The green sticker is over! If your insurer has ever sent you one, know that it is no longer an obligation to put it on your windshield as of Monday April 1, 2024. Logically, your insurer must have sent you a memo containing the essential information , keep as a precaution. Because the insurance certificate is no longer obligatory when you travel. Here is all you need to know.
Car insurance: what is still mandatory?
Do you drive a car or two-wheeler? You no longer have to stick a green sticker, as of April 1, 2024, or keep your insurance certificate in the event of a police check.
However, be careful: be insured at least one-third remains mandatory for vehicles registered.
From now on, in the event of a roadside check, the police or gendarmerie will directly query the file listing all insured vehicles to verify that you are in compliance. Since March 12, each driver can check their situation in the FVA insured vehicle file, by entering their registration and registration number on the website www.fva-assurance.fr. The interministerial road safety delegation welcomed in December that a reliable file replaced the falsifiable paper system.
What precaution should you take if you change insurer?
In the event of a new insurance contract, where it will take 72 hours to update the file, the driver must present an insured vehicle Memo if it is checked. This document will be provided by the insurer, in digital or printed version.
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Why do the green card and sticker disappear?
The government cites three objectives: to simplify the lives of motorists, to fight against fraud and to reduce CO2 emissions, according to the Ministers of the Economy, the Interior and Justice in a press release dated December 11, when the decree was published.
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Concretely, the sticker placed on the windshield, compulsory since 1986, and the insurance certificate are replaced by an entry in the file of insured vehicles, which can be consulted by the police and gendarmes.
The physical nature of these documents presented disadvantages, such as for example the risk of verbalization by the police (35 euros, Editor’s note) in the event of forgetting to renew the green butterfly on the windshield, even though the driver is well insured, according to the government.
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For the Minister of the Interior Grald Darmanin, the removal of the sticker and the insurance card will allow the police to better fight against documentary fraud and the non-insurance of vehicles during checks, he said. reported on December 11. Around 680,000 vehicles would be traveling without insurance, according to the National Interministerial Road Safety Observatory. In 2022, 229 people died in an accident involving an uninsured vehicle.
Furthermore, the government highlights the ecological cost of printing and sending green cards, which represent each year, according to it, 1,200 tonnes of CO2 and 50 million paper documents. For non-EU countries, the green card remains obligatory, the Interministerial Road Safety Delegation told AFP.
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What to remember from the end of the green sticker
Motorists and motorcyclists will no longer need a green sticker or insurance certificate from April 1, with law enforcement having access to a digital file, but being insured remains mandatory.
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