Chancer Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 I just saw on the news that the vehicle immatriculation system is to change from 2008, from then on when registering a new car you will be issued with a reg number that will stay with you for life, when you sell the car you keep the plates to put on your new one, they will also no longer carry the departement number so perhaps Parisien drivers will now be let out of side turnings etc in my region!The change will also be effective on used cars but only when they are sold or any other changes made to the carte grise.With the new system you will no longer need to reregister the car when moving to another departement.E&OE - my French is not perfect but I think that I understood it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 [quote user="J.R."] when registering a new car you will be issued with a reg number that will stay with you for life, when you sell the car you keep the plates to put on your new one[/quote]Are you sure about this J.R.? The plate stays with you and not the car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulT Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 JR as you have mentioned the great man [+o(] does anyone know what the outcome was of his little slip up of having French plates on a Range Rover in France and the same plate on a Disco in the UK?Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Similar systems are already used in some of the EU countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 According to the SIV http://www.cnpa.fr/siv/sivnews0206_PA.html#immatvie the plate will stay with the car, and not the owner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 This has been talked about, and put off, several times in the recent past. There has been some opposition from people who want to keep their locality on their vehicle plates, this has been addressed by an optional blue area on the right of the plate, corresponding to the country identifier on the left. It is interesting that some other 'personal' plates, like the German ones, include a code for the town of registration, e.g. HH for Hamburg etc.I wonder if this will start a trade in 'cherished' number plates in France, or are the French not sufficiently vain [;-)][:P] ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted August 14, 2007 Author Share Posted August 14, 2007 Sorry for the delay, i was kept in the hospital during my last out patient appointment for yet another emergency operation so its back to square one again regarding the eye.It is entirely possible that I misunderstood part of the news item as I did reflect later that it would have made more sense for the plates to stay with the vehicle, I was pretty sure that I understood it all but as the news was not subtitled maybe I misunderstood having only just swung the dish to recieve only french programs.I am certain that they said that it would happen in 2008 rather than is proposed, we will have to wait and see, the news item was on Arte/5 just before I posted, did anyone else see it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 As Cat said, according to the offficial site http://www.cnpa.fr/siv/sivnews0206_PA.html#immatvie the plate definietly stays with the vehicle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted August 15, 2007 Author Share Posted August 15, 2007 Straying slightly off topic and only of hypothetical interest to me as I dont intend moving.Under the current system when one moves departement the car has to get a new carte grise, does this mean that the full CV based fiscale charge is once again payable, even if it has only recently been paid?Or is there perhaps some exemption for those who have to move with their job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana (ex tag) Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 The business of plates staying with the owner not the car is a nightmare and full of nasty little wrinkles. I had to live with that in Belgium - hideous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat paul Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 [quote user="J.R."]Straying slightly off topic and only of hypothetical interest to me as I dont intend moving.Under the current system when one moves departement the car has to get a new carte grise, does this mean that the full CV based fiscale charge is once again payable, even if it has only recently been paid?Or is there perhaps some exemption for those who have to move with their job?[/quote]No it cost nothing to change, other than the new reg plates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 What is Noel Edmonds supposed to have done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suze01 Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 He was photopgraphed one morning in his Landrover Discovery on French plates in the UK then again the same afternoon in his Landrover Rangerover in the afternoon after flying to his other home in the south of France which was on the same number plates. (The dtails could be the wrong way around) ie two cars, two countries, one set of number plates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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