It’s a little piece of paper that we see on everyone cars and motorcycles. The famous green vignette proving that the motorist or motorcyclist has subscribed to a assurance. But, this card might disappear as early as next year.
“We are working, with the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, on the removal of this small green sticker that you have to stick behind your windshield and which shows that you are well insured”, confided Bruno Le Maire, Minister of economy to echoes.
Checks possible thanks to the registration
To replace the sticker, a dematerialized system might be set up from the File of insured vehicles (FAV). Law enforcement might check whether the vehicle is insured through the license plate. A decision supported by the federation of insurance companies, details The Parisian.
Police and gendarmes have had access to this file since 2019. It is updated by insurance companies and lists 56 million vehicles. Everything is listed there: vehicle registration, name of insurer, contract number and expiry date… “There may be, at the margin, errors in the recording of information, but nothing prevents behind to provide a certificate of insurance to settle the dispute. The reliability is more than 99%,” assured Franck Le Vallois in an interview with the Parisian last May.
An ecological decision
This system would also be simpler for users who would no longer be required to have the insurance certificate with them, under penalty of a fine of 35 euros. One point remains to be clarified in the event of an accident: how will individuals be able to know if the vehicle opposite is insured?
Finally, abandoning the green sticker and related documents would prevent the printing of approximately 50 million documents per year.
