The Council of State rejected a request from local residents and environmental defense associations which asked to establish a technical inspection for motorized two-wheelers from 2022 in France, according to an ordinance published on Tuesday.
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Technical inspection of two-wheelers, required by the European Union since 2014 to improve road safety, protect the environment and limit noise pollution, should in principle be implemented by January 1, 2022 by each Member State at the latest. . In France, a decree - published on August 11, 2021 - had fixed a gradual entry into force of this biannual technical inspection from 2023. It was to extend to all motorized vehicles with two, three and four wheels, scooters of 50 cm3 and cars without license included.
But the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron had suspended him the next day, believing that
"it was not the time to annoy the French"
, had advanced an adviser to the executive to justify this decision.
An
"alternative device"
is currently in preparation at the Ministry of Transport.
It must then be presented to the biker federations, then to Brussels, in order to enact a new text which will replace the decree of August 2021.
Emergency
Following the suspension of the decree in August by the President of the Republic, the association "Respire" for the fight against atmospheric pollution as well as Ras le Scoot and Paris Sans Car had filed a request for excess of power and a summary. suspension before the Council of State, requesting the application of this technical control from January 1, 2022 to comply with European law. They had stressed the urgency to fight against air pollution and noise pollution, and to reduce the mortality of motorcycle drivers through technical control. Tuesday, the summary judge of the Council of State considered that this request did not represent
"an emergency justifying a suspension measure to be pronounced"
, but it could be examined on the merits in the first half of 2022.
At the beginning of September, the Minister Delegate for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari presented avenues for alternative measures around strengthening road safety through
"training"
, the experimentation of sound radars against tampered exhausts, and a two-wheeler conversion bonus project to encourage the purchase of less polluting vehicles.
Most European countries have already implemented this technical control.
Only Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands have adopted alternative measures to reduce the number of accidents, which have enabled them to bypass it.