The Interior Ministry has prepared new amendments to the rules for registration of vehicles. The document is posted on the Federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts. If the provisions are adopted, they will take effect on August 4, 2019.

According to the amendments, owners of transport will be able to get registration marks only with the region code of their registration. At the same time, the procedure of registering vehicles will still be available in any branch of the traffic police in Russia.

"The assignment of state registration numbers for vehicles is carried out on the basis of the place of registration of the vehicle owner, according to which the registration region code of the assigned state registration number must correspond to the list of digital codes of regions of the Russian Federation used on state vehicle registration marks," the document says.

Now, a resident of one region could buy a car with the numbers of another subject of the Russian Federation and continue operating the car with the same registration marks, or get numbers with a local code in any region. In the event that new amendments are adopted, the vehicle owner will have to receive new license plates indicating the region in which it is registered.

Until October 2013, there was a procedure similar to the one that plans to return the Interior Ministry. The numbers were tied to the owner's residence permit and during the change, separate removal and registration procedures were required, during which the car changed registration plates.

The traffic police want to return to the old system in order to know exactly which region the car came from, autoexpert Roman Gulyaev suggested in an interview with RT.

“Indeed, in recent years it is not tied and you can register anywhere and get that region code where you register your car, or you can leave the old numbers altogether,” the expert reminded.

In his opinion, the new decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs may be due to the desire to gain more control.

“In an amicable way, it is really necessary to relieve the traffic police. The only question is how this process will physically go through, whether there will be a corruption component there, ”concluded Gulyaev.

According to the coordinator of the Society of Blue Buckets, Peter Shkumatov, it will be more convenient to work with the new traffic police system - it is immediately clear from which region the car is in front of you.

“This is very convenient for the traffic police personnel who serve on the roads. I think that they return to this practice for this reason. This will remove some of the load for the traffic police, although the life of the drivers it does not affect. Everything is new, it is well forgotten old. And in this case, everything is new, this is a badly forgotten old, ”the expert concluded.

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The bill also states that the traffic police will assign the car a combination of letters and numbers, which is a registration number.

“Placing a vehicle on state accounting is accompanied by assigning a state registration number to a vehicle — an individual alphanumeric designation assigned to the vehicle by a registration subdivision,” the document says.

Number at the car dealer

The item on the assignment of traffic police designations for the future number is another, more ambitious document, which should enter into force on the same term - August 4, 2019. We are talking about the law "On state registration of vehicles", adopted by the State Duma in July 2018.

This document separates the concepts of registration number and mark. The first is the combination of letters and numbers that the traffic police assigns. Under the second - a metal plate made from a third-party commercial company with a number printed on it. Thus, the function of issuing physical license plates is transferred from the traffic police to private companies.

In addition, the adopted law states that new cars that were not previously registered will register car dealers directly entered in a special register. To be included in this list, the company must have a contract with the manufacturer, premises and a staff of qualified employees.

Representatives of authorized organizations will be able to transfer registration data to the traffic police for registration of the car.

We add that the Ministry of Internal Affairs in a separate bill proposed to abolish the fee for the issuance of registration marks, since the agency will transfer these functions to commercial firms. The corresponding document is still under consideration.

Now the state fee for issuing a number is 2,000 rubles for car owners and 1,500 rubles for owners of motorcycles, trailers, tractors, self-propelled road-building and other self-propelled cars.