Abolition of the obligation of car manufacturers to scrap used cars and 5 warnings to the Ministry of Safety/Are the interests of car manufacturers involved?
According to the economic correspondent of Fars news agency, from the time of the approval of the law on the regulation of cars on November 26, 1400 by the Islamic Council, until it was notified to the government on June 21, 1401, it took seven months, and during the past two months, the implementation of Article 10 of this law, especially Note 2 of it, with the serious opposition of the ministry silence confront with.
According to Article 10, motor vehicles, after reaching the age of wear and tear, do not have the right to travel, carry goods and passengers in metropolitan cities. Also, the government should provide the necessary facilities to replace used cars with new ones.
However, note 2 of the same article, which states that domestic car and motorcycle manufacturers must obtain an equivalent scrapping certificate from the scrapping center for the production of every four cars or motorcycles, despite the legal requirement, has not been implemented.
Opposition of the Ministry silence At the same time, this ministry has until September 21 to compile the regulations related to Article 10 of the law on the organization of the automobile industry, and naturally, without solving the current challenges, the details of the regulation are also in an aura of uncertainty.
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Two main reasons for the ministry silence To oppose this legal requirement is the lack of scrapping certificates and increased costs for car manufacturers.
According to Manouchehr Lagi, Deputy Minister silenceThe reason for the request of this ministry regarding the removal of the scrapping certificate requirement for the numbering of commercial cars and motorcycles is the lack of scrapping papers and the mass deposition of manufactured products in parking lots; Another point is that this issue, in addition to reducing production, increases the price of products in the market.
These statements are despite the fact that, according to the law, the numbering of cars and motorcycles is subject to the submission of a scrapping certificate by the manufacturers, equivalent to 25% of the monthly production, and the scrapping centers are also required to submit a scrapping certificate. in demand are producers.
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Despite legal clarity, apparently the ministry silence And the car manufacturers, through the Supreme Council of Economic Coordination of the Heads of Power and the Council of Ministers, intend to deposit an amount to the environmental fund instead of presenting the car scrapping certificate and circumvent the law.
In the letter sent by the Deputy Minister silence To the technology adviser of the Minister of the Interior in technology affairs, it is stated that in the absence of a scrapping certificate, the producers must pay the amount Mabefor it in the fund the environment deposit so that, based on that, appropriate facilities are allocated to customers who intend to replace their worn out car.
However, according to experts, these proposals mean stopping this process. The insignificance of the proposed amount and the impossibility of replacing worn-out cars with these amounts, the decrease in the value of the determined amount due to inflation and the possibility of diverting the fund’s resources to other areas are the most important reasons.
Opposition of the Ministry silence and car manufacturers, both of which are in the range of critics who are required to submit a certificate of scrapping, while the approval of this law in the parliament and notification to the government has taken place after numerous expert reviews, so the proposal to deposit the amount into the fund the environmentbypassing the law approved by the parliament and ignoring the ministry silence And car manufacturers are under the burden of responsibility.
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Despite the fact that car manufacturers have faced a lot of criticism from the traffic police and warnings about the lack of numbering of cars in the past months due to the low quality of cars and lack of proper standards, the insistence of the ministry silence It is strange to remove the requirement of the abortion certificate and to oppose the law that is aimed at health, safety and economic savings, and it has harmful results.
* Five cases of unfortunate consequences of opposing the obligation to scrap used cars
Examining the issue reveals at least five of the unfortunate consequences of opposing the requirement to scrap used cars by the ministry silence is mentioned below.
1- Unemployment and closure of abortion centers
The situation of car scrapping in the country and the lack of serious attention in this field in recent years, shows the chaotic situation of worn out cars and their scrapping on the one hand and its adverse and disastrous effect on the health and economy of the country in the current and future conditions.
The report of the Majlis Research Center in April this year, about scrapping and refurbishing cars and the resulting effects, shows shocking statistics and figures.
Based on this, currently, about 220 car scrapping centers are stagnant in the country, the scrapping of used vehicles has faced a serious decline since 2017, due to the closure of 85% of the scrapping centers, and other than the closed scrapping centers, other centers with They operate at about 30% capacity.
With the current situation and the insistence on canceling the obligation to scrap used cars, we will continue to see the closure of car scrapping centers in the country and job loss in this field.
