The IL is presenting a bill this Friday to end the “useless obligation” of putting the auto insurance seal on the glass of the vehicle, as it makes no sense to pay a fine for the lack of this affixed plate.
In a conversation with the Lusa bureau, IL deputy Carlos Guimarães Pinto explained the purpose of this diploma that has entered parliament, which according to the liberal aims to “simply remove another useless obligation that exists” in the law.
“Right now there is an additional obligation to the car insurance obligation, which we do not question, which is to put the car insurance sticker on the windshield. If a person is stopped in a stop operation and has a car insurance and a way to prove that you have it, but you don’t have the vignette on the windscreen, you pay a fine”he explained.
For liberals, this “it makes little sense because the most important thing is that the person is insured on the car” and if you can prove you have one, “there’s no point in paying a fine just because the sticker isn’t on the windshield”.
“It doesn’t add any value, it doesn’t give any security to other drivers, it’s just a useless obligation that results in fines for some people because they forgot or didn’t put the new vignette on when the new car insurance came in.”criticized.
Asked about the expectation of this bill being passed in parliament, Carlos Guimarães Pinto said he wanted to believe that “no party will have the courage to refuse to have this removed from the legislation”.
“But given that we’ve had experiences in the past where useless legislation was also enforced without really understanding why, I don’t want to be too optimistic, but rationality would say this should be a consensual thing”he noticed.
According to the IL deputy, the party will add this bill to a new package of uncomplicated measures that it plans to schedule for May.
In the specific case of the bill being tabled today, the intention of the Liberals is to repeal number two of the article on the guarantee of civil liability and the registration status of the vehicle with regard to compulsory insurance for the statutory motor vehicle liability.
In its current wording, this number confirms that the IL wants to revoke that “it constitutes an administrative offense punishable by a fine of (euro) 250 to (euro) 1250, the movement of the vehicle without the sign referred to in Article 30, whereby this amounts shall be reduced by half if the certificate of inspection proves the existence of the corresponding compulsory motor third-party liability insurance”.
Source: DN
