The rumor that a new regulation would establish an annual technical control from 2025 for vehicles over 10 years old has circulated abundantly in recent months. According to this information, this measure was considered to improve road safety and limit pollution, in response in particular to a German study reporting a large number of defective vehicles in circulation.
However, this assertion was categorically denied by several official and professional sources in the automotive sector. The Ministry of Ecological Transition formally indicated that no project for the development of French regulations concerning an annual technical control was on the agenda. Likewise, the professional auto security and security networks have confirmed that no new regulations would be introduced in 2025 and that there would be no major modifications of the procedures or criteria for assessing technical control. Mobilians, professional organization of the automotive sector, also specified that no regulatory modification was provided for date.
In conclusion, despite the significant dissemination of this rumor in the media and on social networks, no new regulations providing for a compulsory annual technical control for old vehicles is currently planned for 2025.
If such a measure happened, how many vehicles would be affected?
Such a measure could have potentially concerned a very large number of vehicles. Indeed, in 2023, around 22 million vehicles were subject to technical control in France. Knowing that the average age of the French car fleet now exceeds ten years, regulations imposing an annual technical control for vehicles over ten years could have received a significant part of these 22 million vehicles. However, according to other estimates, the precise number of vehicles affected by such a measure would be pretty close to the eight million. Be that as it may, the total number of vehicles potentially concerned would have been very high given the general aging of the French fleet.
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