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The European Commission has referred Finland and Portugal to the EU's Court of Justice over their failure to adopt national legislation updating 2009 driver's license requirements.
Finland has yet to fully transpose a directive into law that will ease requirements for people with deteriorated eyesight, diabetes and epilepsy to gain licenses. The deadline to amend rules on driver's licenses was in September 2010.
The 2009 amending directive represents an advantage to those with these conditions because it adapts previous fitness requirements to scientific progress made in the treatment of these impairments.YLE
