Project objectives

Enhance road safety
Ensure a rigorous track of the offences to road code and transport legislation
Improve and modernize services delivered to citizens

Project features

Implementation, deployment, financing and maintenance of the Moroccan electronic driving Licences and vehicles registration cards management system
A large-scale transition from paper to electronic card. The project is set up to issue over 13 million cards
Roll-out started in august 2007 and is to be achieved by 2012

The project milestones

Januray 2007: Morocco chooses the consortium made of M2M Group and Sagem Sécurité and in which intervenes a large investment bank, ATTIJARI Capital Risk. Their proposal was considered better on both technical and financial levels” raises the Press Release published on January 26, 2007 by the Moroccan ministry of equipment and transport. “On the technical level, the system implementation strategies are differentiated by a higher level of commitments and quality in terms of the existing documents replacement strategy and the global equipment of the registration centers, the personalization center, the central site and the back-up center, enhanced by the large multi-applicative openings offered by the system and which have for main goal to modernize public services and to create synergies between the sector operators: road transport firms, insurance companies, vehicle inspection centers, vehicle maintenance providers…” underlines the same press release.

February 2007: The concession agreement is signed by the Finance minister, the transport minister and the representatives of the Franco-Moroccan consortium.

March 2007: The consortium creates a Moroccan liability concessionary company called SSIAQA CARD, held to 51% by the Moroccan shareholders. ASSIAQA CARD is charged to manage the implementation, deployment, financing and maintenance of the new management system of electronic driving Licences and vehicles registration cards. The contacless smart cards are personalized in a local Personalization Center (in Morocco) within processes that ensure the highest levels of security, both physical and logical.

August 2007: Just six months after the agreement goes into force, the registration center of Rabat delivers the first driving licenses and vehicles registration cards.

September, 2008: twelve months after the date the project goes live, the system reaches 100% deployment across all Morocco, over 63 registration centers are entirely deployed (including deployment of the global card management and issuance system, enrolment stations, integration, training and support).

November, 2008: The project reaches high momentum, and launches the Replacement Phase, marked by the opening on November 10, 2008 of the first External Agency, one of the 27 branches expected across the country. The Replacement/Renewal Phase concerns the 8 million paper documents in circulation now.

January, 2009:  500,000 electronic cards have been issued, including 210,000 vehicule registration cards and 275,000 driving license cards 3 External Agencies are fully deployed (1 in Rabat and 2 in Casablanca). Roll-out is on progress and the Renewal process is expected to be achieved by 2012.

Project future evolutions

This large scale dematerialization project is set up to issue over 13 million cards. By opting for multi-applicative contactless smart cards, the Moroccan Ministry for Equipment and Transport (MET) aims to develop a strong activity of value added services by leveraging the functional openings offered by this advanced multi-applicative program. Applications such as “point-record driving licence”, tracking driving offences, highway fees payment… will be developed around the driving licence card. The applications expected for the vehicle registration cards will include  payment of taxes, insurance services, vehicle inspection services, interoperability with bus, tramway...