Full appraisal individual acceptance monopoly fallen under § 21 StVZO law

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Full appraisal individual acceptance monopoly fallen under § 21 StVZO law

Monopoly § 21 StVZO has fallen
Full appraisals and individual approvals are now allowed

With its resolution on Friday (February 15, 2019), the Federal Council paved the way for the liberalization of Section 21 of the STVZO. In the future, all testing organizations will be entitled to make a full report and individual acceptances.

Uli Baumann

02/15/2019

Paragraph 21 of the StVZO regulates the operating permit for individual vehicles. The so-called full report is mandatory for vehicles that have been out of service for more than 7 years and are unable to present a data confirmation, certificate of individual approval or an EC certificate of conformity when they are re-registered or for vehicles that have been imported into Germany from abroad.

All are now also allowed to accept individual purchases

Exceptions are new or used vehicles with an EEC operating license and a so-called EC declaration of conformity, which was issued by the manufacturer / importer based on the vehicle identification number. A full appraisal is always required for individually imported vehicles from the non-EC area (e.g. USA / Canada). Up to now, this full report could only be obtained from the TuV in the old federal states. In the new federal states this monopoly was held by DEKRA.

Vehicle conversions for which no expert opinion can be submitted and which are popularly referred to as special acceptance or individual acceptance also fall under Section 21 of the STVZO.

With today’s Federal Council resolution, these monopoly positions are lifted, so that customers can obtain a full report or an individual acceptance with their vehicle from any testing organization. This liberalization of the market could also result in shifts in the fee structure. However, dumping prices are not to be expected, since the legislature also specifies a fee framework here.

This new regulation only becomes valid when it is published in the Federal Law Gazette. The testing organizations in Germany include TuV, Dekra, GTu, FSP and KuS. With the liberalization, however, not every test center is immediately able to carry out full reports and individual approvals, because the test personnel must first have acquired the appropriate authorizations. Since many reviewers are self-employed, such courses, which last around 30 days, are usually placed in the less labor-intensive winter months. At numerous test centers, the new options will only be available from the 2020 season.

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