The Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) has announced that it will start a new program of ITV inspections from January of next year.

The project will allow the Traffico to check online instantly whether a vehicle has the correct certification. Prior to this inspections could only be carried out manually by checking the windscreen of the vehicle in question - assuming that the correct and appropriate licence was displayed - however this new measure will now mean that the information will be streamed online directly to each Guardia patrol car.

The system, which has already been trialled in Valencia and Catalonia for the last 18 months, uses existing resources to allow the Guardia to check the ITV status of all vehicles instantly by scanning their licence plate.

Just to remind you The running of English plated cars with no tax or UK MOT means any insurance is invalid. The vehicle can only be given a certificate of road worthiness ie MOT in the country of registration. In the South lots of cars are being seized and scrapped and the owners fined it WILL come to this area sooner than you think and rightly so. This is before any accident these cars may be involved in. Still you will be OK they will not catch you using the back roads and track will they ????? ::) ::)