Tests to obtain the professional aptitude card accrediting the initial qualification to drive vehicles intended for the transport of goods or passengers by road (CAP).
General information
- Regional ministry
- Consejeria De Fomento, Vivienda, Ordenacion Del Territorio Y Medio Ambiente
- Governing board
- Direc. General De Transportes Y Comunicaciones (DIR3: A06004055)
- Classification
- Certificates
- Subject(s)
- Public Works, traffic and transport
- Starting way
- Interested
- Target
- Citizens
- Subject to fees
- Yes
- Fees
- Languages in which the procedure can be completed
- Spanish
- Allow power of attorney
- Yes
- Links to web pages with specific information
- Type
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3035 Tasa de expedición de tarjeta de aptitud profesional de conductor. 23,49 €. |
No links are included
Requirements
- Requirements
- Official application form duly completed and payment of a fee in accordance with the provisions of Cantabria Law 9/1992, of 18 December, on Public fees and Prices, the amount of which will be determined in the regulations for the corresponding year.
- Successful passing, in an authorised centre, of the corresponding theoretical and practical training course, on the date that each of the deadlines for submitting applications provided for in the Third Basis of the call resolution ends, said course must have been completed within the year prior to the date of the exam, in accordance with the provisions of Article 16 of Royal Decree 284/2021, of 20 April.
- Payment of fees for participation rights in CAP tests by means of a payment document duly validated by a collaborating bank.
Deadlines and submission
- Deadline for submission
Indicated in the annual call made in December of each year by which the bases are established and the tests are called to obtain the certificate of professional aptitude accrediting the initial qualification for the driving of vehicles intended for the transport of goods or passengers by road, to be held in the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.
- Submission deadline start date
- 13/10/2025
- Submission deadline end date
- 31/10/2025
- Periodicity
- Subject to call
- Means of submission
- Online and in person
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- Online submission
- At the General Electronic Registry
- This procedure admits electronic submission in its specific application
- Art. 14. 2 of the Law 39/2015, of 1 October, of the Common Administrative Procedure of the Public Administrations, establishes the obligatory nature of the electronic management for certain subjects as, for example, a) The juridical persons, b) Entities without legal personality, c) Those who carry out a professional activity for which compulsory membership is required, for the procedures and actions they carry out with the Public Administrations in the exercise of said professional activity. In any case, within this group, notaries and property and mercantile registrars shall be included. d) Those who represent an interested party who is obliged to relate electronically with the Administration, e) The employees of the Public Administrations for the procedures and actions that they carry out with them due to their condition of public employee, in the form in which it is determined by regulation by each Administration.
- Place(s) for in-person submission
Electronically. Application through the CAP application, electronically through the website of the Ministry of Public Works www.fomento.es, following the following steps:
Electronic Office-New Procedure-Land Transport-Management of Professional Driver Training (CAP)-Electronic Processing-StartAnd exceptionally in person: At the Registration Assistance Office of the Government of Cantabria or at any of the established places referred to in Article 134 of Law of Cantabria 5/2018, of 22 November, on the Legal Regime of the Government, Administration and Institutional Public Sector of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.
If the application is sent by post, it must be submitted in an open envelope so that the name of the office and the date, place, hour and minute of its admission by the postal staff are clearly stated at the head of the first page of the document, in accordance with the provisions of Article 31 of Royal Decree 1829/1999. of 3 December, which approves the Regulation regulating the provision of postal services insofar as it does not conflict with Law 43/2010, of 30 December, on the universal postal service, on the rights of users and the postal market. Electronically: Through the Common Electronic Registry of the Administration of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria at the electronic address "sede.cantabria.es".
Required documentation
Processing and resolution
- Instructor board
- Operation, Conservation and Intermodality Unit of the Directorate-General for Transport and Communications.
- Attributive rule
Royal Decree 284/2021, of 20 April, regulating the initial qualification and continuous training of drivers of certain vehicles intended for road transport and amending the Regulations of the Law on Land Transport Regulation, approved by Royal Decree 1211/1990, of 28 September.
- Reports or opinions
- No reports or opinions are required
- Resolution entity
- Minister of Development, Housing, Territorial Planning and the Environment.
- Attributive rule
Law of Cantabria 5/2018, of 22 November, on the Legal Regime of the Government, the Administration and the Institutional Public Sector of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.
- Maximum deadline for decision
- 3 Months
- Average deadline for decision
- 2 Months
- Effects of the administrative silence or inactivity of the Administration
- Initiation by request:
- Negative
- Does it put an end to the administrative procedure?
- No
- Subject to participation of certification partner entities
- No
- Certification Partner Entities
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Currently, there are no certification partner entities authorized to act in this procedure.
Appeals
- Type
Appeal.
- Board
Minister of Development, Housing, Territorial Planning and the Environment.
- Deadline
- 1 month.
Regulations
- Regulation applied
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- Real Decreto 284/2021, de 20 de abril por el que se regula la cualificación inicial y la formación continua de los conductores de determinados vehículos destinados al transporte por carretera y por el que se modifica el Reglamento de la Ley de Ordenación de Transportes Terrestres, aprobado por el Real Decreto 1211/1990, de 28 de septiembre.
Provide additional documentation
Do you need help?
The 012 General Telephone Information Service will be available 24 hours a day, every day of the year, according to the following timetable:
- Personal telephone attention by means of information agents, from 9:00 to 21:00 hours from Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays.
Mechanised attention, via voicemail, during other hours and on public holidays. - Incoming calls to the mailbox will be recorded and then, from the General Information Telephone 012, a response call will be made to the citizen to resolve his or her request for information.
- For telephone calls from outside the Autonomous Community of Cantabria you can dial 942 395 563 (from abroad +34 942 395 563); if you are calling from Cantabria, you can dial 942 395 562.
- This service is only available in Spanish.

