Leistungen A-Z

More detailed information can be found on the website of your local road traffic authority.

Parking facilities may be granted for severely disabled persons with exceptional walking disabilities, bilateral amelia or phocomelia or with comparable functional limitations as well as for blind people in the form of an EU parking card ("blue parking card").

Severely disabled persons who are equal to the above-mentioned group of persons (special groups of severely disabled persons) can be granted parking facilities – limited to the federal territory – ("orange parking permit").

The parking permit offers a wealth of special parking rights, e.g. free parking in parking areas.

The parking card is personal and may only be used in the presence of the authorized person, regardless of the vehicle used.

• You are a severely disabled person with an exceptional walking disability and have a driving licence or
• You belong to one of the following groups of persons:
  • blind people;
  • severely disabled persons with bilateral amelia or phocomelia or with comparable functional disorders, whereby the time limits that require the parking disc to be operated do not apply , or
• You belong to one of the following groups of persons:
  • severely disabled persons with the marks "G" and "B" and a degree of disability of at least 80 for functional disorders of the lower limbs alone (and the lumbar spine, insofar as these affect the ability to walk);
  • severely disabled persons with the marks "G" and "B" and a degree of disability of at least 70 for functional disorders of the lower limbs (and the lumbar spine, insofar as these affect the ability to walk) and at the same time a degree of disability of at least 50 for functional disorders of the heart or respiratory organs;
  • severely disabled persons suffering from Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, if there is a degree of disability of at least 60;
  • severely disabled persons with an artificial anus and at the same time artificial urinary diversion, if there is a degree of disability of at least 70.

• Application (to be requested from the competent authority)

• Copy of severely disabled person's pass or copy of notification of the pension office
• Copy of identity card
• current photo (only for EU parking card)

• If applicable, equality certificate from the pension office
• if applicable, a power of attorney or the supervisor's card

Additional documentation may be required.

none

The application for exemption must be submitted to the locally competent road traffic authority.

The permanent exemption is granted for a maximum of five years. It may be revoked.

the road traffic authority of the respective district or the independent or large cities belonging to the district

§ 46 paragraph 1 number 11 Road Traffic Regulations (StVO)

to § 46 paragraph 1 number 11 of the General Administrative Regulation on the Road Traffic Regulations (VwV-StVO)

• Decree of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning Department 4 - Road Transport - No. 05/2022 of 22 August 2022 (granting parking facilities for special groups of severely disabled people)
• Official Journal of Brandenburg – No. 36 of 14 September 2022

The exemptions apply to the whole of Germany.

Further information can be found on the website of your local road traffic authority.

Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning