Your car registration may be digital in the future
If you own a car, this will be relevant to you: The European Commission wants to overhaul the EU's road safety and vehicle registration rules. The most immediate impact for drivers is that vehicle registration documents would be digital in future. In place of paper certificates, mobile registration docs would be issued that could be stored in a digital wallet.
The Commission says that digitalisation will improve data management and lower costs. It also plans to tighten regulations for vehicle safety tests, including introducing technical inspections for electric vehicles, implementing new emissions testing, and recording odometer readings in national databases.
If the measures succeed in helping to identify cars not meeting emissions standards, or with other technical problems, it could amount to thousands of lives saved.
According to Eurostat, more than 20,000 people are killed in road accidents in Europe each year. The European Environment Agency estimates that more than 300,000 people die due to air pollution annually.