The technical inspection of two-wheelers will be gradually implemented from April 2024

2023-10-24 09:55:24

There is now a precise timetable. The technical inspection of two-wheelers will be gradually implemented from April 2024. At the beginning of June, the Council of State gave the government two months to introduce this measure, in accordance with a 2014 European obligation never applied in France.

This technical inspection will be implemented staggered over time to avoid a “bottleneck” in the approved inspection centers. The first to have to do this from April and before mid-August or the end of 2024 depending on the date of entry into circulation of the vehicles, will be vehicles registered before January 1, 2017. The first control of category L vehicles registered between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2019 must be carried out in 2025, that of vehicles registered between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021 in 2026, according to the decree.

For those registered after January 1, 2022, the first check must be carried out “within six months preceding the expiration of a period of four years from the date of their first entry into circulation” then every two years.

Four million two-wheelers affected

In total, four million two-wheelers should be affected by this new measure for which it will be necessary to spend “around fifty euros”, according to the Minister for Transport. All category L vehicles including 50 cc scooters and motorcycles will be affected. Two-wheelers with a size of less than 125 cm3 “have a high accident rate and can also be the source of significant air or noise pollution in the city,” the ministry indicated. However, this system should exclude “motorcycles for sports use” which are not authorized on public roads.

Concretely, “all fields of control” such as safety, atmospheric and noise pollution or even the maximum speed will be observed but in a “strongly simplified” manner compared to cars. The number of checkpoints should be divided by four.

At the same time, the government has just published the results of the public consultation on the draft decree on the technical inspection of motorized two-wheelers. This consultation collected no less than 16,000 opinions. A record rarely reached, proof of the mobilization of bikers and motorized two-wheel users on this sensitive subject. With the publication of the results, the ministry takes note of these comments but “most of the objections raised by the bikers have been dismissed”, according to the Federation of Angry Bikers.