Medical control examination

Based on Art. 7 para. 1 and Art. 27 para. 1 VZV, the holders of a driver's license as well as driving instructors and traffic experts must undergo a medical examination by a medical examiner as follows:

Cat. C, D, C1, D1, BPT (professional passenger transport), traffic experts and driving instructors

  • Up to the age of 50 every 5 years
  • After age 50 every 3 years
  • After the age of 75 every other year

All categories

  • After the age of 75
  • After serious accidental injury or after serious illness

Please note that the new driver's license in credit card format is limited in each case until the next medical checkup.

The examination costs in the amount of CHF 120.00 are at your expense and are to be paid directly to the doctor.

Please bring the examination form to the responsible doctor for the medical check-up.

Raising the age limit from 70 to 75 years of age from January 1, 2019

In the following documents you will find answers to the most frequently asked questions regarding the raising of the age limit, divided by type of driver's license:

Driver's license in credit card format

Driver's license card in paper format (blue)

Confidential doctors for medical checkup

Doctors list

Waiver of driver's license

If you wish to waive your right to drive motor vehicles or the categories of driver's license that require the checkup, please complete the waiver and send it to the Office of Road Traffic together with your driver's license.

Waiver

Driving a car and dementia

Dementia affects fitness to drive. Affected individuals and their loved ones should address the possibility that driving will eventually become impossible early on. Doctors, physicians and other specialists offer advice and assess whether, from their point of view, fitness to drive is still given.

Read more about this topic in the brochure of the association Dementia Liechtenstein.