Brussels, 07/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 3 March, the European Commission launched a public consultation exercise to discover the main problems encountered by Europeans and companies when taking a car bought and registered in one member state and registering it in another member state. The consultation exercise will provide individuals and other interested parties with an opportunity to have their views heard on the subject of car registration. The information culled will be used to design measures to make it easier to register cars in the EU and thereby remove an obstacle to the free movement of goods and services.
SOLVIT, Europe's online tool for detecting and solving problems related to the single market, reports that 5% of cases in SOLVIT are related to vehicle registration. Most of these cases concerned either import into the member state of normal residence, or registration in a member state other than the state of normal residence. A major problem is the requirement to have a national certificate of conformity for vehicles that had previously been registered in another member state. (http://www.ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=CARREGISTRATION&lang=en ). (L.C./transl.fl)