Registry entry

Austria Driving Licence Application — Führerscheinantrag (Anlage 3)

Austria's driving-licence request form, 'Führerscheinantrag' (Anlage 3 to the Führerscheingesetz-Durchführungsverordnung, published as BGBl. II Nr. 472/2012), used to request a duplicate driving licence, exchange of a foreign or military driving licence, entry of a code-95/96/111 sub-category, conversion to the credit-card licence format, reinstatement or reissuance of driving entitlement following expiry/withdrawal/renunciation, or renunciation of entitlement for one or more classes. This is a service/amendment form for an existing driving entitlement, not first-time issuance (Austria's driving-school-mediated first licence has no standalone specimen form). Modelled from the current flat (non-fillable) 2-page PDF specimen published on the Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS), the Republic of Austria's official legal-gazette system, as an annex to the underlying regulation; cross-checked against a second, textually identical copy (same field labels and layout, differing only in the omission of the RIS gazette citation/watermark lines) mirrored in the Bundesministerium für europäische und internationale Angelegenheiten's (BMEIA) central forms library and linked from a live Austrian embassy citizen-services page. The form has no AcroForm fields at all (a flat, print-and-fill specimen); every field below was reconstructed from the PDF's own text layer (glyph x/y coordinates) correlated against its checkbox/table graphics (traced via a rendered raster of the page, since the vector text failed to rasterize in this session's renderer while the surrounding lines/boxes rendered correctly). Page 2 ('Nachweise' / 'Behördliche Verfügungen') is entirely completed by the issuing authority and its caseworker after submission (identity/residence/health verification, licence production, serial numbers, and the applicant's own later in-person pickup-confirmation signature at collection) and is deliberately excluded from fields[] as office-only processing, consistent with this registry's convention for paper forms with a back-office section. GovSchema is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Republic of Austria, the Bundesministerium für Inneres, the Bundesministerium für europäische und internationale Angelegenheiten, or any Austrian driving-licence authority (Bezirkshauptmannschaft/Landespolizeidirektion).

Registry entry

at/bmi/driving-licence-application

Jurisdiction
Austria · national
Version
1.0.0
Verification
draft
Authority
Bundesministerium für Inneres (BMI) — the driving-licence authority (Bezirkshauptmannschaft, or in Vienna the Landespolizeidirektion Wien) that administers driving entitlements under the Führerscheingesetz (FSG)

Authoritative source 'Führerscheinantrag' ('Driving licence application'), Anlage 3 to the Führerscheingesetz-Durchführungsverordnung as published in BGBl. II Nr. 472/2012 on the Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS), a flat (non-fillable) 2-page PDF specimen; cross-checked against a textually identical mirror at bmeia.gv.at's central 'Allgemein/Formulare' library ('FormularFuehrerscheinantrag.pdf'), linked from a live Austrian embassy citizen-services page as 'Application Form Driving Licence'

Machine access

Schema document
registry/at/bmi/driving-licence-application/1.0.0/schema.jsonapplication/schema+json
Verification record
registry/at/bmi/driving-licence-application/1.0.0/VERIFICATION.mdtext/markdown
Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id

Field reference

63 fields, read from the published schema.json, with names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.

Fields

  • familyName string required

    Family name / surname

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • academicDegreePrefixed string optional

    Academic degree, prefixed (e.g. Dr., Mag., Ing.)

    length: 0–50classification: pii
  • academicDegreeSuffixed string optional

    Academic degree, suffixed (e.g. MSc, MBA)

    length: 0–50classification: pii
  • familyNameAtBirth string optional

    Family name per birth certificate

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • previousFamilyNames string optional

    Previous family names/surnames

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • givenNames string required

    Given name(s)

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • gender string required

    Gender

    enum: M | Wclassification: pii
  • dateAndPlaceOfBirth string required

    The form provides a single combined blank for both the date and place of birth, with no internal column divider; modelled here as one free-text field matching the source's own layout rather than split into two fields.

