A new Rule for drivers comes into force in 2023: However, this affects neither traffic rules nor signs, but your own License Plate. The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport has now announced a ten-day period to make new registrations less stressful.
And that’s what it’s all about: car registrations via that Internet should be easier. On Wednesday (February 15, 2023), the Federal Cabinet passed an ordinance from the Minister of Transport Volker Wissing. “From September it means: Allow digital and drive off immediately,” said the FDP politician.
New license plate: Digital car registrations should be easier
In the future, it should be possible to pick up a vehicle immediately after a digital registration to be used as proof with the digital notification. So you no longer have to wait for the vehicle documents and stickers to be sent and you can drive up to ten days without them, as the ministry explained. A license plate but it has to be on the car. “Thanks to the new regulations, tiresome and time-consuming administrative procedures are a thing of the past,” promised Minister Wissing.
But that’s not all: In addition to the possibility, too special markssuch as E-license plates, classic car license plates and seasonal license plates, can now also be applied for for the first time via the Internet legal persons The ministry adds that applications for the registration of a vehicle can be processed digitally via the existing i-car portals at the registration authorities. Thanks to the regulation, the fees should also be “significantly cheaper” compared to the procedure in the local authority, according to the announcement.
The ordinance, which also provides for new regulations for digital registrations for car dealerships and registration service providers, is to take effect on September 1, 2023 come into effect. The Federal Council still has to agree. The states are then responsible for implementing the regulation. Digital approvals are already possible via certain portals. To the requirements According to the ministry, this includes a new electronic ID card with an activated online ID function.
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