the Council of State gives the government two months to establish it

The Council of State gave Thursday, June 1 to the government two months to take the decree setting up the technical control for motorized two-wheelers, in accordance with a provision imposed at European level but never put into practice by France.

Minister Delegate for Transport Clément Beaune reacted immediately, saying that the government would “of course apply the decision of the Council of State” and that he himself would specify “in the coming days the timetable and the methods of the technical control”, in a communicated.

At this stage, the exact date on which the motorcycles and scooters will be subject to technical control in France is not known.

“No time to bother the French”

The highest administrative court, which was seized in summary proceedings (in an emergency) by several associations fighting for air quality and road safety, ordered the government to “take the decree of application of the decree of August 9, 2021 relating the implementation of the technical inspection of motorized vehicles with two or three wheels and motorized quadricycles within two months of the notification of this decision”.

In August 2021, a decree had indeed provided for the start of technical inspection in January 2023 for vehicles registered before 2016, and later for the others. But the next day, at the request of Emmanuel Macron, the government had indicated that it would not apply it, because “it (was) not the time to bother the French”, according to an adviser to the executive.

Time limit

The Respire, Ras le Scoot and Paris Sans Car associations then seized the Council of State under an emergency procedure to demand the application of the European directive as soon as possible. And, the highest administrative court in the country had agreed with them in May 2022, ordering the executive to apply it from October 2022.

Since then, the government has been planning to pass a light check on two-wheelers, for less than fifty euros, from June 2023, according to a government note consulted by AFP.

The Council of State agrees with us again: the government has 2 months to apply the technical control of motorized 2-wheelers!
Bravo @CamilleMialot@RasLeScoot@parisansvoiture for holding on! And now @CBeaune@ChristopheBechu@Elisabeth_Borne at work 😉! pic.twitter.com/Zq4qdNimK8

— Respire Association (@respireasso) June 1, 2023

The applicant associations welcomed the decision of the Council of State, indicating that they hoped that the government “stops shrinking from the inevitable introduction of technical control”. The European Commission had imposed a technical inspection in 2014 in all countries of the European Union, wishing it to be implemented from January 2022 for two-wheelers over 125 cm3.

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