The chip will become a mandatory element of the vehicle's technical passport. Driver's licenses may still be issued without it for now. The chip will contain all information about the owner: place of residence, identification number, duplicated information from the document itself, data related to its protection, and possibly the driver's biometric parameters.
The State Traffic Inspectorate also noted that while licenses were previously valid for 50 years, this period has now been reduced to 20 years for categories A-A1 and B-B1, and to 10 years for other categories.
Apparently, due to the introduction of chips, the price of plastic driver's licenses and vehicle registration certificates changed on May 21. The cost of the "plastic" increased by 39.9 hryvnias. Licenses and technical passports went up by the same amount.
Read more about this in our article "New rates for car registration and the cost of beautiful license plates".
