
Category |
Period of validity* |
|---|---|
|
A, B, BE, (T) S, A1 - 01/01/1997 |
Until 100 years |
|
C, D, CE, DE C1,D1 - 01/01/1997 |
Until 60: 10 years; after 60: 5 years; after 66: until 71; above 70: 1 year |
*This refers to the administrative validity of the document and does not necessarily reflect the holder’s right to drive.
National categories
|
National category |
Description of national category |
|---|---|
|
T |
Tractor, up to maximum design speed of 40 km/h |
|
S |
Snowmobile with or without a trailer sledge |
Professional drivers
- Certificate of professional competence is issued : NO
- Code 95 is marked on the driving licence : NO
Additional information
Additional information related to equivalences of categories -
- The stamp with the restricting text is on the reverse of the driving licence.
- The holder is also entitled to drive C1 vehicles if the following entitlement is stamped on the reverse of the driving licence: ‘Gjelder også bil med tillatt totalvekt ikke over 7 500 kg og høyst 8 passasjerplasser’ (Valid for motor car with maximum authorised weight less than 7,500 kilograms and maximum 8 passenger seats). To keep this entitlement, the holder must have exchanged their licence for a model N 4 before 1 January 2002.
- Holders of category BE licences issued before 2.4.1979 and subsequently exchanged for an N3 model are also entitled to drive vehicles in category A1.
- Category C1 was introduced on 1 January 1997.
- To maintain the C1 entitlement, the holder must have exchanged their licence for an N4 model before 1.1.2002.
- Category D1 and D1E were introduced on 1 January 1997 and replaced categories D2 and D2E.