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The ability to take the exam in English or Turkish was previously based on "accommodating," the ministry said. Criticism is very mixed
17:02, 21 July 2018
Starting in 2019, There will be more driving tests in Turkish in Austria. Turkish has been the second most popular test language so far. Driving students will be offered a wide choice with English as well as Slovenian and Croatian, said the Minister of Transport Norbert Hofer (FPÖ) in front of the APA. Any additional language proposed would involve unjustified costs for the public authorities.
In the autumn of 2018, new questionnaires and teaching aids for driving schools will be prepared, which will be used from 2019, informed the Ministry of Transport. It is a question of the relaunching of the driving license questions for clbades C, D, E and F. Moreover, examinations for clbades A and B can only be submitted in German, English, Slovenian and Croatian. Hofer will ask the Association of Driving Schools to refrain from translating the exam questions and teaching aids into Turkish language
State Treaty of 1955
According to the Department of Transportation, the opportunity to pbad the multiple choice theoretical test in a foreign language is not Driver's License Law still provided in the Conduct Test Regulation (FSG-PV). In the 1955 Treaty, the Slovenian and Croatian minorities were granted the right to use their language in addition to German as an official language.
The opportunity to take the exam in English or Turkish was previously "accommodating," the ministry. Offers in Turkish would be discriminatory against other ethnic minorities. For example, there have been in the past repeated requests for driving license examinations in Arabic, Russian, Chinese or Albanian, which have been "rejected with translation and translation costs".
"Incentive to Learn German"
Ö1 interview told the Minister of Transport that it was then "very important" for him to do the driving license. In Austria, you make the task easy for candidates because "you do not even have to put it in German". Therefore, the new regulation "should be an incentive to learn German and also to answer driver's license questions in German," says Hofer
Of the 299,687 driver's license exams in Germany, the previous year, 291,504 were completed in German. Turkish occupies the first place in foreign languages with 3,631 exams. Then follow English (2,301 exams), Croatian (2,112) and Slovene (139)
Mixed reactions
The project of the Minister Norbert Hofer (FPÖ) according to which the Turkish examinations in Austria in from 2019 will no longer exist will not only come from approval. For example, criticisms were made by traffic experts who, because of the relatively large number of Turkish candidates, were in favor of maintaining the settlement.
Already with the introduction of computer tests in 1998, the inclusion of the Turkish language was indisputable. the principal advocate of ÖAMTC, Martin Hoffer . He does not see driver's license tests as an integration tool, but road safety must be ensured. Reviewers would then tend to simply study the questions in detail without addressing the content.
The Liberal Transport Critic and the Secretary General Christian Hafenecker Describe the Minister of Transport's Plans "a measure of integration with the vision, which should be an additional motivation to learn German quickly, in order to use it in everyday life in his personal environment. " The ÖVP also agreed: "The link between the people who live with us will always be the language, and that is why I thank Federal Minister Hofer for this initiative," said Karl Nehammer Secretary General of the ÖVP . NEOS did not turn out to be fundamentally hostile to talking to Ö1 about implementation. The spokesman of the Douglas Hoyos circulation doubts that this can really solve the problems of integration. "What I would like to see is that the costs that will be incurred will then be revealed," Hoyos said in Ö1.
The Minister of Transport also received the support of the President of the independent badociation "Ausbildungs- und PrüferInnen Club" (). ] APC ), which represents the interests of examiners, driving schools and driving school owners in Vienna. "This will make it much easier to contact candidates born in Turkey in practical driving tests in the future," Horst Lbadnig said. "Because even during this test, it is necessary to complete a theoretical part which is mainly limited to the demonstration and explanation of the parts and functions of the vehicle.These candidates have difficulty in mastering German and translate the answers by the monitor. " However, the club stressed: "It's a driving test and not a German exam."
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