A Member State Licence Is Simply Valid; Anything Else Lasts Six Months at the Most, and Only If the Registrar Has Said So
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Bolivia on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
172 exceptions recorded across 63 countries · none match Bolivia to Cyprus · Driving and licence exchange
Cypriot licensing law has two doors and they are very different sizes. A driving licence or learner's licence issued by a competent authority of a European Union member state is recognised by the Republic and has the same force as the corresponding Cypriot licence; once the holder takes up habitual residence in Cyprus the Registrar may apply the Cypriot rules on period of validity, minimum age and the minimum physical and mental fitness of the holder, and may endorse the licence with what he needs for its administration. The holder is subject to Cypriot traffic law while driving, and may hold only one valid member state licence at a time. For a licence from anywhere else there is no recognition as such: article 20 lets the Registrar recognise, by a notification published in the Official Gazette, a licence issued by the competent authority of any country, for as long as it is valid and in any case for no more than six months, and only if he is satisfied that the conditions and criteria that country sets are not inferior to those of the Cypriot Law. A Cypriot licence of your own requires habitual residence in the Republic or proof of at least six months at a tertiary institution, a certificate of competence, the minimum physical and mental capacities, the fee, the minimum age, and that you hold no other valid member state licence - and article 30(1)(a) requires a certificate of competence from every person applying for a licence for the first time.
At a glance
- A European Union licence
- Recognised, with the same force as a Cypriot one
Article 19(1) of the Driving Licence Law 94(I)/2001 as amended by Law 88(I) of 2016.
- What changes on moving here
- The Registrar may apply Cypriot rules on validity, minimum age and fitness
Article 19(2), which also lets him endorse the licence with what he needs to administer it.
- A licence from anywhere else
- Recognised for no more than six months, and only by a published notification of the Registrar
Article 20, which also requires the Registrar to be satisfied that the issuing country's conditions are not inferior to the Cypriot ones.
- Holding two licences
- Not allowed - one valid member state licence at a time
Article 19(4), and article 5(δ) makes not holding another member state licence a condition of being granted a Cypriot one.
- Test for a first licence
- A certificate of competence, from a theoretical and practical examination
Article 30(1)(α) requires it of every person applying for the first time, and article 5(β) makes it a condition of the grant.
- Residence condition
- Habitual residence in the Republic, or six months at a tertiary institution
Article 5(α) of Law 94(I)/2001.
- Minimum age for a car
- 18 for categories B, B+E and B1
Article 6(1)(β)(ii) of Law 94(I)/2001.
Requirements
- Habitual residence in the Republic, or proof of at least six months at a tertiary institution
- A certificate of competence, required of everyone applying for a first licence
- The minimum physical and mental capacities, certified under article 33
- Not holding another valid licence issued by a European Union member state
Country-level policy
The Office of the Law Commissioner prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes and the Republic serves them as PDFs from gov.cy. The edition of the Aliens and Immigration Law, Cap. 105, is dated August 2024 and carries the amendments down to Law 111(I) of 2024. Its own legal notice then withdraws most of what a reader would take it to be: the edition does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term, because the sections were not renumbered and it was never approved by the House of Representatives; it is published for practical convenience and does not replace the text of the laws it brings together; and only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette are authentic. The English edition of the free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 says the same thing in English, and adds that it is a translation. What fills the gap is a commercial service: CyLaw, run by the Cyprus Bar Association, publishes consolidated texts that are materially more current than the state's own - its Income Tax Law carries the rate bands that apply from tax year 2026, where the Tax Department's own PDF of the same Act still prints the bands of 2008. The Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its readers to CyLaw for the consolidated text of its own founding Act rather than to anything the state publishes.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Bolivia
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«19.—(1) Άδεια οδήγησης ή άδεια οδήγησης μαθητευομένου που έχει εκδοθεί από αρμόδια αρχή κράτους - μέλους της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης αναγνωρίζεται από τη Δημοκρατία και, τηρουμένων των διατάξεων του εδαφίου (2), έχει την ίδια ισχύ όπως και η αντίστοιχη άδεια οδήγησης ή άδεια οδήγησης μαθητευομένου που εκδίδεται δυνάμει των διατάξεων του παρόντος Νόμου.»Our translation - not official
19.-(1) A driving licence or learner driving licence issued by a competent authority of a member state of the European Union is recognised by the Republic and, subject to the provisions of subsection (2), has the same force as the corresponding driving licence or learner driving licence issued under the provisions of this Law.
Mutual recognition, stated as an equivalence rather than as an exchange.
