Road Safety Awareness Course
Verified 03 October 2025 - Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
You risk invalidation from your driver's license and wondering how to collect points? You can earn points if you take a road safety awareness course. We tell you what you need to know.
This page presents the Road Safety Awareness Course which makes it possible to recover points. It does not present the road safety awareness course given by the judicial authority as an alternative to prosecution (conditional dismissal, criminal composition), as main sentence or additional penalty, or as an obligation under a probationary stay.
It depends on your situation.
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Withdrawal of 3 or more points on a probationary permit
You have a probationary driver's license when you get the permit for the 1re once or after a judicial invalidation or annulment. The probationary license is assigned an initial number of 6 points and is then periodically increased by several points if no offense resulting in a loss of points is committed.
In the event of an infringement punishable by a removal of 3 or more points on probation, the follow-up to a road safety awareness course shall be mandatory.
You receive from the Ministry of the Interior a registered letter (48N). This letter 48N you notified the removal of points and the obligation to complete an internship within 4 months of receiving the letter.
The internship allows you to recover up to 4 points within the maximum points of your probationary license.
Failure to comply with the obligation to complete the internship within the 4-month period is punishable by a fine of up to €750. You also risk a suspension of driving license up to 3 years.
Other situation
You can choose to take an internship for collect points on your driver's license. It is possible to recover up to 4 points within your license limit (the ceiling is 12 points, or 6 points for one probationary permit less than 1 year old).
Your license must be valid (you must have 1 point or more).
You can do 1 internship maximum per year allowing a reallocation of up to 4 points.
Example :
If you do an internship of 1eroctober to october 2, 2025, you can do a new internship from october 1er October 2026.
The price medium of the internship is €200.
However, the person responsible for the internship is free to set the price.
Road Safety Awareness Course aims to prevent the repetition of dangerous behavior. It is led by a road safety expert and a psychologist with authorization to lead the internships in force.
The internship lasts 2 consecutive days (7 hours per day) and includes 2 modules:
- Module on general factors of road insecurity (half a day)
- Specific module for the prevention of risky driving, either on speed and associated problems, or on driving under the influence of psychoactive substances (one and a half days)
If necessary, a personalized maintenance and/or a driving session can be organized. The interview, of at least 45 minutes, takes place outside the hours of the internship with a psychologist with a valid authorization to lead.
The internship program is detailed at annex 6 to the order of 26 june 2012.
You must take the road safety awareness course in a establishment approved by the prefect.
You can register for an internship in any department. The list of approved establishments is available on the website of each prefecture. You can also contact the prefecture.
One probationary certificate you will be given if you have completed the entire training.
You receive a letter (letter 47) indicating the points retrieved (please note, the deadline for receiving the letter can be several weeks). In practice, the recovery is done the day after the last day of the internship but the points are visible on your license only when the administration registers your internship certificate. It's the Cert: titleContent the driver's license you depend on who's handling it.
An online service allows you to check how many points you have on your driver's license.
If you don't agree with your points balance, you can make a claim online or by mail.
Please note
If you took a road safety awareness course less than a month and a half ago, it is normal that your points are not visible on your license.
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Who shall I contact
Ministry of the Interior - National Office for Driving Rights
By mail
Ministry of the Interior
National Office of Driving Rights
Place Beauvau
75800 Paris Cedex 08
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