Registering a second-hand car in Romania

The newly-installed minister of environment in the Government of Romania, Nicolae Nemirschi, does not agree to eliminate the tax of car registration (taxa de prima inmatriculare), for Romania should not turn into a car graveyard of Europe. The phenomenon began after 1990, when many citizens would buy second-hand cars especially from Germany and has increased in intensity with the aderation of Romania to the European Union in 2007. In order to increase the sales of Dacia cars, the romanian brand, and to avoid the pollution that second-hand cars would give, the Gouvernmnet has set up the disputed tax.

Nicolae Nemirschi has stated that the qualities of a car should be in the level of exhaust release and not in its "age". The minister has proposed a plan similar to that applied in many european countries: there should be created a number of "rings" surrounding the big cities, and the access towards downtown should be restricted more and more, depending of the level of car emission control.

It is now left to the citizens to see if the project should work or not.