The decree that implemented the technical control of two-wheeled vehicles, which provided for its implementation at the beginning of 2023, was eliminated by a new decree published this Tuesday in the Official Gazette, while the Council of State demanded that the measure. from October 2022.
The Deputy Minister for Transport, Clément Beaune, will receive cycling associations on this issue on Tuesday, his cabinet told AFP.
The decree on the technical control of two-wheeled vehicles has been the subject of controversy since its publication in August 2021. It introduced the measure in stages and from the beginning of 2023, while the European Union had decided in 2014 to impose it on Member States no later than January 1, 2022.
“There is no time to bother the French”
The day after the publication of the decree, Emmanuel Macron had also announced that it would never finally be applied, judging the President of the Republic according to an adviser that “it was not the time to bother the French”.
However, three NGOs – Breathe, Ras le Scoot and Paris without cars – had attacked the initial decree, calling for its annulment and the State’s obligation to “guarantee the implementation of technical control (…) as soon as possible”, emphasizing that Such a measure would reduce the mortality of motorcyclists, as well as noise and atmospheric pollution.
The Council of State agreed with them last May and suspended the text “since (…) it postpones beyond October 1, 2022, the entry into force of the obligation of technical control”, a date estimated as a reasonable time for its implementation.
Opponents of technical control expect, despite this decision, a new decree with alternative measures on road safety, pollution and noise, promised in November 2021 by former Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, who had assured that such a decree would make it possible to obtain an exemption from the European obligation.
For their part, the environmental associations called on the government when it was appointed to impose technical control as of October 1 and not give in to the “biker lobby.”
Source: BFM TV
