The highest administrative court ruled on Monday that the government’s decision to repeal the decree implementing technical control for two-wheelers was “illegal”.
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It is a snub for the government. The Council of State announced to reinstate the technical control of two-wheelers, Monday, October 31. “The decision taken by the government on July 25, to reverse the application of technical control to ‘two-wheelers’ (…) is illegal”estimated the highest administrative court in a press release.
This summer, the government repealed the decree of August 9, 2021 which introduced the obligation to carry out a technical inspection on all two-wheelers over 125 cm3 from the beginning of 2023.
The decree applied a 2014 European directive which required member states to create this new technical inspection before January 1, 2022. But the day after its publication, Emmanuel Macron had assured that it would never be applied. An adviser to the executive then let it be known that the Head of State believed that “it was not the time to bother the French”.
HoweverAccompanied by environmental NGOs in May, the Council of State had demanded that the measure be put in place from October 2022.