We have informed several times this year that on June 10, 2024, vehicles that have not had any movements on their account for years will be removed from the CEPiK database. In total, approximately 7 million vehicles disappeared, including tractors and agricultural trailers. What should you do if you removed an existing vehicle and you want it back on public roads someday?
We have already described the matter of the great purge in CEPiK several times and if anyone is interested in the reasons for such an action, we refer them to our previous texts (below). In general, the situation is very positive, because the records included the above-mentioned 7 million vehicles, which most likely do not exist or are not suitable for driving. Officials call such vehicles “dead souls” and they are equipment sold without a contract, scrapped outside dismantling stations, hidden in a shed, abandoned, dismantled, and used off public roads. These vehicles spoil the statistics in the database.
What vehicles disappeared from the CEPiK database?
None of the owners whose vehicle was extinguished in the system, as it should be called, were informed about this fact. This is because most of these vehicles have outdated data and sending notifications would be expensive and in most cases ineffective.
For those who are afraid that their vehicle has been removed from the list, transport departments have prepared sheets detailing the vehicles disappearing from CEPiK. In addition to the make, model and year, the registration numbers of these machines are also provided, so everyone will find their own.
In each poviat there are several, a dozen or several dozen thousand such vehicles (e.g. in Słupsk alone there were approximately 14,000 such vehicles). Unfortunately, these lists are not created alphabetically or according to any other reasonable pattern, so finding your car, trailer or tractor is not easy.
Many district offices make the lists public via their websites. It is worth emphasizing that deleting vehicles from CEPiK does not burden anyone with official fees. Cleaning is carried out on behalf of the legislator and is aimed at organizing the database.
Vehicles registered before March 14, 2005, which did not have a third party liability insurance policy for the last 10 years and were not subject to technical inspections, were removed from the CEPiK database. To protect yourself against this, you could make some move before March 14, 2024. For example, add someone as a co-owner, install a hook or simply undergo a technical inspection.
The provision did not apply to slow-moving vehicles and historic vehicles registered under the so-called “yellow boards”. For many users, the advantage of CEPiK purges was that a canceled car will no longer appear in any tables, so if we did not pay its third party liability insurance and were afraid of a letter from the UFG (Insurance Guarantee Fund), now we can breathe a sigh of relief. There will be no penalty.
What should I do to return the vehicle to CEPiK?
We have checked at least several tables with specific vehicles that have been disabled in the system since June 10. The vast majority of them are vehicles from the era of the Polish People’s Republic, and if they still drive on the streets, they are used more as historic vehicles used for tourist trips to rallies and rallies, or simply as a source of hobby fascination. These are all Syrenas, large and small Fiats, Warsaws, Żuks, etc.
The second very large group are trailers and agricultural tractors, which in this case can still exist and work on farms, only the owner, for practical reasons, waives third party liability insurance and inspections (e.g. the vehicle does not travel on public roads).
Either way, someone may want to return such a vehicle to the CEPiK database. How to do it? The matter is very simple.
– Vehicles for which registration decisions will expire will be subject to re-registration after meeting the conditions for admitting the vehicle to traffic in accordance with Art. 71 of the Road Traffic Law – written on the website of the city of Przemyśl.
– Vehicles for which registration decisions will expire will be subject to re-registration if the vehicle owner meets the conditions necessary for vehicle registration; related to: insurance and technical inspection of the vehicle (if applicable) – it is written on the website of the District Office in Mława.
– These vehicles can be put back into service at any time, as a re-registration procedure has been created. Even after June 10 – after concluding third party liability insurance and completing technical tests – such vehicles will be able to be registered again – explains Radosław Tęsny, head of the vehicle registration department at the City Hall in Słupsk, in a statement for Głos Pomorza.
To sum up: the vehicle expired on June 10, 2024, we can continue to use by purchasing third party liability insurance and performing a technical inspection. The vehicle will then automatically return to the CEPiK database.
Therefore, there are virtually no threats from the regulations in this matter. There are only advantages, because the owner of the vehicle who returns to the base will not be prosecuted for the previous lack of third party liability insurance.
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