In mid-2011, Russia adopted a new law "On the technical inspection of vehicles" and amended the "Code of Administrative Offenses". The innovations envisaged by the law in the organization of technical inspection came into effect on January 1, 2012, and most drivers no longer needed to carry a technical certificate with them.
Representatives of the traffic safety service have lost all interest in the technical standard of the owners of ordinary private vehicles, but now all the previous fines and other punishments for the lack of a ticket are attributed to the lack of insurance. Since the beginning of 2012, the responsibility to monitor the passage of the vehicle has been transferred to the insurer - a vehicle that has not passed this procedure will not be insured. They took away from the traffic police and the obligation to carry out the inspection itself - now this is done by the car services of authorized dealers. True, for the transition period, which should end in 2014, in 22 regions of Russia, the former traffic police inspection points will operate in parallel with private ones. Moreover, the law now does not oblige to undergo technical inspection at the place of registration of the car, this can be done anywhere in Russia. Since August 9, 2012, after passing this procedure, car owners receive a "diagnostic card" instead of the previous technical standard, and the results of a car inspection are also entered into a unified national technical inspection system - UAIS TO. Since 2013, the diagnostic card should also become electronic.
According to the new law, cars manufactured more than seven years ago are required to undergo technical inspection every year, and newer cars are twice as rare. The owners of cars produced less than three years ago are the luckiest of all - they do not have to carry out this procedure before the expiration date of the current technical standard. On the other hand, vehicles intended for the carriage of passengers (buses, taxis) and dangerous goods are required to undergo an inspection every six months and for them the presence of a technical certificate in the car is still mandatory.
The introduction of all these innovations in the first months of 2012 did not go without failures. In some regions, documents regulating the work of insurers and authorized technical inspection stations were received out of time, somewhere there were problems with connecting the software to the UAIS TO system, etc. However, now we can say that the system for organizing technical inspection, introduced by the new law, is working quite satisfactorily.
