A new controversy plagues the transport sector with the issuance of Law 2283 of 2023, which establishes a series of prerogatives for the development of the activity of the Transit Support Organizations (OAT), especially the Automotive Education Centers (CEA), however, in Article 6 of the standard there is a new requirement for the Automotive Diagnostic Centers (CDA) changing their rules of the game.
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The Law obliges Diagnostic Centers to grant, without extra charge, a property damage insurance for private vehicles to those who carry out their mechanical technical review.
“Automotive Diagnostic Centers (CDA) must take, with an insured entity legally established in Colombia and with freedom of offer, a mandatory individual civil liability insurance for private service vehicles, which covers material damage caused to third parties, without charge or extra cost for the user, for the validity of each one of the issued certificates”, indicates the Law.
This insurance must have a minimum insured value of 15 current monthly legal minimum wages (Smlmv) for private service vehicles and 7 Smlmv for motorcycles and the like.
«Automotive Diagnostic Centers (CDA) have the obligation to guarantee that in each of their establishments the mandatory insurance provided for in this Law is offered,» he says.
This addition of the paragraph to Article 53 of Law 769 of 2002 (National Land Transit Code) by not forcing the end user to pay the additional cost of this insurance, refers CDAs to pay 100% of the rate, which are concerned because of the effects that this will bring to their finances.
«They will even disappear since the high costs of the individual policy, when used for simple collisions, would cover the total of the little utility that the business activity has left,» says Gonzalo Corredor, president of Aso-CDA.
No insurance offer
Added to this, those who are going to claim what the norm requires, find that the CDAs do not have this offer that the law requires, because according to insurers consulted by this means, this type of insurance is hardly being evaluated.
«Until now, since there is no robust regulation on the matter, insurers do not have this service, for which CDAs currently cannot comply with this imposed requirement,» concludes Corredor.
Diagnostic Centers are obliged to grant, without extra charge, material damage insurance for private vehicles.
The basket of costs
Through a survey carried out by this medium with data from the Superintendence of Transportation, it is prolonged that the cost basket of Automotive Diagnostic Centers It is made up of five items in the rate of the mechanical technical review.
Between 50% and 70% of the rates are equivalent to the value of the service, to this is added 19% of the VAT value, $4,900 of the value of the Single National Traffic Registry (Runt), $7,300 to the National Road Safety Fund, and about 3.3% goes to the Control and Surveillance System.
For private vehicles, these annual reviews cost between $122,040 and $163,070 for motorcycles and between $164,502 and $237,700 for cars, depending on the age of the vehicle.
PAULA GALEANO BALAGUERA
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