The implementation of the technical inspection of two wheels begins in April 2024. It will be gradual and will therefore not initially concern everyone. We’ll explain it to you.
This time it’s the right one. France will set up the compulsory technical inspection for two wheels in 2024. Despite the cancellation of the project in 2022, the country is forced to bring it back on the table following an injunction from the Council of State. It finally complies with the European directive dating from 2014, after 10 years of procrastination. A decree published in official newspaper specifies the conditions for implementing technical controland of course effective date.
If the measure took so long to come to fruition, it is because it arouses strong opposition among the different user organizations, French Federation of Angry Bikers (FFMC) in the lead. Other associations, however, such as Breathe, Get rid of the Scoot Or Paris without a car, on the contrary wanted to accelerate the arrival of the device. They were the ones who ultimately won their case. Let’s see how all this will play out in practice.
Mandatory technical inspection of two wheels will be implemented gradually in 2024
The vehicles concerned are those of category L, i.e. two wheels, three wheels and quadricycles. The first to have to pass a technical inspection are those registered before 2017. The decree specifies: “for vehicles put into circulation before January 1, 2017 and whose anniversary date of first entry into circulation is before April 15, this inspection is to be carried out, at the latest, within four months from the April 15, 2024“.
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Subsequently, the date of compulsory technical inspection depends on the date of registration :
- Between 2017 and end of 2019: control in 2025.
- Between 2020 and end of 2021 : control in 2026.
- Between 2022 and the entry into force of the measure on April 15, 2024 : control “in the six months preceding the expiration of a period of four years from the date of [sa] first entry into service”, as indicated in the Highway Code.
According to the Minister for Transport Clément Beaune, the technical inspection should cost “around 50 euros”.
Source : Le Figaro
