The Council of State gives the government two months to introduce the technical control of two-wheelers

The Council of State has given the government two months, from Thursday June 1, to introduce technical control for motorized two-wheelers, in accordance with a provision imposed at European level but never put into practice by France. The Minister Delegate for Transport, Clément Beaune, reacted immediately, saying in a press release that the government would apply “of course the decision of the Council of State” and that he himself would specify “in the next few days the calendar and the methods of the technical control”.

In July 2022, the government had repealed the decree of August 9, 2021 which introduced the obligation to carry out a technical inspection on two-wheelers over 125 cm3, from the beginning of the year 2023. At the end of October, the Council of State had announced to reinstate the technical control two-wheelers. “The decision taken by the government on July 25, to reverse the application of technical control to ‘two-wheelers’ (…) is illegal”had estimated the highest administrative court in a press release.

A few weeks later, hundreds of bikers marched in several cities in France – including Lille, Nantes, Toulouse and Rennes – to express their opposition to the introduction of this technical control.