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Egypt's Interior Ministry announces traffic license fee cuts, one-stop-shop system
September 30, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Egypt's Interior Ministry announced reduced license fees and streamlined procedures for issuing and renewing driving and vehicle licenses, implementing presidential directives.
- The ministry introduced a one-stop-shop system for issuing and renewing all types of driving and vehicle licenses, with electronic payment of declared service fees.
- The ministry cancelled the requirement to present safety and emergency equipment — fire extinguisher, first aid kit, reflective triangle — when issuing or renewing licenses.
- Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfik ordered the measures to ease financial burdens on citizens, implementing President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's directives.
- Trial operation of the new system begins Thursday, October 1 at all traffic units nationwide.