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The legal-information service of the Cyprus Bar Association at https://www.cylaw.org/, and in practice the only place a consolidated Cypriot statute can be read. Each Act has an address of the form /nomoi/enop/non-ind/<year>_<part>_<number>/full.html - the Income Tax Law 118(I)/2002 at /2002_1_118/full.html, the Civil Registry Law 141(I)/2002 at /2002_1_141/full.html, the General Healthcare System Law 89(I)/2001 at /2001_1_89/full.html, the Driving Licence Law 94(I)/2001 at /2001_1_94/full.html, the research-and-studies Law 7(I)/2019 at /2019_1_7/full.html, the payment accounts Law 64(I)/2017 at /2017_1_64/full.html. Every page opens with an Ιστορικό Τροποποιήσεων listing each amending Act in order, and each provision is followed by the Acts that made it, so the amendment chain is readable rather than inferred. The consolidations are materially more current than the state's own: the Income Tax Law here carries amendments to 67(I)/2026 where the Tax Department's PDF stops at 219(I)/2025. The pages are served in a non-Unicode encoding that a plain client renders as mojibake; the project's fetcher handles it and the stored text is clean Greek.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It is not a government publisher.** It is the Bar Association's service, it carries no statement of authority, it states no cut-off date for any consolidation, and nothing on it has legal force - the authentic text is the printed Official Gazette, as the Office of the Law Commissioner's own editions say. It must therefore never be the only source behind a topic: every Cyprus record that quotes it also carries a government source. It cannot be cited as proof that a provision is in force, only as the best available reading of what it now says, and a figure taken from it that contradicts a government publication has to be reported as a contradiction rather than resolved in its favour. It is worth noting who relies on it anyway: the Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its own readers here for the consolidated text of the General Healthcare System Laws.
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«20. Ο Έφορος μπορεί, με γνωστοποίησή του που δημοσιεύεται στην Επίσημη Εφημερίδα της Δημοκρατίας, να αναγνωρίσει άδεια οδήγησης ή άδεια οδήγησης μαθητευομένου που εκδίδεται από αρμόδια αρχή οποιασδήποτε χώρας, για το χρονικό διάστημα που βρίσκεται σε ισχύ και, σε κάθε περίπτωση, για χρονικό διάστημα που δεν υπερβαίνει τους έξι μήνες, αν πεισθεί ότι οι προϋποθέσεις και τα κριτήρια που τίθενται από τη νομοθεσία της συγκεκριμένης χώρας για τη χορήγηση της άδειας δεν υστερούν των αντίστοιχων προϋποθέσεων και κριτηρίων που τίθενται από τις διατάξεις του παρόντος Νόμου.»Our translation - not official
20. The Registrar may, by notification published in the Official Gazette of the Republic, recognise a driving licence or learner driving licence issued by the competent authority of any country, for the period during which it is in force and, in any event, for a period not exceeding six months, if he is satisfied that the conditions and criteria laid down by the legislation of that country for the grant of the licence are not inferior to the corresponding conditions and criteria laid down by the provisions of this Law.
The whole of what the Law does for a licence from outside the Union. It is a discretion exercised by notification, a ceiling of six months, and no exchange.
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The legal-information service of the Cyprus Bar Association at https://www.cylaw.org/, and in practice the only place a consolidated Cypriot statute can be read. Each Act has an address of the form /nomoi/enop/non-ind/<year>_<part>_<number>/full.html - the Income Tax Law 118(I)/2002 at /2002_1_118/full.html, the Civil Registry Law 141(I)/2002 at /2002_1_141/full.html, the General Healthcare System Law 89(I)/2001 at /2001_1_89/full.html, the Driving Licence Law 94(I)/2001 at /2001_1_94/full.html, the research-and-studies Law 7(I)/2019 at /2019_1_7/full.html, the payment accounts Law 64(I)/2017 at /2017_1_64/full.html. Every page opens with an Ιστορικό Τροποποιήσεων listing each amending Act in order, and each provision is followed by the Acts that made it, so the amendment chain is readable rather than inferred. The consolidations are materially more current than the state's own: the Income Tax Law here carries amendments to 67(I)/2026 where the Tax Department's PDF stops at 219(I)/2025. The pages are served in a non-Unicode encoding that a plain client renders as mojibake; the project's fetcher handles it and the stored text is clean Greek.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It is not a government publisher.** It is the Bar Association's service, it carries no statement of authority, it states no cut-off date for any consolidation, and nothing on it has legal force - the authentic text is the printed Official Gazette, as the Office of the Law Commissioner's own editions say. It must therefore never be the only source behind a topic: every Cyprus record that quotes it also carries a government source. It cannot be cited as proof that a provision is in force, only as the best available reading of what it now says, and a figure taken from it that contradicts a government publication has to be reported as a contradiction rather than resolved in its favour. It is worth noting who relies on it anyway: the Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its own readers here for the consolidated text of the General Healthcare System Laws.
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«30.—(1) Πιστοποιητικό ικανότητας υποβάλλεται μαζί με αίτηση για απόκτηση άδειας οδήγησης από κάθε πρόσωπο, το οποίο- (α) Απευθύνεται για έκδοση για πρώτη φορά άδειας οδήγησης για μηχανοκίνητο όχημα οποιασδήποτε κατηγορίας ή ειδικής κατηγορίας,»Our translation - not official
30.-(1) A certificate of competence is submitted together with an application for a driving licence by every person who - (a) Applies for the issue for the first time of a driving licence for a motor vehicle of any category or special category,
The test requirement, expressed as applying to a first licence rather than to a first Cypriot licence.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The legal-information service of the Cyprus Bar Association at https://www.cylaw.org/, and in practice the only place a consolidated Cypriot statute can be read. Each Act has an address of the form /nomoi/enop/non-ind/<year>_<part>_<number>/full.html - the Income Tax Law 118(I)/2002 at /2002_1_118/full.html, the Civil Registry Law 141(I)/2002 at /2002_1_141/full.html, the General Healthcare System Law 89(I)/2001 at /2001_1_89/full.html, the Driving Licence Law 94(I)/2001 at /2001_1_94/full.html, the research-and-studies Law 7(I)/2019 at /2019_1_7/full.html, the payment accounts Law 64(I)/2017 at /2017_1_64/full.html. Every page opens with an Ιστορικό Τροποποιήσεων listing each amending Act in order, and each provision is followed by the Acts that made it, so the amendment chain is readable rather than inferred. The consolidations are materially more current than the state's own: the Income Tax Law here carries amendments to 67(I)/2026 where the Tax Department's PDF stops at 219(I)/2025. The pages are served in a non-Unicode encoding that a plain client renders as mojibake; the project's fetcher handles it and the stored text is clean Greek.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It is not a government publisher.** It is the Bar Association's service, it carries no statement of authority, it states no cut-off date for any consolidation, and nothing on it has legal force - the authentic text is the printed Official Gazette, as the Office of the Law Commissioner's own editions say. It must therefore never be the only source behind a topic: every Cyprus record that quotes it also carries a government source. It cannot be cited as proof that a provision is in force, only as the best available reading of what it now says, and a figure taken from it that contradicts a government publication has to be reported as a contradiction rather than resolved in its favour. It is worth noting who relies on it anyway: the Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its own readers here for the consolidated text of the General Healthcare System Laws.
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«5. Άδεια οδήγησης για κατηγορία ή ειδική κατηγορία μηχανοκίνητου οχήματος, όπως αυτές καθορίζονται στο Παράρτημα 13 του παρόντος Νόμου, χορηγείται σε αιτητή ο οποίος- (α) Έχει τη συνήθη διαμονή του στη Δημοκρατία ή αποδεικνύει ότι φοιτά σε σχολή τριτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης για χρονικό διάστημα τουλάχιστον έξι μηνών»The six conditions of the grant, of which the first is habitual residence in the Republic or six months at a tertiary institution.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The legal-information service of the Cyprus Bar Association at https://www.cylaw.org/, and in practice the only place a consolidated Cypriot statute can be read. Each Act has an address of the form /nomoi/enop/non-ind/<year>_<part>_<number>/full.html - the Income Tax Law 118(I)/2002 at /2002_1_118/full.html, the Civil Registry Law 141(I)/2002 at /2002_1_141/full.html, the General Healthcare System Law 89(I)/2001 at /2001_1_89/full.html, the Driving Licence Law 94(I)/2001 at /2001_1_94/full.html, the research-and-studies Law 7(I)/2019 at /2019_1_7/full.html, the payment accounts Law 64(I)/2017 at /2017_1_64/full.html. Every page opens with an Ιστορικό Τροποποιήσεων listing each amending Act in order, and each provision is followed by the Acts that made it, so the amendment chain is readable rather than inferred. The consolidations are materially more current than the state's own: the Income Tax Law here carries amendments to 67(I)/2026 where the Tax Department's PDF stops at 219(I)/2025. The pages are served in a non-Unicode encoding that a plain client renders as mojibake; the project's fetcher handles it and the stored text is clean Greek.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It is not a government publisher.** It is the Bar Association's service, it carries no statement of authority, it states no cut-off date for any consolidation, and nothing on it has legal force - the authentic text is the printed Official Gazette, as the Office of the Law Commissioner's own editions say. It must therefore never be the only source behind a topic: every Cyprus record that quotes it also carries a government source. It cannot be cited as proof that a provision is in force, only as the best available reading of what it now says, and a figure taken from it that contradicts a government publication has to be reported as a contradiction rather than resolved in its favour. It is worth noting who relies on it anyway: the Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its own readers here for the consolidated text of the General Healthcare System Laws.
