The court ruled the termination of Vehicle Registration as illegal

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адв. Васил Калибацев

Successfully bringing another case to an end in favour of our client, we managed to defend his rights from the vicious practices of the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior regarding vehicle registrations.

Why was the registration terminated?

On another occasion, we have had the chance to describe in our publication other cases where the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior can automatically terminate the registration of a car. In this particular case, the reason for the termination was that, according to the police, the car was not registered within 2 months of the acquisition, which was anything but a true finding.

The register of vehicles in Bulgaria is administered in an incorrect manner, and the terms are counted without applying the legal meaning behind these deadlines. In this case, our client has requested a change in the registration of the car he purchased on the 20th day of the transaction, but the Traffic Police have wrongfully refused to complete the registration. Despite that fact, the police considered that this leads to the conclusion that our client had not registered the car, because of which, upon expiration of the 2 months, the registration that existed has been terminated.

Thus, although our client had fulfilled his obligation to request a change in the registration of the car, which was not completed due to a mistake by the Traffic Police officials, he was also burdened with an additional problem.

Why is such termination illegal?

The legally envisaged measure for termination of registration pursues a certain socially significant objective, aiming to encourage citizens not to be inactive and to timely request registration changes in the relevant circumstances regarding their vehicles.

However, when the respective new owner has fulfilled his obligation, as our client did, and the change in registration is requested in a timely manner, he shall not suffer any sanctions or other measures for his behaviour. In this case, the reason for not completing the registration was that the Traffic Police decided not to fulfil their obligations because the car was not with its factory engine but with another one. While appealing against the termination of the registration, we simultaneously initiated another proceeding in which we cancelled the refusal of the Traffic Police – Blagoevgrad to change the new registration, based on the fact that the engine is a consumable, the number of which is irrelevant for the due registration of the vehicle.

The court’s ruling

The Administrative Court in Blagoevgrad accepted our arguments and found that the existing registration by the previous owner had been terminated illegally. Here is the court decision:

Thus, there are no more obstacles for our customer to be able to drive his  registered car again.

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