From April 1, the insurance sticker is no longer compulsory in France. The decree signing the end of the insurance sticker on windshields was validated in December for implementation at the beginning of April 2024.
After 4 months of waiting between the signing of the decree in December and its entry into application, it is now done. You no longer have to display the green sticker on your windshield since April 1, 2024.
Announced as a government wish from 2022, the removal of the green sticker had to wait for the implementing decree to pass before we could really celebrate it. Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, confirmed this on the X network last December 7. It took almost two years for the executive to complete this dematerialization project.
The disappearance of the paper sticker to be displayed on the windshield does not mean that vehicles without insurance will no longer be checked. All this will be digitalized and automated checks will be able to multiply the number of offending cars.
A deletion from April 2024
The measure just came into effect on April 1, 2024, and it’s no joke. Hoping that you have escaped the fines over the last few months, you now no longer risk anything by forgetting to change your sticker.
Which suits the writer of this article… who systematically forgets to change her sticker which has expired for six months. Suffice it to say that this announcement is particularly appreciated by all the airheads, procrastinators and other lazy people.
What happens to the controls?
Law enforcement will be able to query an updated file in real time to verify that the vehicle is correctly insured. Insurance companies must register new contracts within a maximum of 72 hours following subscription. During checks, the police generally already have access to this information, but this did not prevent certain officers from fining vehicles which did not display their sticker correctly.
This will also make it possible in the future to carry out much broader checks using automated radars. The automated license plate reading system (ALPR) could in particular integrate this functionality. Which is not the case currently.
When will the same thing happen for the Crit’ Air sticker and that of the technical inspection?
As long as it frees the windshield of elements which are only useful in the event of control by the police and to avoid unnecessary impressions, the government should push the thinking even further. Two other stickers will still clutter the windshield for nothing:
- Technical control
- The Crit Air sticker for residents of future EPZs
Accuracy update: Display of the technical inspection sticker is not mandatory. In the event of an inspection by the police, you just need to be able to justify the technical inspection. If officers check parked vehicles, you could be fined for not having the sticker. Finally, as the centers generally affix the CT sticker themselves, many will not remove it afterwards.
Two-wheelers are starting to run out of space to display all these useless stickers. The government has already tackled the dematerialized driving license, but unfortunately has not yet commented on these two elements. We can easily imagine that the subject is still on the table.
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