[Evaluation of cardiovascular diseases in connection with the issuing or renewal of driving licenses following the European Union law harmonization].

The European Union (EU) law harmonization expects from each EU country to apply the same principles and same standards of the medical evaluation of driving licenses. All EU member states have to apply common evaluations of the driving licenses - based on the EU Regulation 2016/1006 - at the latest from January of this year. Hungary launched this new regulation on the 12th of January 2018. The most important source document of the current national regulation is the expert consensus document "New Standards for Driving and Cardiovascular Diseases" published in 2013. This is the professional evaulation of the cardiovascular diseases which can influence driving, and its importance is highlighted because even the Hungarian law listed this document as a resource. In this summary, in accordance with the current law, we provide a practical guide for the day-to-day work of assessing the permission of driving licence in connection with the different kinds of cardiovascular diseases. Orv Hetil. 2019; 160(10): 370-377.