If your vehicle has a foreign registration, you have to send us the
registration certificate for that registration in conjunction with
the application of verification of origin. If there exists several
registration documents, you should send us all of them.
If the country of origin issues registration certificates made
up of two parts or more, you have to send all parts to us. You can
tell if the registration certificate is made up of more than one
part by reading the title of the certificate. Directive 1999/37/EG
regarding a uniform registration certificate within the EU says
that
- if the member state only issues one part, the
title should read 'Registration certificate'
- if the member state issues a registration certificate made up
of two parts, the title should read 'Part I
of the registration certificate' or 'Registration certificate, part
I'. The second part should have the same title, but with part II
instead of part I.
According to the Directive, a vehicle is not allowed to be
registered in another member state if the registration
certificate is missing. If the registration certificate
consists of two parts, part I is considered to be the main
part. In those cases when only part II are missing, a
vehicle can, exceptionally, be registered in another country. This
can only be done after the country of origin has been contacted and
given its go-ahead. Such an inquiry can take different lengths of
time, depending on the country of origin.
Registration certificates containing the text 'non-repairable',
'junk', 'scrap' or similar
Does the registration certificate, or title, show that the
vehicle has been scrapped? Then the object is no longer a vehicle
and the Swedish Transport Agency will not try the application for
verification of origin. The same goes for objects that has been
de-registered with a Swedish certificate of destruction.
Swedish law dictates that the Swedish Transport Agency has
to try applications for verification of origin of vehicles. An
object that has been, by a foreign authority, identified as
scrap, is no longer a vehicle and can also not be
registered.
Please note! Vehicles with registration
certificates, or titles, containing the text 'salvage' are not
regarded as scrap, and can therefore be used in a verification of
origin.
See also the administrative court of appeal of
Jönköping's verdict for case 3783-09 (only available in
Swedish).