Professional Drivers – EFA https://www.efa-eu.com European Driving Schools Association Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:26:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.efa-eu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/EFA-Favicon-2-150x150.jpg Professional Drivers – EFA https://www.efa-eu.com 32 32 EFA Newsletter August 2026 https://www.efa-eu.com/efa-newsletter-august-2026/ https://www.efa-eu.com/efa-newsletter-august-2026/#respond Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:24:42 +0000 https://www.efa-eu.com/?p=5856 The Czech Driving School Association, together with the GasNet group, is presenting the nationwide Back Behind the Wheel project. Its aim is to help people who have not driven for a long time regain their confidence in road traffic and strengthen the culture of safety on Czech roads. The unique project focuses in the first phase on two groups of drivers: seniors and parents on or shortly after parental leave. Through professionally supervised refresher lessons at partner driving schools throughout the Czech Republic, it offers them an affordable way to brush up on the current rules, practise more demanding traffic situations and get safely back behind the wheel.

]]> https://www.efa-eu.com/efa-newsletter-august-2026/feed/ 0 EFA Newsletter July 2026 https://www.efa-eu.com/efa-newsletter-july-2026/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:43:56 +0000 https://www.efa-eu.com/?p=5768 Spain’s National Confederation of Driving Schools (CNAE) has re-elected Enrique Lorca as president for a new term. Two candidacies were originally set to contest the July 11 election: one led by Rubén Castro, president of the Asturian driving schools’ employers’ association, and the other headed by Lorca, president of the Murcia provincial driving schools’ association. Days before the vote, Castro withdrew his bid, which under CNAE’s statutes triggered the direct election of Lorca’s slate, also including Teresita del Niño Jesús Coll, Emilio Fernández, Rafael Cruz, Joana Ribas, Sergio Olivera and José Blas Valero.

Lorca has led CNAE since 2020 and the European Driving Schools Federation (EFA) since 2019; he also chairs the Ibero-American road-safety education association AICEFOV and the Road Safety Alliance (ASV).

The re-elected team says it will keep working to improve driving-test capacity, defend driving schools’ interests and strengthen the profession’s standing, building on recent efforts such as the campaign against Article 62 of Spain’s Traffic Law and CNAE’s involvement, via EFA, in shaping the EU’s new driving licence directive. Talks with the Interior Ministry on Germany’s accompanied-driving model are also ongoing. Looking ahead, CNAE identifies the exam-capacity shortage and the rise of autonomous vehicles as its main strategic challenges.

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