EU harmonisation of MOT requirements

[Stu]

The EU is looking at harmonising MOT requirements across member states and whether it would be a good idea to adopt the most stringent regulations such as Germany's.
Also considering extending roadside checks that currently apply to commercial vehicles to all Motorcycles (note cars won't be affected!).

If you would like to tell the EU to F off and not change the current arrangements please fill out the following form before Friday 24th Sept when consultation ends.

http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/fo...roadworthiness

Note the whole of Europe is trying to fill out the same form so it might take a while to load.

See more at http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_s...ons/pti_en.htm

MAG PRESS RELEASE

13-09-10 
For immediate use

The European Commission has launched an internet consultation to gauge reaction to the idea of a standardised EU MOT which might be far more demanding than the British one.

They are also considering increasing the frequency of inspections and a requirement to have vehicles re-inspected if they have been modified since being tested or if the vehicle is sold.

Road-side spot-checks specifically for motorcycles are also under consideration.

Harmonisation to the harshest test conditions currently found in any member state is an option being considered. Currently the most severe test regime is endured by Germany where riders face a far more stringent regime of testing and restriction than the UK enforces.

Nich Brown, General Secretary of MAG(UK), said
“The scope of this consultation confirms that the EU is contemplating a draconian and expensive burden on riders. All riders need to act now to challenge the potential excesses of yet another pan-European system that fails to meet the needs of individual nations.”

The questions in the on-line consultation form are pitched in a suspicious manner which suggests that its architects have assumed the merit of such an initiative. It is also worrying that the consultation is published only in English whereas most of the countries who currently have no MOT equivalent test and so will be most affected, are not English speaking. Worse still, only three weeks have been allowed for stakeholders to respond.

The worst scenario option which the questionnaire encourages participants to support, contradicts the claim by the EU that they wish to reduce the burdens on citizens.

Nich Brown added
“Since vehicle defects are implicated in less than 1% of motorcycle crashes in Great Britain and many of that 1% are simply down to under-inflated tyres this whole plan has the look of an expensive red herring.”

MAG is encouraging riders to complete the survey and opt for the ‘no change’ to present system option.

The consultation runs until 24th September 2010 http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/di...=roadworthiness

[yorkie_chris]

What a set of c***s.

+1

[Geodude]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

What a set of c***s.

+2... a regular shower of substance from above.

It always annoys me that they pick on motorcycles to test these wacky ideas on, despite there being as near to 0 as makes no difference crashes caused by bike defects.

[Biker Biggles]

Bl00dy Gordon Brown.I thought we got rid of him and his mad ideas.

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

Bl00dy Gordon Brown.I thought we got rid of him and his mad ideas.

Gordon Brown has nothing on what the EU can generate...

[Stu]

I hope all of you have registered your disgust and request for NO CHANGE on the link and not just Bitchin' on here
http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/fo...roadworthiness

Yip. Although as-per normal it's a pretty complicated form designed with heaps of ambiguity.

[the_lone_wolf]

<Devil's Advocate>

The MOT test is a joke in the UK though if we're honest isn't it?

You can get almost anything through with enough tape holding it together

Isn't bringing in a test that actually requires some road-worthiness a good thing?

<Devil's Advocate>