straggler:
I live and work outside of the EU when not in the UK.
I was told I had to do CPC in my country of residence (which is the UK, for the purposes of this discussion) which is a shame as I have a mate in Ireland who’s a CPC trainer and could have given me a good deal. Ho-hum.
For the regulations your normal country of residence can be any EU state where you reside for at-least 185 days per year, but as you work and live outside of the EU it’s all irrelevant anyway I’m afraid.
This is for NI but I suspect the same rule applies for rest of UK
If some of your periodic training was done in another EU member state
You need to write to the Driver & Vehicle Agency (DVA) to apply for your DQC if you’ve done some of your periodic training in another EU member state.
You must have done at least the last seven hours of your periodic training in the UK to apply to do this.
You’ll need to include:
your NI driving licence number
your phone number
evidence of the address and dates when you lived in that member state this can be a bank statement, utility bill or tax related document
evidence of the names and addresses of your employers for that time
the equivalent of your tax reference or national insurance number in the member states you worked in
a £25 fee to add training taken abroad to your DQC
