Every person driving a motor vehicle in the Czech Republic has to carry either a Czech national driver’s license or an international driver’s license accepted in the Czech Republic. National driver’s licenses issued by provinces of Canada are not accepted in the Czech Republic.

Besides Czech national driver’s licenses, only the following licenses are recognized as a proof of driving qualification in the Czech Republic:

- International or national driver’s license issued on the basis of (according to) the Agreement on road transportation signed in Geneva on September 19, 1949;

- International or national driver’s license issued on the basis of (according to) the Agreement on road traffic signed in Vienna on November 8, 1968;

- National driver’s license issued by EU member state.

Even though Canada is a party to the Agreement on road transportation signed in Geneva in 1949, Canadian driver’s licenses are not issued according to the Agreement. Therefore, every Canadian driver’s license holder wishing to drive a vehicle in the Czech Republic has to obtain an international driver’s license in accordance with the Agreement first.

An alien staying in the Czech Republic on the basis of permanent or long-term residence permit is obliged to replace his national (for a Canadian this means provincial, not the international) driver’s license for Czech driver’s license within three months from the day the residence permit was originally granted.