Medical

When wanting to apply for or renew a Dutch driving licence, you can be asked to submit a CBR Declaration of Fitness/Suitability (Verklaring van Geschiktheid), which enables you to apply for a Dutch driving licence through your local municipality. This can also occur when you want the CBR to determine whether you are still fit enough to ride or drive with the driving licence that you already hold.

You can apply directly online yourself through MijnCBR.nl for immediate processing at €41.00.

Furthermore, you may only ride or drive when you have been declared suitable to do so; this means that your mental and physical fitness to drive has to be established. Applying for your own personal GV is done by submitting a CBR Statement of Health Form (Gezondheidsverklaring – GV for short), and is your first important step towards assessing your suitability to ride or drive.

On this GV you’ll need to self-certify your mental and psychical fitness to drive by answering questions about your general physical and mental condition, any disability, adverse medical condition, mental illness or any other defect or disorder so that the CBR Medical Department can determine whether you are immediately fit to drive, or whether a further medical examination will be required to determine your fitness.

These questions concern:

• Medications
• Arms and legs
• Vision and eyes
• Hart and arteries
• Diabetes mellitus
• Abuse of substances
• Reduced kidney functions
• Nervous system disorders
• Other complaints or disorders
• Lungs or blood conditions, transplants
• Behavioural disorders and psychiatric diagnosis
• Epilepsy, obstructive sleep and unconsciousness

and vary per ordered GV. The required GV depends on the driving licence categories that you are applying for.

There are three types of this GV

You can go to www.cbr.nl and settle this online yourself immediately, but when not have a DigID or not have a good command of the Dutch language – with all its specialized medical terminology – you can order your paper copy of this GV there as well. 

Whether you’ll need to visit a general medical practitioner (GP or doctor) for supplementary information will depend on the answers given to these questions, and also how the CBR Medical Department interprets these. Note that only when you are over 75 years of age or a professional bus or heavy goods vehicle driver, you’ll always need to visit an examining medical practitioner afterwards. In those cases the CBR’s Medical Department will send you a form that needs to be completed by an examining doctor; where it’s immediately apparent that also information is needed from an additional doctor, like a specialist, you’ll also receive a referral to this doctor at the same time.

When in doubt about your suitability, you should contact the CBR Medical Administration Department at 0088 227 77 00 or +31 88 227 77 00 when calling from outside The Netherlands.