Of course, Norway will ban all new diesel and petrol cars as early as 2025. But vintage cars have a completely different status, and now the authorities are planning to relax vision requirements.
Already from the 20th year, cars are exempt from registration tax in Norway. And that's how it's been since 1 July 2019.
But now the Norwegian authorities are preparing for another relaxation of the 'veteran rules'. However, only with effect from cars that are 30 years or older.
Specifically, the Norwegian authority Vegvesenet now proposes to exempt rebuilt cars that are 30 years or older from the so-called exhaust gas test, which measures the car's level of pollution.
This is written by the Norwegian amcar.no .
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The reason is that today it is practically impossible for many of the older cars to meet the current pollution requirements.
However, older and rebuilt cars are not completely exempt. They still have to live up to the standards that existed for, for example, pollution control equipment when they were type-approved.
This means that a Norwegian must not just remove the catalytic converter from his 30+ year old car. If the car is fitted with a catalytic converter from the factory, there must therefore be a functional catalytic converter on the car in connection with inspection.
The proposal for the relaxed rules for the oldest Norwegian cars has not come into force yet. But the final hearing deadline is already 7 June this year, and the bill can be passed into law 'immediately thereafter'.
It looks completely different for new diesel and petrol cars. Right now, everything suggests that the Norwegian government will ban the import of the cars as early as January 1, 2025. Read more about it here .
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