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Project Safe EU Driver
Demands for the approval of centres/providers of
training
Markus Rasche, BVWL Germany
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• The basics
  of the Directive 2003/59/EC
  (Annex 1, Article 5)?
• A training centre and provider of training
• approved by the national authorities
• need
• suitable qualification and training programme of
  instruction
• suitable premises, teaching materials and fleet,
  useful group sizes
• qualified instructors
• - can expect periodical checks of the authorities.

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2. Implementation of the Directive into
national German law
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3 ways of Initial Qualification
Apprenticeship
Accelerated
Training (training and test)?
Examination (only test)?
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1 h 60 min. Effective day for commercial
passenger traffic 10. September 2008 Effective
day for commercial road haulage 10. September
2009
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• Authorized Training Centres
  for initial qualification
  and
  periodic training
• - driving schools with a driving school
  permission
• for the classes CE/DE,
• transport companies
• (accepted by the Chamber of Industry and
  Commerce),
• - training centres with permission for
  
• vocational retraining,
• - authorized national training centres
• (e.g. driving schools of German Federal Armed
  Forces)?
• Besides training centres and providers of
  training can get a permission if they fulfil
  special conditions
  (see for this 7, BKrFQG).
• Recurrent checks regarding to authorization will
  take place.

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3. Important facts

• 70.000 drivers/year need an initial
  qualification or apprenticeship,
• 1.000.000 drivers in the commercial haulage and
  about 150.000
• in the commercial passenger transportation need
  periodic training
• every 5 years,
• Imbalance between number of
  drivers and
• number of centres/providers of
  training
• the Federal Government assess the costs for
  periodic training
• between 900.000 and 1.500 million Euro within a
  period of five
• years,
• unclear who will pay the periodic training,
• the costs for each driver are supposed to end up
  to 1.500 Euro,
• penalities (up to max. 20.000 Euro/in case of
  recurrence) for drivers
• who do their job without qualification or
  periodic training
• are planned

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4. Problems in result
Employers looking for drivers,
but drivers
have to be qualified!

• Is a 140-hours-qualification (accelerated
  training in Germany) or a qualification by
  only-test-option a reasonable qualification?
• present high standard education now,
• trainees will favour the light-version,
• short initial qualification a useful replacement
  for apprenticeship?,
• 18 years old beginners (18 years only test)
  have not got
• enough driving experience

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• Can all private training providers
  (who are a priori authorized)
  
• ensure a competent qualification?
• the quality differences and experiences are
  enormous,
• there is a lack of special trainers in a lot of
  privat
• driving schools (driving instructor is not able
  to
• teach each subject),
• most privat schools dont have an own vehicle
  fleet,
• Do the driving schools have got a suitable
  vehicle fleet
• and technical equipment (e.g. Onboard-Unit)?

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• What's about the quality control of
• training providers? Is there a profit for
  employers?
• Do all authorized training centres have
  professional experience
• in qualifying trainees?
• it is not settled who adopt the costs when
  employers take over
• the costs they ask for profit (catchword
  certfications for only
• physical presence -see Germany- or do we need a
  test at the end
• of Periodic Training)
• Do all authorized training centres knows the
  problems arises in
• the transport branch (knowledge about the
  branch important)?
• Is the quality of training guaranteed at all a
  priori accredited

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Thank you for your attention!