The National Government announced, this Friday, that will close 40% of the country’s automotive registries with the objective of “Lower costs”in line with the plan “chainsaw” carried out as part of the adjustment of public spending.
This will lead to a 30% reduction in staff from National Directorate of National Registries of Automotive Ownership and Pledge Creditswithin “a voluntary retirement and early retirement plan”which has already been implemented in other areas of the State.
This was reported by the Ministry of Justice of the Nation, headed by Mariano Cúneo Libarona, through a statement, after completing the first stage of an audit carried out at the DNRPA.
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In the letter it was detailed that the process of closing offices “it will begin with those who have been operated on for more than 2 years” and then proceedr “with the closure of the remaining intervened ones.”
In Argentina, There are 1,557 automotive ownership records which, only in 2023, managed 3,059,285 procedures nationwidean average of 254.940 monthly. Transfers or registrations include automobiles, motorcycles and heavy transportas well as agricultural machinery.
If the percentage figures of the cut are, in fact, those announced, the National Government’s disposition could then be in the closure of more than 600 DNRPA officesdistributed throughout the national territory, in the coming weeks.
The entities, which operate as a public service but under private management, They have the responsibility of patenting and documenting all changes in the ownership of vehicles that circulate in Argentina.as established by Decree No. 1114/1997.
This aligns with the promise made by President Javier Milei himself to eliminate these organizations, as part of their electoral platform, where It was criticized that their holders are appointed thanks to the privileges of “the caste”and as stipulated in the sector intervention process, framed in DNU 70/2023 last December.
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Bye to the blue card and the expiration of the green card
In line with these measures, which are related to “eliminate bureaucratic procedures” related to the system, the National Government confirmed that, as of May, the blue card will be eliminateda more than important change for drivers.
This symbolizes that, starting this month, “any person will be able to circulate within the territory of the Argentine Republic with the sole display, physical or digital, of the green card of the car holder“.
It was also reported that “The expiration of all green cards will be eliminated”a document that, according to its definition, allows prove that a vehicle can circulate on public roads.
This is an identifier that includes name and document of the holder, as well as make, model, chassis and engine numbers of the rolling.
For the registered owner of the vehicle, It no longer had a previous expiration date.however It was valid for one year for people authorized to drive the vehicle but who are not the owner. of the same, an issue that will no longer apply.
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Digitization, lower taxes and “transparent” contests
Another resolution has to do with the digitization of all the files of vehicles, in all their types, “for cestablish a single and complete digital recordallowing the elimination” of existing ones in physical formats.
In turn, the ministry anticipated that they would propose to the governors “adherence to the agreement reduction of stamp taxes and provincial patentsto reduce the cost of registry operations, which amounts up to 70% of the total cost of a transfer“.
This, after the controversy that arose in mid-April, when it was not the provinces that increased the fees charged for automobile registration, but the Executive itself, in a resolution published in the Official Gazette. Later, they had to rectify and go back with the measure.
These are among other provisions announced by the National Government, including:
Implementation of a Transparent Competition Regime for prevent the hiring of people who have held political positions during the last 10 years, their family members and those people who do not meet the requirements of suitability and experience in private activity to fulfill such function An audit in the system of supervision of sectional records by the Undersecretary of Registry Affairs Elimination of monopoly of the Mint in the purchase of inputs Digitization of the police vehicle verification, on a joint agenda with provincial authorities and federal forces An increase in the amount that obliges the citizen to inform the State of the origin of the funds to purchase a vehicle
Finally, Justice indicated that “from this moment on, the second stage of the audit begins“which” will have as its objective review the general contract for the administration of Automotive Registriesspeed up the digitization y transformation of the process and sharply lower costs of transfers and/or patenting”.