Licence points calculator
This works on deductions and recovery. We cannot read your licence balance — only the Portale dell'Automobilista can.
Current points
Details
Result
Recovery
- Restoration of the allocation
- Not yet: 2 years to go
- Clean-period bonus
- Not yet: 2 years to go
- Newly qualified annual credit
- Only for newly qualified drivers
The three rows above are projections of the rule onto what you entered, not a reading of your real balance: the balance is held by the Motorizzazione, not by this site.
- In force as of
- 1 October 2003
Open anomaly
Two anomalies we leave open
Open anomaly
Two different scales for one article
The text of art. 167 co. 3, as amended, states overload bands that do not match the ones printed in the points table annexed to art. 126-bis, which stayed on the earlier bands. We render both scales as written.
- Bands in the article's own text
- 5%
- ·15%
- ·25%
- ·> 25%
For the article's own text our data records the bands, not a verbatim transcription: we print the quotation where we hold one and never invent one where we do not.
CdS art. 167 co. 3
- Bands in the points table
- 10%
- ·20%
- ·30%
- ·> 30%
«Commi 3, 5 e 6, con riferimento a: a) eccedenza non superiore al 10 per cento; b) eccedenza non superiore al 20 per cento; c) eccedenza non superiore al 30 per cento; d) eccedenza superiore al 30 per cento»
Tabella allegata all'art. 126-bis
For the article's own bands we assert NO points value: the table is built on a scale the article no longer uses, and mapping one onto the other would be our invention. Referred to the reviewer.
Open anomaly
Three rows with a leading minus
In the official table the art. 173 rows are printed with a leading minus, while almost every other row of the same table is an unsigned positive. We use the magnitudes and disclose the anomaly: we do not silently correct it, and we do not claim to know which reading is right.
−8 · −5 · −10
Finding your row
What this tool does, and the one thing it cannot do
It works on deductions and recovery: what a violation costs from the annexed table, how the cap behaves when several are established at once, and what the recovery mechanisms restore. It starts from the allocation of 20 points the statute gives a new licence.
It cannot read your balance. Nobody outside the Italian register can — the balance is held by the Motorizzazione and shown through the Portale dell'Automobilista, the IO app or the Motorizzazione helpline, each of which requires you to identify yourself. Any site that offers to look up your points from a plate number is offering something it does not have.
So the honest use of this tool is planning and checking: comparing what a notice says was deducted against what the table provides, and understanding what a second or third violation would do.
The figures
How the cap interacts with everything else
Where several violations are established at the same time, the total deduction is capped at 15 points — unless suspension or revocation is ordered for the violation, in which case the cap does not apply at all and the full deduction stands.
Newly qualified drivers sit on top of that. Within 3 years of a first category-B-or-higher licence, the table's values are doubled — a rule that lives in the closing note beneath the table rather than in art. 126-bis itself. The same note provides the opposite direction too: a year inside that window without a deduction-bearing violation earns 1 point, up to 3 points. The note ties that credit to the general clean-period regime without stating how the two interact numerically, and we do not infer an interaction the text does not give.
A separate escalation applies to suspension DURATION rather than to points. Art. 218-bis increases the length of an accessory suspension by a third on a first violation within 3 years of a category-B licence, and doubles it for later ones — with the window extending to 5 years where a violation in the first period itself carried a suspension longer than 3 months. Points doubling and suspension escalation are two independent regimes that share a trigger and are never one rule.
How it works
Recovery, in the order it actually happens
Courses restore points on completion of an examination, not on attendance: 6 points for the standard course, 9 points for the professional one. They are the fast route and the only one available to a driver who cannot afford to wait out a clean period.
Time restores more. 2 years without any deduction-bearing violation returns the balance to 20 points, and a holder already there accrues 2 points for each 2-year clean period up to 10 points — the derived ceiling of 30 points that the statute never states as a figure.
And at the floor the mechanism stops being about points: art. 126-bis co. 6 requires the technical fitness examination under art. 128, with suspension for an indefinite period if the holder does not comply within 30 days of notification.
The deduction on your notice may not match the table row you expect
Tabella annexed to CdS art. 126-bis — 97 point-bearing rows
In detail
How a deduction reaches your record, and how you learn about it
A deduction is not applied by the officer at the roadside. The enforcement body communicates the violation to the licence register once the position is settled, and the register applies whatever the annexed table provides for the article charged. That is why a notice can be paid and the points appear afterwards, and why the balance you check today may not yet reflect a notice you paid last week.
Where the driver was not identified at the roadside — a camera detection, an unattended vehicle — the register cannot deduct from anyone until it knows who was driving. That is the gap art. 126-bis co. 2 closes: the owner must supply the driver's personal and licence details within the period that comma sets, and failing to do so without a documented reason is a separate offence with its own corridor. Hire companies comply as a matter of routine, which is why the points from an Italian holiday can follow a driver home even when the money was settled by the rental firm.
For a driver who holds an Italian licence the practical consequence is simple: check the balance at the register rather than inferring it from your own arithmetic, because what the register did is the fact, and what the table says it should have done is what this tool models.
A deduction and a suspension are different consequences of one event
CdS art. 126-bis co. 1-bis · art. 218
Draft in progress: the long-form text of this page is still being written.
Next step
Start from the number on your notice
The calculator shows the art. 345 reduction step by step, then the band, then the payable figure and the deadlines.