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During the §57a assessment, the consumption data from real driving must be recorded. Affected are diesel, petrol, hybrid and plug-in hybrid passenger cars as well as light commercial vehicles registered for the first time from January 1, 2021. The data read out are sent to a central database of the BMK (Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology) and forwarded from there to the European Environment Agency. The aim of this provision is to transparently determine whether the consumption values measured during vehicle approval are being complied with.
Not mandatory
If you do not want to give the consumption data, you can refuse to read the data. The refusal must be actively communicated by the vehicle owner before the inspection and confirmed by signing the inspection report. “A refusal has no effect on the §57a assessment – you still get a sticker,” says Andrej Prosenc from the ÖAMTC.
Authorized workshops across the EU have been conducting consumption data surveys for a year now. According to information from the mobility club, the data for diesel, petrol and hybrid vehicles show only minor deviations.
Source: Nachrichten