On the other hand, the revival of scrapping of used cars, in addition to the reactivation of these closed centers, direct employment for 11 thousand people and for thousands more people in the fields of transportation.transferthe sale of parts, iron smelting, technical inspection and the like creates indirect employment.
2- Significant increase of used cars in the perspective of 1404
According to Ruhollah’s statements godlya member of the Parliament’s Industries and Mines Commission, although the scrapping process of used cars has started since 2005, but during the last 16 years, only 2 million vehicles have been renovated, while there are about 11.5 million vehicles, including 9 million motorcycles and 2.5 million The car is old.
With the continuation of the current trend, the number of used cars will reach about 4 million units by 1404.
According to the statements of this member of the Parliament’s Industries and Mines Commission, it can be said that only about 125,000 vehicles are renewed annually on average.
About 78% of all used vehicles are motorcycles and 22% are cars.
It should be noted that with the current method of renovation, the current used cars will increase by 62% by 1404 (the end of the 20-year vision).
In this context, different statistics have been proposed for used cars, Ruhollah godly Elsewhere, he stated: There are about 4 million used cars in the country, which will reach 8 million in the next year or two.
Also, according to the statements of Mahmoud Mashhadi Sharif, the head of the Car Scrapping Centers Association, there are about 3 million used cars in the country, and this number is expected to reach 8 million by 1404.
According to him, about 360,000 cars should be scrapped every year, but in 1998, the number of scrapped cars was only 8,000. At the current rate, it will take 1,000 years to finish these old cars.
From this sideAnother result of canceling the obligation of car manufacturers to scrap used cars, which the Ministry silence It has been mentioned that there will be a significant increase in the number of used cars in the coming years and on the threshold of the country’s 20-year vision.
3-wasted 16,000 billion tomans worth of gasoline in not scrapping used cars
According to the report of the Majlis Research Center, Scrapping every worn-out car in current conditions reduces gasoline consumption by 2,000 liters. If we consider the export value of each liter of gasoline at about 90 cents, its figure is about 1,800 dollars or 54 million Tomans per year for each car.
By implementing Article 10 of the Automobile Industry Regulation Law, if 300,000 cars are scrapped annually, more than 540 million dollars, i.e. more than 16,000 billion Tomans, will be saved in gasoline consumption.
godlyThe MP also believes that not scrapping used cars will increase gasoline consumption, which means four to five times the normal consumption.
4- Increase in billions of damages and lives due to air pollution
The increasing share of used cars in the capital’s air pollution, which is about 65%, indirectly affects the deaths of citizens. According to the World Bank report in 2018, Tehran’s air pollution caused 2.6 billion dollars in damage to the public health of citizens. Is; Also, according to statistics, the side cost of pollution in the year 1400 in the capital was about 60 thousand billion tomans and 41 thousand people in the country were victims of air pollution.
In the meantime, the side cost of each worn-out car due to pollution is estimated to be around 1000 dollars or 30 million Tomans.
5- used cars; The silent killer of car accidents
Another issue is the role of worn out cars in traffic accidents. Since, according to the traffic police, more than 30% of the country’s vehicles are worn out, these cars contribute significantly to accidents, deaths and injuries.
The per capita cost of traffic accidents for each person in the country is 5.3 billion Tomans. Although the authorities consider the contribution of the human factor and the road to be much greater than the car, but considering the statistics of more than 16,000 deaths in road accidents and the position of worn out and scrapped cars in traffic accidents, if the requirement to scrap the car is ignored, the ministry insists silence It can lead to an increase in casualties and injuries caused by accidents.
* Are the interests of car manufacturers involved?
Unfortunately, the existing indicators resulting from the cancellation of the obligation of car manufacturers to scrap used cars indicate an increase in air pollution, fuel consumption, traffic fatalities and injuries, unemployment or adjustment of the forces related to the car industry and scrapping and a large number of used cars in the coming years. this sideBeyond the opposition to the parliament’s resolution, it seems that the ministry’s disobedience is the case silence From the car regulation law, as always, the benefit of the car manufacturers and the sacrifice of people’s health and life on the one hand and the country’s energy and economy on the other hand are involved.
Ministry reasons silence which is accompanied by the approval of car manufacturers, shows that the positive effects of removing scrap cars from the production cycle and replacing them with new cars have not been considered; In this context, the synergy of various institutions, including the government, parliament, private sector, and trade unions, is necessary for the implementation of the law, taking into account the benefit of all stakeholders, especially the people.
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