The technical control is evolving for its thirtieth anniversary and follows a European directive of 2014. The passage of the periodic examination for two-wheeled, three-wheeled and motorized quadricycles will be imposed from January 1, 2023.
The threat had been hovering for a few months, causing the biker associations to revolt, but in vain: technical control will now be compulsory for motorcyclists. Long postponed in France, the measure was however imposed by a European directive of 2014 and already implemented in many of our neighbors.
Motorized two-wheelers and three-wheelers, as well as category L motor quadricycles, will therefore have to take the exam in the same way as other vehicles from the 1er January 2023. Worn by Jean Castex (Prime Minister), Barbara Pompili (Minister for Ecological Transition) and Jean-Baptiste Djebbari (Minister Delegate to the Minister for Ecological Transition, in charge of transport), the decree of August 9 was published in Official newspaper this August 11, 2021.
As with all other vehicles affected by technical control (which celebrates its 30th anniversary), motorcycles will have to undergo a first check in the six months preceding the fourth anniversary of the vehicle, then to a periodic check every two years from the fourth anniversary. Classic vehicles must pass the exam every five years.
A schedule to follow from 2023
Motorized vehicles with two or three wheels, the 50 cm3, but also cars without a license (including electric quadricycles like the Citroën Ami) put into service before 1er January 2023 will have to comply with the following schedule for their first check:
- The first check of vehicles registered before 1er January 2016 is to be carried out in 2023.
- The first inspection of vehicles registered between the 1er January 2016 and December 31, 2020 is to be achieved in 2024.
- The first inspection of vehicles registered between the 1er January 2021 and December 31, 2021 is to be achieved in 2025.
- The first inspection of vehicles registered between the 1er January 2022 and December 31, 2022 is to be achieved in 2026.
The decree indicates that the control must be carried out, at the latest, within four months of the anniversary date of their first entry into circulation, within the limit of December 31 of the year provided.
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