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Decree to extend the pickerl deadline
The Ministry of Infrastructure has published a decree that is intended to clear up ambiguities that arose from the extension of the deadline for the §57a review due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Decree to extend the pickerl deadline
The main points of the decree:
– In summary, it provides for an extension of the validity of assessment stickers or test certificates by seven months if they expire or have expired between February 1st, 2020 and August 31st, 2020.
– It should be noted that this extension only refers to the validity date of the proof (plaque or assessment form) and not also to the four-month tolerance regulation of Section 57a Paragraph 3 KFG. The extension of validity does not change the time of the next inspection of the vehicle.
– The reports (test certificates) extended by the regulation can subsequently also be used as evidence for vehicle registrations.
– Substantive deadlines that would expire after March 13, 2020 and that cannot be extended due to the restrictive measures adopted to prevent the spread of COVID-19 will be suspended until the end of May 31, 2020.
– The provision therefore includes a suspension of the running of substantive deadlines until May 31, 2020, which also applies to the four-month tolerance period in accordance with Section 57a (3) KFG. The characteristic of a deadline suspension is that a certain period of time (in this case from March 13th, 2020 to May 31st, 2020) is not included in the calculation of the expiry of the deadline, but rather this time is “appended” afterwards, i.e. if the four-month tolerance regulation according to Section 57a Paragraph 3 KFG applies and this deadline is after March 13th, 2020 expires, the days of suspension of the deadline must be added retrospectively.
Examples of such a tolerance period extended by the suspension of the deadline:
1. The assessment sticker is punched with 01/2020. The four-month tolerance rule applies and would expire at the end of May. Due to the regulation of Section 132a (1) second sentence KFG, the days of the suspension of the deadline must be added after the end of the suspension of the deadline (May 31, 2020). Of the four-month tolerance period (= 16 weeks), which began in February 2020, 6 weeks have passed by mid-March. This leaves 10 weeks to be added after the end of the deadline suspension, i.e. after May 31, 2020. That's mid-August 2020.
2. The assessment sticker is punched with 12/2019. The four-month tolerance rule applies and would expire at the end of April. Due to the regulation of Section 132a (1) second sentence KFG, the days of the suspension of the deadline must be added after the end of the suspension of the deadline (May 31, 2020). Of the four-month tolerance period (= 16 weeks), which began in January 2020, 10 weeks have passed by mid-March. This leaves 6 weeks to be added after the end of the deadline suspension, i.e. after May 31, 2020. That's mid-July 2020.
This deadline suspension is not relevant for vehicles whose sticker is punched with February 2020 or later because they are already covered by the extension of validity of Regulation (EU) 2020/698.