GETTING your ITV for your car in Spain has always proven a bit of a nightmare.
The reservations must be made months in advance and the day of the engine review you can wait hours.
But what happens if you have an appointment during the national closure and your car is about to become obsolete?
It is not a simple task since the Road Protection Law punishes those who do not have an ITV (the Spanish edition of the CT) of a fine of € two hundred.
The Royal Decree 463/2020, issued over the coronavirus lockdown on March 14, refers to the suspension of administrative deadlines.
It reads: “The deadlines are suspended and the processing of the procedures of the public sector entities are interrupted.
“The mandates will resume when the royal decree ceases to be in force. “
This means that the 15 days of confinement, the police will not sanction the cars that surround with an expired ITV.
It comes after Andalusia, the Balaric Islands and the Basque Country ordered that their centers be closed during the entire blocking period, while other regions chose to continue their schedules or functions with reduced hours.
Asturias has also suspended its tests for two weeks while Catalunya has closed its ITV points in Argentona, Granollers and Igualada.
The rest of its stations will operate between 7 a. m. and 2 p. m.
However, controversially, ITV stations in the Valencian community, Aragon and the Canary Islands and Madrid are opened.
The other decisions between regions have a lot of confusion among drivers.
AECA-ITV, which oversees MOT at the national level, has asked the Department of Health to “immediately” suspend its activities nationwide in an attempt to spread the coronavirus.
The agreement estimates that the threat of contagion in the stations is “very high” due to the amount of other people they.
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