Morocco’s experience in clean vehicles and improving the safety of professional transport was highlighted on the occasion of the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. In this regard, Abdessadek Maafa, director of the communication, education and road prevention pole at the National Agency for Road Safety (NARSA), said that Morocco has implemented a program to renew the road transport fleet, based primarily on the elimination of old polluting vehicles and improving the safety of professional transport vehicles.
This program consists in granting a renewal premium and another to scrap vehicles affected, he added, noting that these measures concern public services of public transport of passengers, public transport of people in rural areas, transport of goods for others, breakdown vehicles, and driving lessons (vehicles of categories C, D and EC), which meet the required conditions.
Maafa also said that this program prohibits the introduction of imported vehicles exceeding five years of age as stipulated by Law 52-05 on the Highway Code and its implementing regulations.
In this context, a system of control of pollutant emissions during the technical inspection of vehicles has been implemented, while limiting the emissions of certain pollutants from vehicles.
Since 2011, vehicles submitted for approval must comply with the Euro 4 standard, with the respect, in particular, of the emission rates of fine particles and nitrogen oxides, explains the director, adding that from 2023, the regulation requires manufacturers to produce cleaner cars.
From January 2023, only new passenger cars and commercial vehicles that meet the Euro 6 standard can be approved, he said.
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