Netherlands Driving Licence Online Renewal (Rijbewijs Online Verlengen)

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-03

Sources examined

• Document (id, version): nl/rdw/drivers-licence-renewal / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
• Authority: Netherlands Vehicle Authority (Rijksdienst voor het Wegverkeer, RDW).
• Primary sources (fetched directly, HTTP 200):
  • https://www.rdw.nl/het-rijbewijs/aanvragen-of-verlengen/rijbewijs-online-verlengen — the "Rijbewijs online verlengen" service page: eligibility conditions (participating municipality, valid Dutch licence, DigiD app with ID-check) and the three-step process narrative.
  • RDW brochure "Uw rijbewijs online verlengen" (reference 3 B 2400b), linked from the RDW site — full text of the three numbered steps (photographer session and application code; online application, pickup location choice, and iDEAL/Wero payment of EUR 53.65; pickup and surrender of the current licence). Downloaded and text-extracted with pdfjs-dist (getTextContent() across all 4 pages), the same extraction method used for nl/kvk/sole-proprietorship-registration-eenmanszaak.
  • https://www.rdw.nl/het-rijbewijs/aanvragen-of-verlengen — general renewal/application landing page, confirming the online-vs-gemeente channel split and linking to the lost/stolen and Gezondheidsverklaring pages.
  • https://www.rdw.nl/het-rijbewijs/aanvragen-of-verlengen/gezondheidsverklaring-aanvragen — who must complete a CBR Gezondheidsverklaring (health declaration) before renewing: first applications and new categories, holders turning 75+ at expiry (or 65+ whose licence expires at/after 75), category C/D (lorry/bus) applicants, drivers with a relevant medical condition, and certain non-EU/EEA licence exchanges; confirms the "Verklaring van Geschiktheid" (fitness-to-drive declaration) that follows a positive Gezondheidsverklaring is valid for 1 year and that CBR processing can take up to 4 months.
  • https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/rijbewijs/vraag-en-antwoord/hoe-kan-ik-als-75-plusser-mijn-rijbewijs-verlengen — official (Rijksoverheid.nl) confirmation of the 75+ renewal sequence (Gezondheidsverklaring started 4 months before expiry → CBR medical appointment → CBR fitness decision → renew at the municipality).
  • https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/rijbewijs/vraag-en-antwoord/welke-rijbewijscategorieen-zijn-er — official list and description of every Dutch driving licence category code (AM, A1, A2, A, B, BE (code 96), C1, C1E, C, CE, D1, D1E, D, DE, T), used verbatim for categoryRequested's enum.
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-03.
• Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer — initial authoring source review).

What was confirmed against the source

| Source element | Field(s) / document(s) | |---|---| | RDW brochure, "De voorwaarden" (conditions) | livesInParticipatingMunicipality, currentLicenceEligibleForOnlineRenewal, hasDigidAppWithIdCheck | | RDW brochure, "U vraagt een verlenging... of een categorie-uitbreiding" | renewalReason, categoryRequested | | RDW 'Gezondheidsverklaring aanvragen' — who needs a health declaration | turning75OrOlderAtExpiry, appliesForOrHoldsCategoryCOrD, hasMedicalConditionAffectingDriving | | RDW 'Gezondheidsverklaring aanvragen' — "Bij de aanvraag van uw eerste rijbewijs en bij iedere nieuwe rijbewijscategorie die u haalt (geldt niet voor bromfietsrijbewijs: categorie AM)" (any new category except AM also triggers the health declaration) | geschiktheidVerklaringObtained's and documents[].geschiktheidVerklaring's renewalReason == "category_extension" AND categoryRequested != "AM" requiredWhen branch | | RDW 'Gezondheidsverklaring aanvragen' — Verklaring van Geschiktheid 1-year validity | geschiktheidVerklaringObtained, documents[].geschiktheidVerklaring | | RDW brochure, Stap 1 (photographer session and application code) | applicationCode, documents[].digitalPhotoAndSignature | | RDW brochure, Stap 2 (pickup location, iDEAL payment) | pickupLocation, documents[].renewalFeePayment | | RDW brochure, Stap 3 (surrender current licence at pickup) | documents[].currentLicenceSurrendered | | Rijksoverheid.nl driving-licence category list | categoryRequested's enum (AM, A1, A2, A, B, BE, C1, C1E, C, CE, D1, D1E, D, DE, T) |

