Technical control celebrates its 30th anniversary in France
In a week, exactly, the technical control will celebrate its 30th anniversary. The first French group of technical control recalls that it has enabled improvements in terms of road safety, but...
19/12/2021
In a week, exactly, the technical control will celebrate its 30th anniversary. The first French group of technical control recalls that it has enabled improvements in terms of road safety, but also the environment.
While it has all the trouble in the world to impose itself among motorcyclists, technical control is celebrating its 30th anniversary for four-wheeled vehicles. If one could have imagined it to be older, it is not so since the decree dates from June 18, 1991. The effective entry into force of the first technical inspections will be made on January 1 of the following year.
SGS, the first French group in the CT (with the Securitest and Auto Sécurité networks) recalls that originally, the technical control was only done at the time of vehicle transactions, and not periodically, as is the case today (first every 4 years for the vehicle, then every 2 years for a particular car). A technical control which underwent a major reform in 2018, in particular to better monitor polluting emissions, in the wake of the dieselgate scandal.
Remember that at the time of the entry into force of the technical control, there were more than 10,000 deaths per year on the roads in France. Today there are three times fewer, and that's probably partly thanks to controls, although obviously the impressive evolution of passive and active safety is certainly responsible for the bulk of the drop.