Improving Road Safety
in the OIC Member States
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Registration
The departments register all motor vehicles, such as passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles
and lorries, motor cycles, agricultural tractors and trailers above 750 kg. New motorcycles of
more than 50 cc are currently being registered although regulation is being developed for the
registration of new mopeds below 50 cc.
Since some years Morocco uses credit card type registration and licencing documents. The
documents have a chip on the cards containing technical vehicle information and information
on the vehicle and the owner like penalty points. Drivers must have this document on themwhen
driving the vehicle. The police forces can access the information on the chip by using a special
reader.
First registration
Around 163,185 new vehicles and 424,145 imported (second hand) vehicles were registered12
in 2013. The license plate stays on the vehicle during the entire life of the vehicle. The vehicle is
registered on the name of the owner or the holder of the vehicle. In the case of long-term hire or
leasing (i.e. longer than two years), the vehicle is registered in the name of the hirer or user. The
carte grise will then include both the name of the owner (the rental or leasing company) and the
hirer or user. A carte grise may list several names. First vehicle registrations and transfers of
ownerships are carried out by the DTRSR. To obtain a carte grise , owners or holders have to
provide details related to a buying contact, insurance and tax declaration. They also have to pay
for the document. However, unpaid fines may lead to a situation where vehicles cannot be
transferred, so that the centre d’immatriculation will not issue a new carte grise.
Amendments and changes
Around 379,000 changes are entered into the vehicle register every year.
Suspension
There is no formal temporary suspension procedure. Owners who wish to take their vehicles off
the road can request a cancellation of the carte grise. In such cases the vehicle will not be
registered as demolished.
Deregistration
Every year around 1,120 vehicles are deregistered, Deregistration means that the status of a
vehicle in the vehicle registration database is changed, i.e. from active into scrapped or
exported.
There is a statutory obligation to deregister demolished vehicles, but in practice this rule is
rarely applied. When a certified expert declares that a vehicle is seriously damaged in an
accident it can be deregistered. Comparison between the annual numbers of registered (almost
600,000) and deregistered (just more than 1,000) shows that, unless vehicles last for more than
12 Source DTRSR 2014.