Abstract

SA.11.03

Legal questions of driver's license assessment in Germany: StVZO – FeV – FeVÄndV: where are we going?

Lachenmayr B. 
Munich

StVZO The StVZO (Straßenverkehrs-Zulassungs-Ordnung) was activated on November 15, 1974. For almost 25 years the well-known appendix XVII „Mindestanforderungen an das Sehvermögen der Kraftfahrer“ was the basis for driver´s license assessment in Germany. And it worked quite well, despite of some problems with the definitfion of uniocular drivers. The StVZO at least had a reccommendation to test mesopic vision and sensitivity to glare in applicants with reduced vision, who hat to undergo an ophthalmological exam.
FeV The FeV (Fahrerlaubnisverordnung) came up on January 1, 1999. It was the german version of the European Guideline from July 19, 1991. There were lot´s of mistakes and errors in the FeV, e.g. the regulation to test the visual field only with manual kinetic perimetry etc.
FeVÄndV The FeVÄndV (Fahrerlaubnisänderungsverordnung, more exactly the „Verordnung zur Änderung der Fahrerlaubnis-Verordnung und anderer Straßenverkehrsrechtlicher Vorschriften“) passed legislation on August 7, 2002. In the FeVÄndV many suggestions of the Traffic Committee of the German Ophthalmological Society could be realized, e.g. the use of automated perimeters for visual field testing in unequivocal cases, the definition of “Konstantes binokulares Einfachsehen” etc.
Quo vadis? European legisation goes towards an obligatory test of visual function for all drivers, not only professional drivers. There is also the intention to intitate an obligatory test for mesopic vision and sensitivity to glare as demanded by the European Guideline from July 19,1991.

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