Luxembourg Registration & Roadworthiness Testing : National Society for Automobile Traffic & Departmernt of Transport

Organization : National Society for Automobile Traffic & Departmernt of Transport
Service Name : Registration & Roadworthiness Testing
Country: Luxembourg

Website : https://luxembourg.public.lu/en.html

Registration & Roadworthiness Testing:

Automotive vehicles and their trailers may not be put on the road unless they have registration plates. All automotive vehicles subject to registration in the Grand Duchy must be tested for roadworthiness.

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Registration:
Every new and second-hand car registered in the Grand Duchy is identifiable by a single registration number, allocated by the Department of Transport.

The number is visible on a plate bearing a unique combination of numbers and/or letters (black lettering on a yellow background) so that the vehicle is readily identifiable.

The state has entrusted the organisation of registration, including the allocation of registration numbers, to a company, the National Society of Automobile Traffic (Société nationale de circulation automobile, SNCA).

The owner of a road vehicle who imports it into the Grand Duchy when moving house from abroad has six months from the date of arrival within which to carry out the procedures for registering the vehicle with the SNCT.

Further details are available on the website at www.snca.lu and from the Department of Transport.

Personalised registration plate
Vehicle owners may nevertheless request the allocation of a specific plate, such as a round number or a specific combination of figures and/or letters.

Roadworthiness testing:
All automotive vehicles subject to registration in the Grand Duchy must be tested for roadworthiness.

Vehicles are tested by the SNCT under instruction from the Departmernt of Transport.

Pass Periodic Vehicle Inspection :
Persons concerned :
** Any person residing in the Grand Duchy who is the owner or holder of a vehicle registered and in circulation in Luxembourg and whose technical control certificate has come or is about to expire, is concerned.

** Note that it is possible to present a vehicle to the periodic inspection 8 weeks before the expiry of the certificate. The validity of the new certificate shall continue to be calculated from the expiry date of the current certificate.

Are not subject to periodic technical inspection :
** Small trailers (maximum permissible mass less than 750 kg);
** Motor vehicles not exceeding the maximum speed of 25 km / h;
** Mopeds and light quadricycles;

** Tractors and mobile machinery whose maximum speed is limited to 40 km / h, whose unladen mass exceeds 600 kg and which are not intended to exceed 25 km / h when they drag one or more other vehicles;

** The historic vehicles put into circulation for the first time before 1 January 1950.
** Vehicles subject to registration in Luxembourg without being subject to technical control may be put into circulation only under cover of a valid conformity sticker.

Costs :
** The tariff for the technical inspection of a car in a control station of the National Technical Supervision Company (SNCT) is currently about 37.5 euros, including VAT.
** Technical checks carried out outside one of the SNCT control stations shall be subject to the tariffs determined by the garages performing the inspection.