Will technical control become compulsory every year? The information quickly went around the web and can worry many motorists.
“It’s official”, “The news has fallen” “Here is the list of models” … You have surely fallen in recent days on these publications on social networks or on websites. Technical control would become compulsory every year from 2025! This “information” is therefore sometimes sometimes sometimes sometimes sometimes sometimes even an alleged “list of models concerned”. So true or false? Linternaute.com takes stock.
It all started from an alert issued in Germany by the Tüv, an association renowned in the field of automotive quality control. Noting the worrying state of a large number of vehicles across the Rhine, the organization has simply recommended that the authorities reflect on a hardening of the technical control rules for the oldest cars. A suggestion relayed by certain German media, then distorted and wrongly presented as a measure on the point of being applied in France.
Faced with the propagation of this “fake news”, the Ministry of Spatial Planning and the Ecological Transition had even wanted to restore the truth. In a press release published on February 4 and then published by Le Figaro, he then clearly said that “no project to evolve national regulations is on the agenda to shorten the frequency of technical controls, regardless of the age of the vehicle”. You have understood, an annual technical control is not planned …
Such a reform would actually be difficult to set up, both socially and a simple practical and organizational point of view. While traffic restrictions are multiplying in large cities with the implementation of low -emission zones (ZFE), imposing annual controls would be perceived as an additional punitive measure by owners of old cars, often from the most modest households.
The 6,750 French technical control centers would simply not be able to absorb the surplus of activity generated by annual visits for all vehicles over 10 years old. Not to mention the cost that this would represent for motorists, with an average control billed € 75, to which are often added repair costs in the event of a counter-visit or even a revision upstream of the passage of the feared technical control …
So why this rumor already informed in February resurfaced at the end of March? Mystery since no new information has come since this denial. Technical control has already evolved a lot in recent years with in particular new control points and a reinforced diagnosis. If the oldly of the French car fleet (a vehicle has an average of 11.2 years) questions the state of French vehicles and the safety of users, vehicles over 10 years are well subject to a visit every two years, as provided for in the current regulations.