The motorcycle technical inspection is doing pschiiit again!
While the association breathes attacks in front of the Council of State the "presidential" slackening of the decree that provided for the application of technical inspection motorbikes, scooters and quadricyles with motor from 2023, the Minister of Transport unveils in the show "Appoline Matin" its outright deletion in its original format (see below)!.
"the objective is to do better and simpler," says Jean-Baptiste Djebarri, who wants to move out of "administrative logic" and proceed "differently" in favour of the environment and road safety. Instead, the Minister wishes to develop a module dedicated to safety during driving licences and to encourage electric transition among scooter users.
No "administrative" motorcycle technical inspection
Faced with the surprise of our colleague from RMC in the face of this umpteenth change of heart, Jean-Baptiste Djebarri swallows his hat to make things clear: "there will be no technical inspection as envisaged, that is to say the administrative technical inspection: you go to a place and you pay 50 euros and we make a small stamp. That will not exist. But we will answer the fundamental questions which are important questions".
In plain language: already 13 years after our article recounting the abandonment of the technical inspection pronounced in 2008 by the former prime Minister of the time, François Fillon, the motorcycle technical inspection is again "pschiiit"! It should be recalled that the National Assembly and the Senate also voted against it six years ago, partly on the grounds of the interested lobbying of its supporters such as the Dekra and SITA groups.
The application of technical inspection to motorcycles and scooters through Decree No. 2021-1062 is in fact in line with a six-year old European Directive (2014 / 45 / EU), which provides that "L-category vehicles with a cylinder capacity exceeding 125 cc shall be subject to technical inspection as from 1 January 2022, unless alternative road safety measures have been put in place in the light of the relevant statistics in this field".
Understand: Europe imposes roadworthiness tests on motorbikes and scooters on all its Member States, although the disaster associated with a failure is extremely low for two-wheelers, with the exception of those countries that can justify progress in reducing accidents.? And it is precisely in this direction that the Ministry of Transport tends to move in order to avoid the cutting off of technical inspection: this is something to be welcomed by biker associations such as the FFMC!
A fall in favour of bikers, but not just
Motorcyclists and scooterists will not be the only ones to celebrate this withdrawal: as mentioned earlier, the technical inspection "as intended"-in the words used-was also aimed at unlicensed cars (accessible with an AM licence), whose owners have neither the same profiles nor the same interests. The decree of 9 August also included three-wheelers such as the popular Piaggio MP3, as well as the Can-Am Spyder and Harley trikes.
So many "tripodes" accessible without the A (motorcycle) licence by drivers holding a B licence (car) after 7 hours of training, if necessary: a bunch of voters from all walks of life-often city dwellers for 3-wheel scooters-who are potentially not happy in the next elections!. The next FFMC demonstrations against technical control would therefore not only have brought together "black jackets", as the mainstream media insistently suggest.
The Minister of Transport justifies this approach by a comparison in favour of motorcycles: "we have scooters today, compared to motorcycles, when we look at it pollutes almost more, and it makes noise especially in the city," he explains. Bikers will be thrilled, ecolos and scooterists much less! Especially owners of maxi-scoot 'over 10,000 €duly certified Euro5...
In the meantime, the Minister of Transport has also-and no surprise-attracted indignant reactions, especially from professionals in the technical control sector on RMC's Twitter: Rodolphe Benchétrit thus evokes "hallucinating, even insulting remarks for a profession that has done so much for road safety. I invite @ Djebbari _ JB to visit one of our centers to understand what is going on there". I am inviting @ Djebbari _ JB to visit one of our centers to find out what is going on there. "I am inviting @ Djebbari _ JB to visit one of our centers and find out what is going on there." Atmosphere...
Procedure for the technical inspection of motorcycles "as envisaged"
From 1 January 2023, two- or three-wheel motor vehicles and motor quadricycles shall be subject to:
- D'un contrôle technique dans les six mois précédant l'expiration d'un délai de quatre ans à compter de la date de leur première mise en circulation
- Postérieurement à ce contrôle, d'un contrôle technique périodique, renouvelé tous les deux ans
- Avant toute mutation intervenant au-delà du délai de quatre ans prévu au 1° ci-dessus, d'un contrôle technique, dont sont toutefois dispensés les véhicules ayant subi un contrôle technique dans les six mois précédant la date de demande d'établissement du nouveau certificat d'immatriculation
- Pour les véhicules de collection, le délai entre deux contrôles techniques est porté à cinq ans à l'exception des cas de mutation
