New cars may be exempt from first-time registration from 2023
The Vietnam Register has just submitted to the Ministry of Transport a plan to exempt new cars from the first inspection for one year from the year of manufacture. Previously, the Traffic Police Department had also made this proposal.
New cars will be exempted from registration for one year.
On the morning of December 28, a representative of the Vietnam Register said that after 6 months of impact assessment combined with research on technical factors and actual data, the Vietnam Register has compiled and submitted to the Ministry of Transport a plan to exempt the first registration for newly manufactured, assembled, and imported cars for a period of one year from the year of manufacture.
The above plan has been registered by the Vietnam Register in the 2023 legal document development program of the Ministry of Transport and is taking steps to develop a draft to supplement and amend 16/2021/TT-BGTVT in December 2022 and, if possible, can be applied in early 2023.
Previously, in May 2022, the Traffic Police Department (Ministry of Public Security) sent a document requesting the Vietnam Register to adjust some contents, most notably the proposal to exempt inspection for newly manufactured vehicles that are still under manufacturer's warranty.
The reason given by the Traffic Police Department is that imported, domestically produced and assembled vehicles have been inspected for technical safety and environmental protection before being sold on the market, so registration for new vehicles is not really necessary.
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Exempting new cars from inspection will save hundreds of billions of dong each year. (Photo: Hoang Hiep) |
"Immediately after receiving a request from the Traffic Police Department to consider exempting the first technical safety inspection for road motor vehicles still under the manufacturer's warranty period, the Registry Department established a Working Group to conduct research on the above content.
Along with that, based on the direction of the Minister of Transport at the Ministry's meeting in December 2022, after synthesizing research results from actual data, the working group of the Vietnam Register urgently assessed the impacts, impacts and tasks that need to be performed," said a representative of the Department.
According to the Vietnam Register, the results of research, synthesis and evaluation from inspection units nationwide show that: The failure rate of vehicles requiring maintenance and repair for re-inspection for this group of vehicles is very low (from 0.17-0.31%). Therefore, exemption from inspection for new vehicles is reasonable.
Regarding the study of regulations, warranty period and storage time before the product reaches consumers, the Registry Department proposes to only apply to vehicles that undergo inspection within 1 year from the year of manufacture.
Explaining this, the representative of the Registry Department said that long-term storage and storage(over 1 year - PV)will cause damage, wear and tear, and reduce technical characteristics for many car parts such as plastic, rubber, lubricants, electronic components, etc. In this case, inspection is still required before use.
The Registry also emphasized that the plan only exempts vehicles from technical and environmental inspections, but it is still necessary to establish vehicle records. During the process of establishing vehicle records, the registry will conduct identification checks and compare the vehicle's identification specifications with the database of production, assembly, and import to effectively carry out state management.
Save hundreds of billions every year
Although the first exemption from vehicle inspection may affect the revenue of motor vehicle inspection units, the Vietnam Register still considers this option to be very feasible, while saving time, effort and a lot of money for people and society.
Experts say that with the current new car market size in Vietnam of over 500,000 cars per year, if all new cars have to be inspected with the current fee of 340-610 thousand VND/car, the amount of money that people and businesses spend on new car inspection will be up to hundreds of billions of VND per year, not including time, effort and other costs.
However, when implementing the first exemption from technical safety and environmental protection inspection, it means increasing the responsibility of manufacturers, assemblers and importers.
Specifically, because there is no need to check technical safety and environmental protection, there may be situations where motor vehicles are arbitrarily changed after reaching the hands of people, leading to changes in the vehicle compared to the manufacturer's design before going to the vehicle inspection unit to establish a vehicle profile that cannot be detected in time.
Therefore, ensuring technical safety and environmental protection of motor vehicles is the primary responsibility of vehicle manufacturers, importers, vehicle owners and drivers. In addition, insurance companies must coordinate with manufacturers and vehicle owners to determine responsibilities when insurance and compensation issues arise.
According to the expected steps to be taken at the motor vehicle inspection unit according to the draft amendment and supplement to Circular 16 being drafted by the Vietnam Register, new cars registering their license plates for the first time will go through the following steps:
- Step 1:Vehicle owner brought to the inspection unit
- Step 2: The inspection unit uses the chassis number, engine number, vehicle registration certificate, certificate of technical safety and environmental protection of imported motor vehicles or a copy of the vehicle's factory quality inspection certificate to look up the vehicle's technical specifications from the direct database.
The inspection unit downloads the data and records it in the inspection database. The downloaded data is the original technical specifications of the vehicle and cannot be modified.
- Step 3: The inspection unit enters administrative information, takes actual photos of the vehicle, only checks the vehicle identification and creates a Vehicle Profile for the vehicle, prints the inspection certificate (with QR code), inspection stamp, and road use fee stamp. Does not perform technical safety and environmental protection inspection of the vehicle on the equipment at the inspection unit and does not collect inspection service fees.
- Step 4: Vehicle owners pay the certificate issuance fee and road usage fee as prescribed according to the prescribed vehicle head.
- Step 5:The inspection unit affixes inspection stamps and road use fee stamps to the vehicle and issues an inspection certificate to the vehicle owner or issues an appointment to issue an inspection certificate for new vehicles that are only issued an appointment to issue vehicle registration.
