What is the minimum driving license required to drive a bus approved for 20 seats (including the driver's) that is towing a trailer whose maximum authorized mass (MAM) is 650 kg?

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The class D license authorizes driving automobiles intended for the transport of persons designed and built to carry more than 8 passengers in addition to the driver, with no upper limit on seats. Since the bus has capacity for 20 people in total, it exceeds the maximum limit of the D1 (which allows up to 16 passengers plus the driver, that is, 17 seats in total and up to 8 meters in length). Therefore, the D license is needed. In addition, the class D license allows coupling a trailer whose maximum authorized mass (MAM) does not exceed 750 kg (light trailer). Since the towed trailer weighs 650 kg MAM, it is considered light and does not require the additional D+E authorization, which would be necessary only with a trailer of more than 750 kg. The D1+E is not valid either, because its towing vehicle would have to be of class D1.

What is the minimum driving license required to drive a bus approved for 20 seats (including the driver's) that is towing a trailer whose maximum authorized mass (MAM) is 650 kg?

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