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • citizenship string required

    Citizenship

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • mainResidenceAddress string required

    One combined free-text blank covering postal code, town/street/lane/square, house number, stairwell, and door, per the source's own parenthetical component list and single-line layout.

    length: 1–300classification: pii
  • residencyDeclaration boolean required

    A standalone declaration checkbox: the applicant has already lived in Austria for 6 months, or intends to live in Austria for at least 6 months — the 'normal residence' precondition for any driving-entitlement action under the Führerscheingesetz.

  • existingLicenceNumber string optional

    The applicant's current (or most recently held) driving licence number, where the application concerns an existing licence (duplicate, exchange, extension, etc.).

    length: 0–50classification: pii
  • existingLicenceIssuingAuthority string optional

    Existing licence's issuing authority

    length: 0–150
  • existingLicenceIssueDate date optional

    Existing licence's issue date

  • duplicateReasonLossOrTheft boolean optional

    Duplicate reason: loss/theft

  • duplicateReasonNameChange boolean optional

    Duplicate reason: name change

  • duplicateReasonLicenceInvalid boolean optional

    Duplicate reason: invalidity of my licence

  • duplicateReasonExtensionC1CD1D boolean optional

    Duplicate reason: extension of classes C1/C/D1/D

  • duplicateReasonExtensionCode95Classes boolean optional

    Duplicate reason: extension of code-95 classes C1 95/C 95/D1 95/D 95

  • duplicateReasonOtherExtension boolean optional

    Duplicate reason: other extension

  • duplicateReasonCreditCardFormat boolean optional

    Duplicate reason: conversion to credit-card-format licence

  • duplicateReasonOther boolean optional

    Duplicate reason: other/miscellaneous

  • exchangeForeignEeaLicence boolean optional

    Exchange reason: my foreign EEA/EWR driving licence

  • exchangeForeignNonEeaLicence boolean optional

    Exchange reason: my foreign non-EEA driving licence

  • exchangeForCode95Entry boolean optional

    Exchange reason: my licence, for entry of code 95

  • exchangeForCode96Entry boolean optional

    Exchange reason: my licence, for entry of code 96

  • exchangeMilitaryLicence boolean optional

    Exchange reason: my military driving licence (Heeresführerschein)

  • exchangeForCode111Entry boolean optional

    Exchange reason: my licence, for entry of code 111 (motorcycles up to 125cc, valid only in Austria)

  • licenceClassAM boolean optional

    AM — moped

  • licenceClassA1 boolean optional

    A1 — light motorcycle

  • licenceClassA2 boolean optional

    A2 — medium motorcycle

  • licenceClassA boolean optional

    A — motorcycle

  • licenceClassB boolean optional

    B — car

  • licenceClassBV boolean optional

    A licence-class checkbox printed between 'B' and 'C1' on the source's own checklist. Unlike every other entry in this row, 'BV' does not correspond to a class documented in the Führerscheingesetz's own class list that this cycle could find a citation for; modelled here as printed, without inventing a gloss for it — see the document's own VERIFICATION.md.

  • licenceClassC1 boolean optional

    C1 — light lorry

  • licenceClassC195 boolean optional

    C1 95 — light lorry, code-95 (professional driver qualification)

  • licenceClassC boolean optional

    C — lorry

  • licenceClassC95 boolean optional

    C 95 — lorry, code-95 (professional driver qualification)

  • licenceClassD1 boolean optional

    D1 — minibus

  • licenceClassD195 boolean optional

    D1 95 — minibus, code-95 (professional driver qualification)

  • licenceClassD boolean optional

    D — bus

  • licenceClassD95 boolean optional

    D 95 — bus, code-95 (professional driver qualification)

