Filenews 7 December 2022
An amendment to the regulations on motor vehicles and traffic movements was approved today by the Council of Ministers, thus creating a database where the history of beaten cars will be recorded.
As the Minister of Transport, Yiannis Karousos, mentioned in statements after the meeting, this way there will be information for buyers about the history of the car they wish to buy, while avoiding the phenomena of cars that were involved in a collision and were deemed unsuitable to be repaired and re-circulated on the roads.
"There are vehicles that are deemed unsuitable and compensated by the insurance companies and are sold and repaired and come back and circulate. With this registration, this phenomenon will be prevented and many problems and issues of informing the buyer will be solved", said Mr. Karousos.
As he said, under the new regulations, a central database will be created in the Department of Road Transport (TFT) and the obligation to update it will be insurers, damage assessors or repair shops. Failure to report the damage would be illegal, he said.
The damage that will be reported concerns damage from collision, flood, hailstorm, fire and any other incident. Damages will also be included in the vehicle registration certificate.
"In this way" the insurer who issued the current insurance policy for the vehicle, or the insurer who is responsible for compensating it or, as the case may be, the Cyprus Insurers' Fund, or the workshop that repaired it or the damage assessor should inform the TFT in a central database in order to record the history, record the category and degree of damage to the vehicle'.
In response to a question, the Minister for Transport said that this issue had initially been resolved with vehicles imported from the UK and is now being resolved for vehicles registered in Cyprus as well.
"Because everything will now be declared, anyone wishing to buy a vehicle will be able to use this database to see exactly the history and category of damage a vehicle had, he said, adding that there will be an obligation for insurers, damage assessors or repair shops to declare it," he said.
