The Government plans to pass a light technical control to two-wheeled vehicles, for less than fifty euros, as of June 2023, according to a government note consulted this Wednesday by AFP.
According to this note sent on November 22 to the regional equipment directorates (DREAL), in charge of starting this control, the Ministry of Transport plans to start the technical control of two-wheeled vehicles “by June 2023”.
It would be “a simplified technical check with a significant reduction of checkpoints” compared to that of cars, and “a progressive implementation in 2 stages with a visual check at the beginning” and then “a more substantial check involving the taking of some measures using dedicated equipment (example: pollutant emissions)”.
A ministry spokeswoman stressed on Wednesday that a consultation on the various parameters was “ongoing” and that “nothing” was “stabilized at this stage.” At the end of October, the Council of State restored the implementation of this technical control imposed by the European Union to protect the safety of motorcyclists but also the environment, and which is already applied in many countries.
the territorial network
The application of this measure was scheduled for early 2023 before it was canceled by the government. Since then, the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, has met with environmental associations that demanded the application of the measure, but also with motorcyclist associations, which oppose this control, and technical control networks.
According to the note, the Government “works together with the technical control federations” so that its territorial network “is sufficiently dense and that users do not have to travel too many distances”, and so that “the price of technical controls is as low as possible (normally it should be less than 50 euros)”.
A reflection is also underway to “stagger in time the transition to technical control of the fleet of category L vehicles”, that is, cars without license plates, “in particular to avoid a peak of activity in technical control centers followed by of a period of low activity”.
Clément Beaune had pointed out at the beginning of November that European regulations left “significant room for manoeuvre” for governments, evoking control “as little sanctioning as possible”.
Source: BFM TV
