Car registration is yet about to catch up with digital reality. president Karol Nawrocki signed an amendment to the Traffic Law, which opens the way to apply for registration of a vehicle via the internet, extends the terms for heirs and limits the paperwork while maintaining the existing registration number. The rules will enter into force in six months, giving time to adapt systems and offices.
Registration of online cars will yet be possible
The amendment signed by the president is primarily intended to soften the procedures that drivers face erstwhile registering a car. The most crucial change is the anticipation of submitting an application for registration of the vehicle by electronic means. alternatively of a individual visit to the department of communication and the completion of paper documents, any formalities will be possible from home or office.
"Newing the Act of 20 June 1997. – The road traffic law aims to simplify and shorten the procedure for the registration of motor vehicles, thus introducing facilitations for vehicle owners of individuals and entrepreneurs and registration authorities" - the Communication states.
The fresh rules are intended to reduce the burden on citizens – both temporary and administrative. The request to "shake" all time from the window will disappear, if the case can be carried out full digitally. This is simply a step towards a model where the office becomes an online service, and individual contact is only needed if it is truly unavoidable.
What precisely will change for car owners?
The amendment is not limited to the electronic way itself. The amendment package besides included the abolition of the work to legalise registration plates on re-registration of the vehicle if the owner wants to keep the existing number. In practice, this means little formalities, shorter procedures and lower costs associated with the exchange of plates, erstwhile the car does not change its "identity" on the road.
The legislature besides faced the heirs. Until now, the individual who acquired the vehicle in decline had 30 days to apply for registration. erstwhile the fresh rules enter into force, the deadline will be extended to 60 days. This is an crucial facilitation in situations where inheritance formalities and asset clearing take longer than a month, and the car is only 1 of the many elements to be addressed.
The rules of temporary vehicle registration are besides changing. It will not only be carried out at the office competent for the owner's place of residence, but besides at the place where the car is purchased.
From another interesting novelties, the amendment is intended to supply confirmation in the registration certificate that the car is suitable for towing a trailer without additional method tests if the information on specified adaptation is in the vehicle approval documents.
CEPIK is to be friendly to citizens
The fresh bill is besides intended to enable the modernization of the Central Vehicle and Driver Records. It is CEPiK that is the method base of most procedures related to the registration of vehicles and the granting of driving powers. Without its adjustment, it would be hard to talk about a real digitization of the process.
Changes in law are intended to open the way for the automation of parts of administrative activities. The aim is to guarantee that the IT strategy takes over as many repetitive tasks as possible – to verify data, check the compatibility of information, make papers – and that the authoritative is only active where actual evaluation, decision or intervention is needed. As a result, drivers are expected to experience shorter times of handling and less weaknesses on the administration side.
When will drivers feel changes?
The president's signature does not mean that the fresh rules will apply immediately. According to the President's Chancellery, the regulations will enter into force six months after the announcement. This is simply a standard buffer to let the public administration to prepare for implementation – from changes in CEPiK, by updating procedures, to training officials.
Only after this period will drivers be able to actually apply for vehicle registration by electronic means and usage fresh facilities. By then, the process will proceed on the basis of the existing principles, although the Act already sets the course: little formalities, more digital solutions and a much more flexible approach.
