This is another document from the Royal Automobile Club Espana.
Section 2.2 states the requirementes.
http://www.race.es/opencms/opencms/system/galleries/webrace/downloads/informes_segvial/informe_2008_03_conductores_extranjeros.pdf
Gives all the legal info, although as its for foreigners and in Spain, it typically only comes in one language, the internationally recognised world language that isn`t Spanish.😉
This is translated from the site, I`ve marked the confusing piece.
To the reduction of the accident on Spanish roads
Madrid, 29 April 2008. Real Autom?vil Club de Espa?a, RACE, has analysed accident foreign drivers in our country in the past three years. Among the most important conclusions highlights the fact that the population of Spanish drivers killed in road has declined 15 % from 2005 until 2007, while deaths abroad drivers have increased its proportion to the total accident 12.8 % in 2005 to over 14 per cent in 2007. The weight of foreign drivers in Spain accident breaks with the declining mortality figures in road trend.
The report made by the RACE discusses valid permissions to move in Spain, concluding that in our country there are different options to lead by a foreign driver. We have thus belonging to the European Union not belonging to the European Union and drivers drivers
Non-EU drivers can lead (condition of tourists) 185 days or six months, with the international permit or with your permission source translated into Spanish by an official body. After this period, if you have purchased the normal residence in our country, have a period of 6 months validity of the original permission. At the end of this period, the resident in Spain must either redeem your permission if you have subscribed Spain a bilateral agreement with their country of origin, or to obtain Spanish licence.
Currently, Spain has recognition of driving licence, swaps handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Algeria, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Ecuador, Morocco, Peru, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Andorra, Switzerland, Korea South and Japan. Shortly, incorporation of Brazil, Guatemala and the Philippines.
In the case of community drivers, these not obligation of redeemed from driving, given that there is free movement of persons of Community origin in the European Union. The other hand, must be said that not having obligation to redeem the driving licence are not affected by the permit system by points.
According to the Please don’t run, in Spain will have traded since 2002 up to year 2006, latest available data, more than 557.600 driving licences. The evolution of the accident on road in the period 2005 to 2007, has suffered increased from 12.8 per cent of foreign drivers deaths to the total number of drivers killed in our country, 14.1 per cent of the year 2007, an increase in the proportion of the total number of accidents, compared to the reduction which has been observed in fatal accidents in our country drivers.
By nationalities, the Romanians represented rate with increased mortality between drivers and aliens with 14.5 per cent, followed by Moroccans 14.2 % of fatalities, Portuguese 10.8 % Ecuadorian 6.6 % and British occupiers 6.6 %.
According to data from 2005 provided by INE, inside of groups of foreigners resident in our country, 29 % of Ecuadorians dies in car accident in Spain, 21 % of Romanians dies for this reason, as well as 17 % of the Moroccan population and 14 per cent of the Bulgarian population. If you compare with other collective of foreigners, only 1.9 % of Germans dies in Spain by traffic accident, 2.15 per cent of the British and 3.6 % of the French.
According to the prosecution of road safety of the nearly 3,000 allegations made in Madrid for not wearing driving 64 per cent of cases were foreign drivers. This figure reaches 51 % of cases if we analyse this situation in Catalonia. It is necessary to remember that these complaints will become a crime against the safety of traffic 1 may, at the end of the moratorium established in the reform of the Criminal Code of last December.
Compared to the percentage shed foreign drivers in the total of the accident, the RACE intends to carry out a series of measures to take into account:
For foreigners resident, free courses adapt to the Spanish circulatory reality addressing standards, signaling, uses and customs, active and passive safety, and restraint systems. These courses should be taught by accredited entities such as Autoescuelas or car club, taking that latter, on many occasions, are responsible for examining in the country of origin.
In the conventions which subscribes to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should take precedence road safety criteria to ensure equal treatment of the system of training, evaluation and issuance of permits with the Spanish model. In this regard, and as shows the comparative report between countries, large differences between systems of some countries such as Bolivia, Peru and Argentina, with other showing large differences in the training requirements of the faculty.
On the other hand, been observed that the levels of security, child restraint systems or drinking alcohol belt while driving differs among the foreign population depending on the place of origin, finding far short of the medium use in Spain, according to arise from the data the report prepared by the RACE in collaboration with car clubs of Latin America. For this reason, the RACE requests that the agreements of bilateralism expresses the need to match the degree of knowledge of the rules and customs in traffic and road safety of this group.
Other data from the study is 49 per cent of foreign drivers who died in Spain for the period 2005-2007 was originating in the community, as the British, Germans or Romanians. Therefore the RACE considered a priority campaigns promotional traffic in countries with increased tourist presence in Spain, in order to report on
