Negotiations have moved into high gear. The measure might take effect within a year.
It has been forty years since the vignette vertecertificate ofcar insuranceadorns the windscreens of vehicles French. A macaron which may soon disappear. In effect, France Insurersa federation of 247 insurers, is currently in negotiations with the three ministries concerned (Transport, Economy and Interior) in order to remove the famous vignette, according to information from the Parisian.
Savings for policyholders?
Pour France Insurers, the objective is twofold. One, that gendarmes and police use the File of Insured Vehicles (FAV), which lists all the information in digital format. A more than 99% reliable FAV. But also prevent the production of 50 million paper documents each year. That is savings estimated at 17 million euros for insurers, and a possible impact on the amount of the contract for the insured.
“At the time, it was rightly created to combat non-insurance”recalls Franck Le Vallois, Managing Director of France Assureurs. “But today we have all the technical means to simplify the lives of French people and improve the fight once morest fraud. We are hopeful that our proposal will succeed”…Not immediately. “After the publication of a possible decree, we want to prepare people’s minds for a short year. We don’t want French people to panic at not receiving the sticker in their mailbox as usual”.
