When the Swedish Transport Agency has approved your application for verification of origin a decision is sent to you by post. You may then make an appointment for a registration inspection or an individual approval test with a vehicle inspection company. State your case number for verification of origin when making your appointment.
Swedac may provide you with information regarding which vehicle inspection companies are available in your area.
You may need to bring more documents to the registration inspection
The vehicle inspection engineer can access the documents you have sent in to the Swedish Transport Agency electronically, but you may need to bring further documents to the inspection in order to have your vehicle pass the inspection. Please contact an inspection company to find out what is required for your vehicle.
A registration inspection is conducted as follows
The vehicle inspection engineer
- carries out a technical identification verification of the vehicle
- checks the vehicle from the perspective of environmental and traffic safety
- determines the vehicle data registered in the Swedish Road Traffic Registry.
What is the purpose of the registration inspection?
At the registration inspection a number of technical requirements are imposed on the vehicle, among other things on brakes, exhaust emissions and anti-collision safety. The purpose is to make sure that the vehicle is adapted to Swedish conditions.
A vehicle with an EC type approval meets all of the technical and environmental requirements imposed by the current EC directive. This means that the vehicle can be approved in Sweden without any requirement for further documentation concerning the vehicle’s technical status.
If the vehicle does not meet the EC whole vehicle type approval, but has previously been registered in another EU country and this can be verified by the registration certificate, the vehicle is regarded as satisfying the technical requirements to enable it to be registered in Sweden, subject to the precondition that the vehicle (this applies to passenger cars, light lorries and buses under 3 500 kg and motorbikes) is of a standard design for the series.
For vehicles originally manufactured in a non EU country you may need to prove further requirements
The provisions of the above paragraph do not apply to vehicles that are
- designed for left-hand traffic
- equipped with speedometers with British standards
- manufactured in small series.
Contact a vehicle inspection company to find out more about the provisions that apply to your vehicle.
In certain cases, exemptions may be allowed from the requirements relating to technical equipment and exhaust emissions. The import categories relocation goods, inherited goods, own use and diplomat all gives some exemptions from the demands put on your vehicle at the registration inspection. Although you choose import as your category, the vehicle inspection engineer may in certain cases decide to grant the exemption of own use at the registration inspection. Own use gives some exemptions from the technical demands and a milder assessment.
If your vehicle is EC type approved, or of model year 1968 or older, these exemptions are not necessary at the registration inspection. Please contact a vehicle inspection company to find out if your vehicle will need exemptions or not.