What is NOT independently confirmed / out of scope

• The mijn RDW online renewal screens themselves. rdw.nl/rijbewijsverlengen's actual application form is gated behind a DigiD-app-with-ID-check login; this session could not authenticate to it (no test DigiD credential available) and so could not confirm the screens' exact field-by-field layout, whether pickupLocation is a free-text entry or a picker over a fixed list of gemeente locations, or whether any additional fields (e.g. contact email/phone) are collected online rather than already known to RDW via the applicant's BSN/BRP record. This document is transcribed from the RDW service page and brochure's prose description of the flow, the same discipline gb/dvla/driving-licence-renewal-photocard and gb/dvla/vehicle-tax applied to their own gated online services.
• cbr.nl was entirely unreachable in this session. Every attempt to fetch any cbr.nl page (both via the fetch tool and a direct curl) failed with a connection timeout, not a bot-check or login wall — the same class of failure as passports.gov.au/dfat.gov.au documented in this registry's gov-au-wayback-workaround sourcing note, except no Wayback Machine snapshot was available for the specific CBR pages needed here either. As a result:
  • The Gezondheidsverklaring's own published list of medical topics/questions (third-party driving-school and keuringsarts sites report roughly 14 topics — vision, hearing, diabetes, cardiovascular conditions, neurological conditions, dementia, stroke, loss of consciousness, Menière's disease, alcohol/drug use, psychiatric conditions, sleep, and medication) is not itemised in this schema at all. Reproducing that breakdown from secondary summarizer sites rather than CBR's own page would not meet this registry's source-fidelity bar, so hasMedicalConditionAffectingDriving is modelled as a single boolean trigger only, consistent with the same-purpose field in nz/nzta/drivers-licence-renewal.
  • No CBR fee figure for the Gezondheidsverklaring/medical examination itself is referenced (only the RDW online renewal fee, which RDW's own pages do publish, is modelled as documents[].renewalFeePayment).
• Exact wording/mechanism of the online payment step. The brochure states the applicant pays "meteen... met iDEAL" (immediately, by iDEAL); the RDW service page additionally names Wero as an accepted method. No fee exemption (e.g. by age) is referenced by either NL source, unlike gb/dvla/driving-licence-renewal-photocard's feeExemptionReason — this document therefore models renewalFeePayment as unconditionally required, not as a field with a choice of payment method, since no source describes a genuine applicant-facing choice beyond "iDEAL or Wero".
• The in-person gemeente channel (for applicants who fail the livesInParticipatingMunicipality, currentLicenceEligibleForOnlineRenewal, or hasDigidAppWithIdCheck eligibility gates, and every first-time applicant) is out of scope — modelled only as a transitions exit, per RDW's own guidance to "Ga dan naar uw gemeente" (go to your municipality instead).
• Lost/stolen licence replacement is a distinct RDW procedure ("Rijbewijs aanvragen na vermissing of diefstal") and is out of scope, consistent with this registry's one-schema-per-distinct-process convention (e.g. us/dos/lost-or-stolen-passport-ds64 vs. us/dos/passport-renewal-ds82).
• Address/contact/identity fields. Not modelled as fields at all: RDW already holds the applicant's identity and address via the BSN/BRP lookup triggered by DigiD login, and no source describes the online screens asking the applicant to re-enter them (unlike a first-time paper application at a municipality counter).

Scope and jurisdiction notes

• This is the second NL registry entry in a new vertical: the first two NL schemas (nl/kvk/sole-proprietorship-registration-eenmanszaak, nl/belastingdienst/individual-income-tax-return-m-form) covered Business Formation and Taxes; this is the first NL entry in DMV. NL remains open in Visa, Passport, and National ID & Civic Documents.
• The DMV vertical was chosen for this cycle because RDW's online renewal service and brochure gave the strongest publicly-reachable sourcing of NL's four remaining verticals investigated this cycle: NL's passport/ID-card process is entirely in-person at a gemeente counter with no citizen-facing downloadable form (RvIG's own forms page lists only internal municipality-clerk forms), and NL's Schengen visa application is filled in entirely inside an account-gated Ministry of Foreign Affairs portal with no downloadable PDF equivalent (nederlandwereldwijd.nl states explicitly: "U vult het visumaanvraagformulier online in... [dit] is geen downloadbaar PDF-bestand").
• Conditional flow uses requiredWhen/visibleWhen (GSP-0013) for the category-extension and health-declaration branches, and steps[].transitions with exitReason (GSP-0013 §4) for the three eligibility gates that genuinely exit this online-renewal flow to a different, unmodelled process — the same distinction nl/kvk/sole-proprietorship-registration-eenmanszaak drew between its own non-disqualifying conditional fields and sg/acra/sole-proprietorship-registration's genuine eligibility-gate transitions.
• hasMedicalConditionAffectingDriving is marked classification: health per GSP-0006's advisory vocabulary.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance to status: verified, a reviewer with a genuine Dutch DigiD account and an eligible existing driving licence completes an actual mijn RDW online renewal (or has independent confirmation from someone who has), confirming: the exact field set and screen order behind the DigiD login, whether pickupLocation is free text or a fixed picker, and the current fee and accepted payment methods. Separately, a reviewer who can reach cbr.nl should confirm (or refute) the third-party-reported Gezondheidsverklaring question list and decide whether to model it as itemised fields — recording the outcome here and shipping a new schema version if discrepancies are found (VERSIONING.md §3, immutability).

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-01 (6 months).