C1 and C Driving Licences + CAP

1️⃣ Driving Licences for Categories C1 and C

📌 To obtain the C1 or C licences you must already hold a B licence ✅ (no minimum holding period required).

🧒 Minimum age: 18 years
🚚 Authorises driving vehicles with:
- Maximum authorised mass (MAM/MMA) over 3,500 kg and under 7,500 kg
- Designed to carry up to 8 passengers + driver
- Excludes vehicles in categories D1 or D

Allows driving vehicles covered by C1 and C1+E non-professionally (for example: motorhomes 🚐)
You must pass the same tests as for those licences (except some listed in Annex V of the Drivers’ Regulations)

🧓 Minimum age: 21 years
Requires having obtained the C1 licence beforehand
Authorises driving:
- 🚛 Vehicles with MAM over 3,500 kg
- Designed to carry up to 8 passengers + driver
- 🚐 May tow light trailers (up to 750 kg MAM)
- If the trailer exceeds 750 kg, the E entitlement is required
❌ Does not authorise the transport of dangerous goods
🟡 For non-agricultural special vehicles with a top speed ≤ 40 km/h and fewer than 9 occupants (including the driver), the licence corresponding to their MAM is required. If they do not exceed 40 km/h, the B licence is sufficient.

👤 Driver’s age	⏳ Licence validity
Up to 65 years	5 years
Over 65 years	3 years

⚠️ The validity period may be reduced if the holder has an illness or impairment that could worsen.

🐀񐐠Licences can be renewed if the driver:

🚫 If the licence is expired, you may not drive with it and it will be seized immediately by traffic officers.

🎓 Mandatory training for certain professional drivers:

✔️ Initial qualification: Obtained separately from the driving licence.
🔁 Periodic training: Required to keep knowledge up to date.
🌍 Required in Spain for drivers of EU companies holding:
- C1, C1+E, C, C+E, D1, D1+E, D, D+E

📜 The CAP certifies that the driver has passed the official courses and exams.

📌 It has no fixed expiry, but its validity depends on completing periodic training.

Drivers of the following are exempt from the CAP:

🚜 Vehicles with a maximum authorised speed below 45 km/h
🚒 Vehicles of the Armed Forces, civil protection, fire brigade or police
🛠️ Vehicles undergoing technical tests, repair or maintenance
🚨 Vehicles used in emergencies or rescue
🚗 Vehicles used for driving lessons for the licence or CAP
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Private carriage of persons or goods
🔧 Private complementary transport with the driver’s own equipment (not the main activity)
🚑 Specially equipped medical transport (basic or advanced life support)
🛠️ Vehicles with fixed machines for specific functions (includes transport of parts necessary for their operation)
🏭 Transport within closed premises not intended for road transport
🗑️ Transport of refuse and waste using special vehicles