A new decree published Tuesday in the Official Journal removed the implementation of the technical control of two-wheelers which was to be put in place at the beginning of 2023.
The decree setting up the technical control of two-wheelers, which provided for its implementation in early 2023, was removed by a new decree published on Tuesday in the Official Journal, while the Council of State demanded that the measure be put in place. in place from October 2022. The Minister Delegate for Transport, Clément Beaune, is due to receive biker associations on this subject on Tuesday, his cabinet told AFP.
The decree on the technical control of two-wheelers 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 to Member States by 1 January 2022 at the latest. The day after the publication of the decree, Emmanuel Macron had also announced that it would ultimately never be applied, the President of the Republic judging according to an adviser that “it was not the time to bother the French”.
Three NGOs – Respire, Ras le Scoot and Paris without cars – had nevertheless attacked the initial decree, asking for its cancellation and the obligation for the State “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 “as (…) it postpones beyond October 1, 2022, the entry into force of the technical control obligation” , date estimated as a reasonable time for implementation.
Opponents of technical control are awaiting, despite this decision, a new decree with alternative measures on road safety, pollution and noise, promised in November 2021 by the former Minister of Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, who had assured that such decree would make it possible to obtain an exemption from the European obligation. For their part, environmental associations called on the government when it was appointed to impose technical control from October 1 and not to give in to the “biker lobby”.