  • licenceClassF boolean optional

    F — tractor/self-propelled machine

  • licenceClassBE boolean optional

    BE — trailer for class B

  • licenceClassC1E boolean optional

    C1E — trailer for class C1

  • licenceClassCE boolean optional

    CE — trailer for class C

  • licenceClassD1E boolean optional

    D1E — trailer for class D1

  • licenceClassDE boolean optional

    DE — trailer for class D

  • reinstatementDueToExpiry boolean optional

    Reinstatement reason: expiry of a time limit

  • reinstatementExpiryDate date optional

    Date the time limit expired

  • reinstatementAfterWithdrawal boolean optional

    Reinstatement reason: following withdrawal of driving entitlement

  • reinstatementDueToRenunciation boolean optional

    Reinstatement reason: due to a prior renunciation

  • reinstatementRenunciationDate date optional

    Date of the prior renunciation

  • reissuanceAfterWithdrawalPeriod boolean optional

    Request for return of licence after expiry of the withdrawal period

  • reissuanceUntilDate date optional

    Withdrawal period end date

  • renunciationOfEntitlement boolean optional

    Renunciation of driving entitlement

  • renunciationClasses string optional

    The one or more licence classes the applicant renounces, entered as free text on the source's own blank rather than a further constrained checklist.

    length: 0–100
  • deliveryToAuthority boolean optional

    Delivery method: collect at the authority (Behörde)

  • deliveryExpress boolean optional

    An independent delivery-speed modifier, applicable regardless of which delivery method is chosen.

  • deliveryToHomeAddress boolean optional

    Delivery method: home address (Wohnadresse)

  • deliveryToOtherAddress boolean optional

    Delivery method: other address

  • otherDeliveryAddress string optional

    Free-text delivery address, entered across the two dotted answer lines the source prints after 'sonstige Adresse:'.

    length: 0–300classification: pii
  • applicationDate date required

    The paper form's own signature is a handwritten signature made in person, within the officially marked signature field; this field captures only the accompanying date, matching this registry's established convention for paper forms requiring a physical signature GovSchema cannot itself capture (see the 'applicantSignature' document entry below).

Verification record

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

  • status: draft
  • verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
  • verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-21

This is a GovSchema Standard Research cycle (GOV-4100), closing Austria's DMV vertical — the jurisdiction's only remaining open vertical after a prior cycle (GOV-4094) closed National ID. Austria now has all 6 GovSchema verticals modelled.

Why this candidate

Austria was a single-vertical-gap jurisdiction (5/6, missing only DMV), and this exact candidate had already been scouted and banked as ready-to-author backlog by the prior GOV-4092 cycle (alongside a Netherlands Visa candidate, left open — see CATALOG.md's Known Gaps section). Re-confirmed this cycle: registry/at/* shows bmeia (Passport, Visa), bmi (National ID), bmf (Taxes), and gewerbebehoerde (Business Formation) all populated, with no driving-licence/DMV entry anywhere under registry/at/.

Sources examined

Primary source
  • Authority: Bundesministerium für Inneres (BMI) — administered through each Land's driving-licence authority (Bezirkshauptmannschaft, or in Vienna the Landespolizeidirektion).
  • Document: "Führerscheinantrag" (Driving licence application), Anlage 3 to the Führerscheingesetz-Durchführungsverordnung, published as BGBl. II Nr. 472/2012.
    • URL: https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Bundesnormen/NOR40146673/II_472_2012_Anlage_3.pdf, hosted on the Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS), the Republic of Austria's official legal-gazette system.
    • Access: fetched fresh this cycle via curl, HTTP 200, application/pdf, 612,300 bytes.
    • Format: flat (non-fillable) 2-page PDF. pdfjs-dist's getAnnotations() returns an empty array on both pages — this specimen has zero AcroForm widgets, unlike the sibling at/bmi/national-identity-card-application schema's fillable AcroForm.
Cross-check source
  • URL: https://www.bmeia.gv.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Allgemein/Formulare/FormularFuehrerscheinantrag.pdf, the Bundesministerium für europäische und internationale Angelegenheiten's (BMEIA) central "Allgemein/Formulare" forms library, linked from a live Austrian embassy citizen-services page.
    • Access: fetched fresh this cycle via curl, HTTP 200, application/pdf, 114,352 bytes.
    • Correction to the prior cycle's backlog note: GOV-4092's own banked note described this mirror as reachable "without login" but did not itself claim byte-identity; this cycle independently fetched both copies and found they are not byte-identical (612,300 vs. 114,352 bytes, different SHA-256) — evidently re-encoded/optimized independently by each host, not literally the same file. Their extracted text layers are identical string-for-string, however, once the RIS copy's own gazette citation/page-marker/watermark lines ("BGBl. II - Ausgegeben am are excluded — a genuine two-source cross-check confirming both mirrors describe the same, single-design form, even though they are not byte-identical artifacts.
      1. Dezember 2012 - Nr. 472", "1 von 2"/"2 von 2", "www.ris.bka.gv.at")

