What changes with the new motorcycle license on March 1, 2020 (1/6)

The reform of the motorcycle license comes into force on March 1, 2020. It introduces a specific code for bikers (ETM) as well as a longer and more demanding road test.. These new measures worry some professionals in the sector while others see them as interesting progress … MNC is investigating and taking stock.

As revealed by Site in, the motorcycle license is again subject to significant changes. Seven years after the appearance of the limited to 47.5 hp in 2013 and four years after its extension to all candidates regardless of their age, which ended direct access to the A license (without power limitation) , the new 2020 motorcycle license is ready.

• MNC of February 5, 2019 : First information on the new 2020 motorcycle license 
• MNC of 2 June 2016 : A2 motorcycle license compulsory for all bikers 
• MNC special file : 

Objective: to improve the quality of the training and the examination thanks to theoretical tests dedicated to motorcycles as well as to the reinforcement of the traffic part, which will now include the famous "" dear to. Clearly, the motorcycle license becomes more specific and therefore more selective: nothing to encourage future candidates…

Hence the bitter observation expressed last fall by MNC: the motorcycle license continues to become more complex when the car license (B) hardly changes. Motorists – much more numerous than motorcyclists – are however frequently the cause of accidents between cars and motorcycles, for lack of having been trained to pay attention to two-wheelers (by systematizing the use of mirrors and indicators, for example example).

"In two thirds of cases, a motorcycle accident is first and foremost a car accident and the car license is not reformed!", Revolt in turn in a joint statement the Chamber of Trade Union importers of automobiles and motorcycles (CSIAM), the Collectif de Defense des Loisirs Vertes (Codever), the National Council of Automobile Professions (CNPA), the French Motorcycling Federation (FFM) and the French Federation of Angry Motards (FFMC ).

Asked by the Journal moto du Net, the two-wheeler manager of the French Driving School (ECF) network, Xavier Brèche (thumbnail below), is more positive: "this reform is a good measure in certain aspects because the training is now done through the prism of the motorbike, where some learning has so far been derived from car training ".

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