Fees approved for repeat technical inspection of vehicles across Georgia
Repeat inspections for vehicles across Georgia will involve a fee of ₾30 ($11) for owners of buses and trucks and ₾20 ($7) for light passenger and cargo vehicles starting today. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Repeat inspections for vehicles across Georgia will involve a fee of ₾30 ($11) for owners of buses and trucks and ₾20 ($7) for light passenger and cargo vehicles starting today, Giorgi Shiolashvili, the Chairman of the Union of Technical Inspection Centres, confirmed on Wednesday.
Shiolashvili also told local media outlet Interpressnews regulations on monitoring visually perceptible emissions would probably come into force in the summer.
Starting this year, inspections will test emissions for the upper limit of 0.55 percent of carbon monoxide on idling engines, ahead of its further reduction to 0.5 percent in 2024 and 0.5/0.3 percent on idling and high idling speed modes respectively in 2025, as announced by the Ministry of Economy in December.
The state body said the gradual tightening of the regulations would ensure “full compliance with best international emission control practices” by 2025 and reduce environmental harm from vehicle emissions.
Imports of diesel in Georgia will be limited to Euro 5-standard fuel starting this year, in a move aiming to reduce environmental pollution, Nino Tandilashvili, the Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, told Business Media Georgia on Sunday.
Regulations on vehicle emissions will be tightened across Georgia starting next year, the country’s Economy Ministry revealed on Thursday, noting the upper limit of carbon monoxide in emissions would be reduced as part of the changes.
Out of 1,398,434 vehicles inspected in Georgia in 2019, 50 per cent failed inspection, show data from the Ministry of Economy.
A total of 6,654 fines have been issued between 14-17 January in Georgia, following the installation of so-called ‘smart cameras’ which automatically fine drivers that have failed to undergo mandatory vehicle inspection.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday announced Government plans to introduce the Euro 5 emissions standard for cars in a bid to reduce air pollution across the country.
The amount of fines issued for violation of parking rules in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi has increased by 308 percent year-on-year in the first seven months of 2023, local media outlet BPN has reported.
Legal and technical aspects of implementation of the 1958 United Nations agreement on production of vehicles and automotive parts in Georgia were discussed in a meeting between the country’s Deputy Economy Minister Guram Guramishvili and representatives of the Sustainable Transport Division of the UN Economic Commission for Europe.