Exactly 20 years ago, on 11 June 2004, the Chamber passed the ‘Act to curb cheating with vehicle odometer readings". Time for a retrospective and for an appeal to our new elected members of the European Parliament.
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For Car-Pass, 2023 was an excellent year; the number of Car-Pass documents requested increased by 7% and we processed 19.38 million mileage records, which is an absolute record, thanks in part to the influx of data from connected vehicles. Our figures also confirm that we are all driving our cars more again (+15.4% over two years). Unfortunately, a number of blatant fraud cases also came to light again last year.
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More than 60 million used cars are sold every year in the EU and every year European consumers pay billions of euros too much because of odometerl fraud. The Belgium presidency is putting this issue back on the European agenda.
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The annual report of the non-profit association Car-Pass shows that 2022 was marked by a decrease in the number of requested Car-Pass documents but also in the number of cases of counter fraud, especially in imported used cars. Also positive was the increase in the influx of odometer readings, especially those of connected vehicles. This is despite the fact that some importers do not comply with their legal obligations in this respect.
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