Technical inspection of motorized two-wheelers gradually implemented from April 2024

The technical inspection of motorized two-wheelers will be gradually implemented from April 2024 depending on the age of the vehicles, according to a decree published in the Official Journal, Tuesday October 24. The first to have to carry out the technical inspection, from April and before mid-August or the end of 2024 depending on the date of entry into circulation of the vehicles, will be those registered before January 1, 2017.

Staggering the entry into force until the end of 2026 should make it possible to avoid bottlenecks in the control centers, which will be able to benefit for one year from April from an extension of their approval if they are already authorized to carry out checks on light or heavy vehicles.

The subject arouses the anger of bikers

The first inspection 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 five years from the date of their first entry into circulation, then every three years, according to a decree also published Tuesday modifying the Highway Code.

The subject arouses the anger of bikers, who have demonstrated several times against such an obligation in recent months in several cities in France including Paris, where several hundred motorcycles paraded on June 3. The government had declared that it wanted control “as cheap and simple as possible” and estimates the number of two-wheelers affected at four million.

This decree puts an end to months of procrastination to apply a 2014 European directive. The European Commission had imposed a technical inspection in all countries of the European Union in 2014, wishing for its implementation from January 2022 for two-wheelers. of more than 125 cm3, in the name of the safety of motorcyclists but also of the environment. In August 2021, a decree provided for the start of technical inspection in January 2023 for vehicles registered before 2016, and later for others.