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Practical notes
There is no exchange provision in Law 94(I)/2001 for a licence issued outside the European Union. What the Law offers is recognition for at most six months under article 20, and after that a licence of your own under article 5, for which article 30(1)(α) requires a certificate of competence from anyone applying for a first licence. Whether the Road Transport Department operates a documentary exchange for particular countries under the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Regulations could not be established: the Department's site at mcw.gov.cy was read at its index, services and announcements pages on 2026-10-11 and carries no such page at those addresses, and the Regulations themselves were not read.
The notifications by which the Registrar recognises particular countries' licences are published in the Official Gazette and were not read, so this record cannot say which countries are covered or on what terms.
The Law is quoted from the Bar Association's consolidation, which carries the amendments down to 2024. The Republic publishes no consolidated edition of it.
- consolidatesΟ Περί Άδειας Οδήγησης Νόμος του 2001 (94(I)/2001), ενοποιημένο κείμενο
CyLaw, Παγκύπριος Δικηγορικός Σύλλογος (Cyprus Bar Association)
About this source
The legal-information service of the Cyprus Bar Association at https://www.cylaw.org/, and in practice the only place a consolidated Cypriot statute can be read. Each Act has an address of the form /nomoi/enop/non-ind/<year>_<part>_<number>/full.html - the Income Tax Law 118(I)/2002 at /2002_1_118/full.html, the Civil Registry Law 141(I)/2002 at /2002_1_141/full.html, the General Healthcare System Law 89(I)/2001 at /2001_1_89/full.html, the Driving Licence Law 94(I)/2001 at /2001_1_94/full.html, the research-and-studies Law 7(I)/2019 at /2019_1_7/full.html, the payment accounts Law 64(I)/2017 at /2017_1_64/full.html. Every page opens with an Ιστορικό Τροποποιήσεων listing each amending Act in order, and each provision is followed by the Acts that made it, so the amendment chain is readable rather than inferred. The consolidations are materially more current than the state's own: the Income Tax Law here carries amendments to 67(I)/2026 where the Tax Department's PDF stops at 219(I)/2025. The pages are served in a non-Unicode encoding that a plain client renders as mojibake; the project's fetcher handles it and the stored text is clean Greek.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It is not a government publisher.** It is the Bar Association's service, it carries no statement of authority, it states no cut-off date for any consolidation, and nothing on it has legal force - the authentic text is the printed Official Gazette, as the Office of the Law Commissioner's own editions say. It must therefore never be the only source behind a topic: every Cyprus record that quotes it also carries a government source. It cannot be cited as proof that a provision is in force, only as the best available reading of what it now says, and a figure taken from it that contradicts a government publication has to be reported as a contradiction rather than resolved in its favour. It is worth noting who relies on it anyway: the Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its own readers here for the consolidated text of the General Healthcare System Laws.
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- administersΤμήμα Οδικών Μεταφορών (Road Transport Department)
Τμήμα Οδικών Μεταφορών, Υπουργείο Μεταφορών, Επικοινωνιών και Έργων
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The department that issues Cypriot driving licences and registers vehicles, publishing a Lotus Notes site at https://www.mcw.gov.cy/mcw/rtd/rtd.nsf/ in Greek, English and Turkish. Its index, services and announcements views are addressable as /index_gr/index_gr?OpenDocument, /rtd99_gr/rtd99_gr?OpenDocument and /rtd00_gr/rtd00_gr?OpenDocument, and online services run from a separate host at rtd.mcw.gov.cy. The site answers through the extraction service; a direct fetch to mcw.gov.cy failed to connect.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: **It does not publish the one thing a newcomer needs from it.** The index, services and announcements views were read on 2026-10-11 and none of them carries a page on exchanging a licence issued outside the European Union; what they carry is announcements, test dates, recalls and photographs of the district offices. Nor does it publish the notifications by which the Registrar recognises a particular country's licence under article 20 of the Driving Licence Law - those appear in the Official Gazette. So it cannot be cited for an exchange procedure, for which countries' licences are recognised, or for the terms on which they are. Its content is organised as Notes documents with opaque hexadecimal addresses under /All/, which do not survive a reorganisation of the database.
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