Premium licensers are skeptical

Not all offices will close security gaps on time

Cologne. The German vehicle registration authorities are threatened with new trouble. The exemption that the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) granted to almost 100 offices will end in mid-April because they have not yet met the minimum safety requirements during the introduction of i-Kfz Level 4. The KBA even took more than 120 registration offices offline for the same reason. “We assume that not all authorities will have done their homework by the end of the deadline and that there could be further shutdowns of online operations,” says Florian Cichon, CEO of Kölner PremiumZulasser eG, which brings together over 60 registration companies have joined together to form a nationwide association.

According to Cichon, in the worst case scenario, the new KBA restrictions could affect up to 150 of a total of 412 registration offices. You would then have to process the approval processes by hand. Customers would have to appear at the offices in person. This inevitably leads to longer processing times for private and commercial approval orders. Another possible problem: Seven months after the launch of i-Kfz Level 4, only 43 companies and organizations have registered with the KBA as major customers in order to be able to use the federal software. In its planning, however, the KBA assumes 5,000 major customers in order to be able to finance the investment costs of 16.8 million euros for implementing the system. According to Cichon, it is all the more important that i-Kfz Level 4 works properly as quickly as possible and can be used by users without any problems. “Who wants to rely on a lame horse,” said the head of PremiumZulasser.