Revising the annual technical reviews system. Starting today, an interagency commission must come up with a way to regulate the review problems. The permissible values for emissions were introduced in Bulgaria in 2012 and apply a European directive. Since July 22, when the new system became operational, again in a period of two weeks, 127,085 cars have passed successfully. 1,808 of the total number have been provisionally admitted, and 181 have not been admitted.
In front of NOVA, Transport Minister Georgi Gvozdeikov presented his proposals to calm the tension that has arisen. The idea is that harmful emissions will no longer be classified as dangerous, which will keep cars running. The deadline for removing such type of malfunctions should be extended from 14 to 30 days.
„These data clearly show that the number of returned cars is about 1% of all and there is no chaos with the inspections. This 1% is the result of the functioning of the management and quality control system, and shows that the system really works, emphasized the Minister of Transport and Communications.
"As of today, a working group has been formed in the IA “Automotive Administration” to prepare changes to the rules for annual technical inspections of cars. We will propose to extend the deadline for the removal of detected “significant malfunctions” during the technical inspections", Gvozdeikov said during a visit to one of the Sofia checkpoints.
The other proposal presented by the minister is that cars that do not meet the permissible environmental standards should also fall into the category of “significant malfunctions”, and not be stopped from moving as it is at the moment. “In this way, the owner of the car will be given time to fix this problem, which essentially does not pose a direct danger to traffic on the road,” Minister Gvozdeikov explained.
The permissible emission values were introduced in Bulgaria in 2012 and apply a European directive. “What we have changed now is to tighten control by connecting the meters at the points directly to the IA “Vehicle Administration” and the data from each measurement comes in automatically. Until now, it was possible to manually correct this data in the points. This is not possible now," said Minister Georgi Gvozdeikov.
He presented statistics that in a two-week period before the quality management and control system became operational, 139,251 cars had passed a technical inspection. 208 motor vehicles were found to have significant faults and were returned for fault rectification, and 32 did not pass inspection due to discovered dangerous faults.