> My guess here is that this is not treatment as sic but assessment and that if you’re not appealing for your licence back you could just skip it. Perhaps a German could comment?

German here, yep, exactly that.

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nandomrumber an hour ago | parent [-]

Absurd.

Who loses their license for a parking infringement and doesn’t go through the motions of getting it back.

Like anyone thinks: yeah, fair enough, I’m such an irredeemable reprobate I think I’ll just walk from now on.

	▲	rsynnott 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The point is that there should be a mechanism to prevent such arseholes from getting it back if it seems likely that they'll continue their behaviour. This is one such mechanism.