Ivan Vicario Martin
El new Historical Regulations keep talking. In this case it was on the day before the celebration of the 12th edition of the Classic Tenerife, a test that begins today the 20th with more than a hundred registered. Raúl Aranda and Rafael Fernández, president and vice president of the FEVA, participated in a talk-colloquium at the headquarters Royal Automobile Club of Tenerife (RACT), invited by its president, Miguel Hernández Calzadilla.
In it, the topic of draft of the new decree law on historic vehicles. Before a large group of fans and owners of classic vehicles, Raúl Aranda pointed out that “There is a global interest in preserving the cultural heritage of the automobile, including through UNESCO”. However, and given the obligation to create Low Emission Zones in municipalities with more than 50.000 inhabitants, the president of the FEVA indicated that it is necessary to “convince that these cars do not leave every day and even less so in big cities like Madrid or Barcelona”.
Furthermore, he wanted to highlight the importance of Royal Decree 1247 / 1995 still in force, which he described as “a fantastic law”, as it has allowed “Hundreds of vehicles will be recovered from scrapping”. All in all, for Raúl Aranda The time has come to change the regulations by a “simpler and cheaper. Because no one invested in a historical license plate”.
THE NEW REGULATION OF HISTORICS, WHEN THERE IS A GOVERNMENT
Regarding the new regulations, the president of the FEVA reassured by confirming that “There is an agreement with all parliamentary groups, everyone sees it as a friendly law, after technical approval and we are only waiting for the new Government to approve it in the Council of Ministers”. That is, there will be new Regulations for Historic Vehicles regardless of who governs.
In the rest of the European countries, The economic conditions to obtain historical registration are much more affordable. Because of that, “It is not surprising that the United Kingdom has one and a half million historic cars and in Spain there are only 50.000”, stated Raúl Aranda. The idea is to welcome "the French model, in which you have a vehicle certificate that is more than 30 years old, you go to the ITV and pay a fee of about 30 euros, without having to go to a prior laboratory, with a validity of four years and, in case that the car is before 1950, for life”. The director of the DGT himself, Pere Navarro, recently stated that The idea is to reach the 200.000 historic vehicles.
From LA ESCUDERÍA we can only congratulate ourselves for seeing that the new regulation continues its course and for verifying that, thanks to the work of the Spanish Federation of Antique Vehicles, will come into force sooner rather than later.
