Sweden
Part 1: Driving with a Disability
Are there any laws or regulations in your country that restrict whether people with disabilities can obtain a driving license?
Yes, The Swedish Transport Agency decides if a driving licence will be subject to any conditions. One example of such a condition may be that a vehicle used by a person with a disability must have specific equipment. The Swedish Transport Agency may require people with certain medical conditions to submit a medical certificate after a set time period. A driving licence may also be restricted to vehicles with automatic transmission.
Conditions that extend or restrict the category are specified on the licence using a numerical code. The medical requirements and condition codes emanate from the EU driving license directive that are transmitted into Swedish reglements. The detailed restrictions are set out in the regulation TSFS 2010:125 Transportstyrelsens föreskrifter och allmänna råd om medicinska krav för innehav av körkort m.m.
Are there any restrictions on the type of vehicle or adaptation to controls that can be driven by a person with a disability?
Yes, The adaptations need to mitigate the disability so that it doesn’t affect the driving in a negative or dangerous way. If the driving licence is issued with conditions, the adaptations needs to fulfil the conditions.
If you have answered yes to the above question, do the same restrictions apply to a person with a disability visiting your country in their own or a rented vehicle? Please give details
Yes, A driving license issued by another country within the EU or EEC is valid for driving in Sweden according to its content. Conditions that extend or restrict the category are specified on the licence using a numerical code.
Please give details of the section responsible in your Ministry for driver licensing and vehicle adaptations for people with disabilities. Please also include any websites which give details of the official national policy.
Name of Department/Ministry: Swedish Transport Agency
Name of section responsible: Driving License section
email address for queries: transportstyrelsen.se
Phone number for queries: +46 771 503 503
website (s): https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/sv/vagtrafik/Korkort/har-korkort/korkort-med-villkor/
Part 2: Parking Cards for people with a disability
Does your country have a national scheme of parking concessions for people with a disability?
Yes, Sweden has adopted the European Model Parking Card., for further information see: http://www.disabledmotorists.eu/ en/world_map/europe/sweden.htm
Which categories of people with a disability are eligible for the parking card?
A permit may only be issued to a person with a permanent disability which means that he or she has significant difficulties in moving on his or her own.
Are there parking spaces reserved for people with a disability?
Yes
If you have answered yes, where are the reserved parking spaces?
On street, In municipal car parks, Other (please specify): Parking cards only exempt holders from local road traffic regulations governing parking. Local traffic regulations are usually determined by the district authority and denoted by road signs. Parking spaces reserved especially for the physically disabled with parking cards on road and in car parks are marked with a wheelchair symbol. In some districts parking is free for those displaying a parking card. For more information see: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/transportdisability/parkingcard-disabilitiespeople/sweden/index_en.htm#shortcut-2
What concessions does the parking card give people with a disability?
Other (please specify): Parking is municipally regulated so the fee and time limit depends on the municipal regulation. Parking cards only exempt holders from local road traffic regulations governing parking. Local traffic regulations are usually determined by the district authority and denoted by road signs. Parking spaces reserved especially for the physically disabled with parking cards on road and in car parks are marked with a wheelchair symbol. In some districts parking is free for those displaying a parking card. For more information see: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/transportdisability/parking-carddisabilitiespeople/sweden/index_en.htm#shortcut-2
Are there any regions or cities in your country that do not recognise the parking card, or which have their own, different system?
No
Are the same concessions available to individuals with a disability visiting your country?
Yes
If you have answered yes to the above question, please tell us if there is a formal system of reciprocal recognition of parking cards from other countries?
Yes
If you have answered yes to the above question, please tell us
Which countries' parking cards are recognised (please list): Sweden has adopted the European Model Parking Card. For further information see: http://www.disabledmotorists.eu/en/world_map/europe/sweden.htm
Community-model parking card for people with disabilities according to the council recommendations 98/376/EU adapted by 2008/205/EC and issued in an EEA country. Other parking cards with the international symbol for access if they are issued in the Danish, English, French, Norwegian, Swedish or German language or if they are used together with an authenticated translation to one of these languages. They are furthermore only valid if the person have not stayed in Sweden for more than a year.
Are there minimum dimensions for the size of a parking space reserved for a person with a disability?
Yes, Where there is a parking space reserved for persons with a disability, at least one should allow the use of a wheel chair lifted in from the side of the vehicle. This should be at least 5m but can be less if there’s additional space to the side. https://rinfo.boverket.se/ALM/PDF/BFS2011-5-ALM2.pdf
Please give details of the section in your ministry responsible for parking concessions for people with a disability
Name of Department/Ministry: Swedish Transport Agency
phone number for queries: +46 771-503 503
website(s): https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/en/road/
Please include a link to any websites which give details of the official national policy on parking concessions for people with a disability.
Further information on parking concessions, please visit the Swedish Ministry of Transport website here - https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/en/road/
Part 3: Hiring a car if you have a disability
Does your country have any laws which require hire car companies to make adapted vehicles available for people with disabilities to rent?
No
Where are such vehicles available?
At major airports and at city centre hire car outlets
Please give details of the section responsible in your ministry for laws/policies on adapted hire cars.
Name of ministry: Swedish Transport Agency
phone number for queries: +46 771-503 503
website(s): https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/en/road/
Part 4: Further information
Please give contact details (email, phone, weblinks) for any sections or organisations which have supplied information for your response to this survey if they are not already listed.
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