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Published 30 October 2026, 20:39
abate — scrapping a car
The car is taken not to a government office but to a collection centre or a licensed dismantler. They accept it together with its papers, issue a certificate of destruction and send the request to cancel the registration to the IMT themselves; the cancellation then goes through automatically. A complete car is accepted free of charge, even if it is worth nothing.
Where you come across it. When a car has reached the end of its life, and when applying for the electric car grant, for which scrapping the old car is a compulsory condition.
It is no longer free if the engine, gearbox, catalytic converter, control unit or bodywork has been removed, or if other rubbish has been added to the car: a car stripped for parts is accepted only for a fee. For the electric car grant, the old car must be registered to the applicant, be more than ten years old, run on fossil fuel and be in the same category as the car being bought.