Insurance, CoC, Carte Grise in France

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10-02-2012, 04:09 AM

thebiglad

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Originally Posted by steveinfrance

Dave - I had no problems with the DREAL, just bring your logbook and tyre size.
As I said earlier ask for a récipisse de depôt de dossier they will give you a nice printout with the RF flag on top giving you all the details the CT people need to issue your CT.
Check with the Préfecture before going that the DREAL has sent them the CoC.
Don't forget passports for all owners (see Richard's post#3 - very important)

Hi Steve, you suggest that it is necessary to provide the CT people with some form of conformité document such as the DREAL doc.

This has not been my experience to date. I explained to the CT guy in Boussac that since Jan 2003 a CoC is no longer required and he accepted that and just did the CT. I then went to the Préfecture with my post Jan 2003 V5+CT+Hotel des Impots doc and the Demande d'un Carte Grise doc and they just processed it straight away.

I think what we are seeing here is that across the French Regions and departements there are different interpretations of the law & practice put in place at Government level.

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10-02-2012, 05:16 AM

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Dave,
It was January this year I got my CT done - when I booked into the CT centre they said they needed a doc. from DREAL.
It wasn't a CoC, simply a note with my UK reg no. on it to say that DREAL had opened a dossier.

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11-17-2014, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by SputNic

Hi Dave,

as said by Richard, the famous Certficiate of conformity (COC) is needed here in France to get is registered. There is an alternative but I decided to go that way and found an internet company called Eurococ.com for the price of about 220€.

The contrôle technique is as well requested for registration but usually if the car is in good shape shouldn't be a problem (except for english headlamps.)

I just went through the process :-)

Cheers,
Nicolas

COC is only available for european registered vehicules, and not for US imported cars.
Even if built in UK, an US car is not european compliant !
You'll have to pass to the DREAL to get your certificate.

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