While the Council of State had given the government two months to adopt the decree setting up the technical control for motorized two-wheelers (CT2R), in accordance with a European obligation that France has still not applied, a schedule has just been communicated. The Minister Delegate for Transport announced this Saturday on Brut that technical inspection would become compulsory from “early 2024” for “the oldest vehicles, that is to say those which date from before the 1st January 2017”. With the deadline “every five years for the first time, and then every three years”, he added.
An expected measure, when the minister had already affirmed, in a press release, that the government would apply “of course the decision of the Council of State” and that he himself would specify “in the coming days the timetable and the methods of the technical control”. “All two-wheelers are concerned”, whether they are models of less or more than 125 cm3, specifies Clément Beaune.
As for the cost of this technical control, which he wishes to be as fair as possible for the owners of two-wheelers, he asked that it be reduced to “about fifty euros”. “It is in discussion with the technical centers to put pressure and lower the price as much as possible”, continues the minister. In addition, he proposes to support “those who have an old two-wheeled vehicle (…) with a conversion bonus”. “There will be up to 6,000 euros in aid from the start of 2024 to switch to an electric or not very polluting vehicle”.
“To make it as relevant as possible, the CT2R will focus on safety, noise reduction and emissions control, and to make it as simple and effective as possible, we are proposing to divide by four the number checkpoints in relation to the technical inspections of cars”, communicated the ministry this Saturday, explaining that if all two-wheelers were indeed concerned, “motorcycles for sports use” which do not “circulate on public roads” and “Obviously do not present the same challenges as other vehicles” were excluded. On the contrary, scooters will be subject to it, insofar as they present “a high accident rate and can also be the source of significant air or noise pollution in the city”.
The technical control of the two wheels will cost “less than 50 euros”, assures Clément Beaune
The ministry also distilled some information regarding the schedule. “In view of the incompressible deadlines necessary for the CT2R to take place in good conditions, the text submitted for public consultation provides for entry into force between January 15, 2024 and March 15, 2024.” Knowing that the exact date of entry into force will be specified according to the feedback from the public consultation, launched at the request of the Council of State until July 21, 2023 and put online this Monday on the ministry’s website www.consultations -publiques.developpement-durable.gouv.fr.
This entry into force “will be progressive according to the age of the vehicles and staggered until January 1, 2027”, and this, explains the entourage of the minister “in order not to create a bottleneck by bringing in all at once nearly four million vehicles in the system”. And to affirm: “we will also facilitate the administrative procedures to ensure a sufficient territorial network and thus guarantee that the CT2R takes place in good conditions”.
