51As appears from recital 2 of Directive 2006/126, the directive is intended to contribute to improving road safety and to facilitate the free movement of persons taking up residence in a Member State other than the one which issued the licence. In addition, it appears from recitals 3 and 4 of that directive that the directive expressly aims to solve and avoid problems of transparency for citizens, police forces and the administrations responsible for the administration of driving licences and the falsification of driving licences, resulting from the coexistence of different rules in different Member States and from over 110 different models of driving licences valid in the European Union. The directive thus aims, as stated in paragraph 39 above, ultimately to introduce a single-model driving licence for all Member States, the minimal conditions for the issuing of which are harmonised by that directive and which is set to replace the various driving licences in existence in the Member States, thereby gradually putting an end to the recognition of national driving ability tests.
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