Extraction method

Since the PDF carries no AcroForm widgets, every field was reconstructed from the text layer's own glyph x/y coordinates (pdfjs-dist's getTextContent()), grouped into rows/columns by shared y-coordinates. This session's node-canvas-based PDF renderer failed to rasterize the embedded vector text (a glyph-path resolution error on every character — a renderer-side font-substitution failure, not a source defect) while correctly rendering the surrounding lines, table borders, and checkbox squares. Checkbox positions were therefore recovered independently via a pixel-level scan of the rendered raster (column-wise dark-pixel-run detection at 3x render scale) and matched, in strict left-to-right order, against the text layer's own label sequence — most decisively for the "Beantragte Klassen/Unterklassen" licence-class row, where the pixel scan found exactly 20 checkbox squares in the same left-to-right order as the 20 class-code labels extracted from the text layer (AM, A1, A2, A, B, BV, C1, C1 95, C, C 95, D1, D1 95, D, D 95, F, BE, C1E, CE, D1E, DE), confirming a clean 1:1 correspondence despite uneven inter-checkbox spacing (wider cells accommodate the multi-character "C1 95"/"C 95"/"D 95" labels).

Field inventory

63 applicant-facing fields modelled, split across:

  • 10 personal-data fields (name, academic degree pre-/suffixed, birth name, previous names, given names, gender, combined date-and-place of birth, citizenship, combined main-residence address).
  • 1 residency declaration + 3 existing-licence fields (number, issuing authority, issue date).
  • 8 booleans for "reason for duplicate licence".
  • 6 booleans for "reason for exchange".
  • 20 booleans for the licence-class checklist.
  • 9 fields for reinstatement/reissuance/renunciation (4 boolean triggers, 3 conditionally-required dates, 1 conditionally-required free-text class list).
  • 5 delivery-method fields (3 mutually-exclusive method booleans + 1 independent "Express" modifier + 1 conditionally-required address).
  • 1 closing application-date field.

Plus 3 documents[] entries: a required photograph, a required in-person signature (attestation), and an optional driving-school stamp.

Page 2 ("Nachweise" / "Behördliche Verfügungen") is entirely completed by the issuing authority after submission — identity/residence/health verification, licence production, serial numbers, and the applicant's own later in-person pickup-confirmation signature at collection — and is deliberately excluded from fields[], matching this registry's established convention for paper forms with a back-office processing section (e.g. the sibling at/bmi/national-identity-card-application schema).

Disclosed judgment calls

  • The "BV" licence-class checkbox is transcribed as printed, not glossed. Printed between "B" and "C1" in the 20-entry class checklist, "BV" does not correspond to any driving-licence class this cycle could find a citation for in the Führerscheingesetz's own class list (§2), unlike every other token in that row (all standard EU-harmonised classes or their code-95/96 sub-variants). Considered and ruled out: a text- extraction/font-substitution artifact — unlikely, since text extraction and glyph rasterization are independent code paths in pdfjs-dist (the renderer's glyph-path failures did not affect getTextContent()), and the same "BV" string round-trips identically from both the RIS and BMEIA copies. Modelled as licenceClassBV, described as printed, without inventing a gloss.
  • dateAndPlaceOfBirth and mainResidenceAddress are each modelled as one combined free-text field, not split into their constituent parts. The source prints a single blank with no internal column divider for "Geburtsdatum und Geburtsort" (date and place of birth), and a single blank for "Hauptwohnsitz (PLZ, Ort/Straße/Gasse/Platz, Hausnummer, Stiege, Tür)" (main residence, with its component list given only as a parenthetical hint) — one blank on the source, one field in the schema.
  • The 8-option "reason for duplicate" and 6-option "reason for exchange" checklists are modelled as independent booleans, not a constrained single-select. No radio-group grouping evidence exists on this flat, non-AcroForm page (unlike the sibling National ID schema, where getAnnotations()'s radioButton: true flag on true PDF radio widgets justified merging options into an enum). Matches this registry's established convention for flat checklists with no such evidence (e.g. the NO driving-licence-application-equivalent schema's own licence-class checklist).
  • exclusivityGroups is used for the 3-way delivery-method choice (deliveryToAuthority/deliveryToHomeAddress/deliveryToOtherAddress), the one place in this form a real-world constraint is genuinely asserted: a physical licence can only be delivered to one place. The sibling deliveryExpress checkbox is deliberately left out of the group as an independent delivery-speed modifier, applicable under any method.
  • Wet-ink signature lines are not modelled as data fields (no signature primitive exists in the spec's field-type vocabulary). The applicant's in-person signature is instead modelled as a required documents[] attestation (applicantSignature), matching this registry's convention for the sibling at/bmi/national-identity-card-application schema's own applicantOrRepresentativeSignature entry; only its accompanying date is modelled as a field (applicationDate).

