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To whom may it concerns,
The New Registration Tax Act came into force on the 1st January 2009. The new motor vehicle registration tax is based on the following: - The Value of the vehicle; - The length of the vehicle. - The combined CO2 emission level; - The particulate matter (PM) emissions (diesel only); One of the newly required values is the CO2 value. This information is needed for the Malta new registration tax calculation. UVIA have sponsored a number of back-to-back tests and negotiated with the ADT to determine an appropriate 'EU equivalent' CO2 value for vehicles imported to Malta from Japan. Importers who are members of UVIA may access that information for the purpose of completing the SVA certificate. Non-UVIA members must contact ADT to agree an 'EU equivalent' CO2 figure for vehicles to be exported from Japan to Malta. The Diesel passenger vehicle is newly required to provide PM value for the Malta new registration tax calculation. However, no agreement has been made on the scheme to calculate the Malta PM value from Japanese vehicle information because 1) very few actual export, 2) no public information to obtain Japanese PM value and 3) no back to back test was conducted nor planned. Therefore, an official European Driving Cycle Test should be conducted in Malta or UK for a Diesel passenger vehicle export. Please contact us before the official application if you wish to export a Diesel passenger vehicle to Malta. |
MALTA SINGLE VEHICLE APPROVAL (SVA)
INTRODUCTION
In order to properly control the quality of used vehicles entering Malta, the Maltese authorities have implemented a scheme requiring the inspection of all cars destined for export from Japan to Malta. This scheme is known as the 'Single Vehicle Approval', or SVA scheme. (Not to be confused with the UK SVA or any other national SVA scheme).
HOW THE SCHEME WORKS
The scheme works on what might loosely be called a 'type approval' basis. A representative vehicle is subject to a number of checks and inspections. If the performance and specification of that representative vehicle satisfies the requirements of the Malta Transport Authority (ADT), then a Model Report is created. If subsequent vehicles of the same make and model are to the same specification as that original vehicle, then it is assumed that they also will meet all necessary standards, as defined by the ADT. To check compliance of subsequent vehicles, their specification is compared with the original vehicle by way of cross referencing the key components and systems on the vehicle being inspected with the details in the model report. If inspected vehicles are found to conform to the specification of the original vehicle, then a "Certificate of Conformity with Model Report' is issued. All second hand vehicles exported from Japan to Malta must have such a certificate before they can be imported into Malta.
WHO IS RUNNING THE SCHEME
The ADT have contracted VCA to run the scheme and VCA is conducting vehicle inspections and issuing certificates of conformity from their office in Nagoya, Japan.
If you want to know more about the Malta SVA scheme, please follow the link below to access the information.