#INTS2610014ARules for approving and running theory driving tests
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This law sets the rules for private operators that want to run the theory exam for a French driving licence. It requires a ministry approval process, strict anti-fraud controls, and detailed IT security measures for the operator’s systems, including secure links to the government exam platform, logging, access control, time-stamp protection, and incident reporting. It also imposes operating rules for exam sites and staff: identity checks, exam hours, room layout, camera use in reinforced-surveillance cases, result delivery, data retention, and monthly reporting on candidates from driving schools. Driving-test operators, exam centers, and related training schools are the main groups affected.
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Key Changes
- Private exam operators must get ministry approval and sign up to strict anti-fraud and independence commitments.
- Operator IT systems must meet detailed security rules, including secure government interface access, logging, encryption, time-stamp protection, and incident reporting.
- Exam centers must follow operating rules on identity checks, exam hours, room setup, video surveillance in reinforced cases, result delivery, and data retention.
Obligations
What this law requires
Applicants for ministerial approval must sign an attestation committing to comply with the cahier des charges and any later amendments, and to take all measures to prevent fraud and ensure independence from driving schools and pedagogical product sellers.
Approved operators must, on request of the safety-routière ministry, carry out and pay for an on-site information-security audit/inspection by an ANSSI-qualified provider, including verification of personal-data protections and the timestamping architecture.
Operators must immediately inform the ministry of any information-security incident affecting their infrastructure and cooperate in incident handling.
Regional anti-fraud representatives must promptly transmit suspected or confirmed fraud cases, and any site closures initiated by the operator, to the ministry and the departmental road-education office.
At the start of each exam, examiners must verify each candidate’s identity using the summons and an acceptable identity document, and must refuse entry if the candidate cannot produce compliant ID.