Horacio Rodriguez Larreta announced that he will present in the Buenos Aires Legislature a Bill to extend the validity of the Vehicle Technical Verification (VTV) procedure. First of all, The exemption from the procedure for new cars will be extended for another year, going from three to four years. Besides, the validity of the VTV will be extended, which will go from one to two years for vehicles less than eight years old.
With the extension of one more year in the VTV exemption for new cars, it means that those people who buy a 0Km in 2023 will only do the first verification in 2027.
The project, prepared by the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works and legislators from the Juntos por el Cambio interblock as Roberto Garcia Moritan, Diego Garcia Vilas y Facundo del Gaiso, promotes the extension of the validity of the VTV, which will go from one to two years for cars less than eight years old. The only one exception It will be for those vehicles that are eight years old or reach 60 thousand kilometers. In this case, the vehicle control is annual.
For older adults and people with disabilities, who meet certain income requirements and vehicle characteristics, the VTV will be free, indicates the text that will enter the Legislature in the next few hours and that was announced by the head of the Buenos Aires government accompanied by the Secretary of Public Affairs, Waldo Wolff; and the Chief of Staff of the Secretary of Transportation and Public Works, Eugenia Wehbe.
According to Rodríguez Larreta at the press conference, with these changes, in the first eight years of a new car, it will go from doing VTV six times to doing it only three. Currently, a shot of that age made its first verification at the age of three and continued to do so annually until the age of eight. If this law is approved, he will do his first VTV at the age of four, another at six and the third at eight. At today’s values, instead of spending $42,000 on six verifications, they are going to spend $21,000 over eight years.
From the Buenos Aires Government they indicate that the bill was prepared based on the information collected: only 14.7% of the cars between four and seven years old do not satisfactorily pass the verification. From the eighth year on, the percentage of rejected vehicles doubles, rising to 30.6%.
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