The Ministry of the Economy has just confirmed the latest announcements relating to motorists and compulsory documents for vehicle circulation in France. From April 1, 2024, the green sticker will no longer need to appear on the windshield.
Last summer, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin spoke at the end of an Interministerial Road Safety Committee (CISR) to announce the end of the green sticker on vehicle windshields in 2024. “Everything will now be recorded by insurance companies in a file”he specified, satisfying the insurance companies who were demanding an end to the edition of this sticker with the creation, in 2016, of a insured vehicle file (FVA) to which police and gendarmes have had access for four years now.
Against all expectations, it is not Gérald Darmanin whose resignation has just been refused by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron who confirmed the news this week on social networks, but Bruno Le Maire. The Minister of the Economy welcomed the removal of the green sticker from April 1, 2024. “No more fines because it’s not displayed on the windshield. No more lengthy paperwork”, he posted on Otherwise the driver must pay a fine of 35 euroseven if it is covered.
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An environmental cost called into question
Two days later, the government website made it known that “the decree relating to the abolition of the automobile green card” had been “published in the Official Journal”. In other words, it is confirmation that it is not an April Fool’s joke… We are talking about a “important progress in simplifying the administrative life of the French”which the government is striving to do by increasing announcements and actions, such as the automatic payment of social benefits in particular.
What’s more, Bruno Le Maire and the website of the Ministry of the Economy point out that, until now, proof of insurance was a document “renewed and sent every year by insurers” and he understood “an insurance certificate as well as a certificate (the “green butterfly”) affixed to the windshield of the vehicle”. And so that the control by law enforcement via a dematerialized file would make it possible to achieve CO2 savings. If “the physical nature of these documents presented disadvantages, such as the risk of fines by the police if you forget to renew the green butterfly on the windshield”their edition and sending represented no less than 1,200 tonnes of CO2 per year. In any case, this is what is presented as the “ecological cost of printing and mailing green cards”.
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