The presentation in Congress of the extensive omnibus bill has several articles aimed at changes in the automotive industry regulations.
Among many articles, the one that was first known was the one that modifies the current operation of the Automotive Property Registry, with the aim of reducing costs, digitizing and simplifying the number of procedures and requirements to register or patent a vehicle.
The other proposes changes in the methodology of carrying out the Vehicle Technical Verification (VTV), mandatory requirement to be able to circulate.
Article 630 seeks to decentralize the controls of authorized plants and open the game so that official dealers and neighborhood workshops They can also be the venue to carry out the technical review.
The National Traffic Law 24,449 indicates in its article 34 that “the parts and systems to be examined, the periodicity of the review, the procedure to be used, the criteria for evaluating results and the place where it is carried out, are established by the regulations and completed by the competent authority.”
And it goes on to clarify that each provincial authority “may delegate the verification to the official concessionaires of the manufacturers or importers or to workshops authorized for these purposes, maintaining strict control.”
Although this is in the law, so far control is centralized in authorized plants by the companies that provide the service.
The decentralization of the service could not only facilitate and give the user the freedom to choose the most convenient location, it would also diversify the offer for avoid excessive demand for shifts.
Let us remember that when the service was restored after the pandemic, the authorized plants in the province of Buenos Aires could not cope with the infinite demand for shifts, which is why the Buenos Aires Ministry of Transportation established that those motorists who can prove that they have obtained a shift for carry out the mandatory mechanical inspection, they could circulate with proof of the procedure until the day assigned to carry it out.
The omnibus law project would modify only this point of article 34 of the Traffic Law, establishing that the venues would no longer be chosen arbitrarily by the authoritieswhich would have the power to determine the requirements that each workshop should meet.
The review periods as well as the control systems and criteria will remain the same.
Scam alert
As a few months ago, the government of the province of Buenos Aires once again alerted users about a new scam virtual when reserving an appointment for the Vehicle Technical Verification (VTV).
Its about phishing through fake web pages (usually sponsored) that pretend to be the official and obtain private data from users.
The notice on the single page says: “Given the reports of scams in the reservation of shifts for the VTV, the Ministry of Transportation of the Province of Buenos Aires informs that during the process your card information or payment are NOT requested. in advance”.
He also advises dismiss and denounce to those who receive communications that request banking information.