Scope and disclosed boundaries — excluded office-only fields (page 2)

Explicitly out of scope, matching this registry's established exclusion pattern for staff-filled fields:

  • Eingangsstempel (receipt stamp) and Datum und Unterschrift des Beamten (date/signature of the official).
  • Identitätsnachweis erfolgt durch / Meldenachweis / Prüfung des Hauptwohnsitzes durch ZMR-Abfrage (identity/residence verification performed by the caseworker).
  • Gesundheitliche Eignung nachgewiesen durch and its sub-items (health fitness proof — private/official medical certificate, criminal register, administrative record, first-aid course), all authority-side verification checks.
  • The entire "Behördliche Verfügungen" (official orders) block: licence production status, fee receipt, serial numbers, issuing authority/date, entered code(s), and the pickup-confirmation signature the licence holder signs later, in person, at collection — a distinct, later event from the application itself.

Conformance fixtures

9 fixtures are committed under conformance/at/bmi/driving-licence-application/1.0.0/: 2 valid submissions (a minimal filing with only the 8 required fields, and a fuller filing populating optional personal-data fields, existing-licence details, a duplicate reason, two licence classes, a reinstatement sub-reason with its conditionally-required date, and a conditionally-required "other address" delivery) and 7 mutation fixtures, each verified to fail validation: a missing required familyName, an invalid gender enum value, an invalid applicationDate format, an unknown-field rejection, a requiredWhen violation (deliveryToOtherAddress: true without otherDeliveryAddress), an exclusivityGroups violation (deliveryToAuthority and deliveryToHomeAddress both true), and an invalid licenceClassAM type (string instead of boolean). The requiredWhen mutation surfaces 2 raw ajv error entries (the outer if/then wrapper plus the inner missing-required error) for what is a single semantic violation — an ajv reporting artifact of how if/then failures compose, not a schema defect; every fixture's valid/invalid verdict matches its expected outcome.

Independence and reproducibility

No submission was made and no in-person visit to an Austrian driving-licence authority was required to author this schema. Both tools/validate.mjs and tools/validate-ajv.mjs were run against the schema document itself and pass (565/565 registry-wide); every fixture listed above was additionally validated against a derived JSON Schema built from this document's own fields/requiredWhen/exclusivityGroups constraints (ajv 2020-12), matching the expected valid/invalid outcome for each fixture. GovSchema is an independent, non-profit standards body; it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Republic of Austria, the Bundesministerium für Inneres, the Bundesministerium für europäische und internationale Angelegenheiten, or any Austrian driving-licence authority.

View the raw record (VERIFICATION.md)

Version history

  • 1.0.0 draft latest this page has verification record schema.json

Independent and non-affiliated

GovSchema is an independent, open-source project. This reference is not produced, reviewed, or endorsed by Bundesministerium für Inneres (BMI) — the driving-licence authority (Bezirkshauptmannschaft, or in Vienna the Landespolizeidirektion Wien) that administers driving entitlements under the Führerscheingesetz (FSG) or any government. The authoritative source is always the live government form and its official instructions.