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Moped and motorcycle owners will feel the biggest change in prices: depending on the class of the vehicle, their owners will pay between € 9.60 and € 14.70 for a roadworthiness test.
A biennial car with gasoline will cost € 5.12 more expensive at € 19.60 and diesel € 22.70, which represents a price increase of € 4.50.
Gasoline car owners will pay the smallest change, paying € 24.60 per inspection, about 44 percent. check the technical condition of the gas supply equipment.
Those who have car trailers (up to 750 kg, class O1) will pay 2.09 euros more, 7.30 euros for their technical inspection from next spring.
Calculation of new prices
The new maximum roadworthiness test prices were established by the LTSA based on financial data and estimated costs provided by the roadworthiness test centers and applying the formulas contained in the Maximum Price Methodology. Compulsory Testing of the Approved Vehicle (the Methodology).
The main reason for the increase in prices for mandatory roadworthiness tests is the increase in direct and indirect costs of roadworthiness test centers: staff salaries, energy costs and investment costs.
The price review also assessed the number of roadworthiness test procedures performed by companies in 2019 and 2020.
One of the factors that also determined the change in the prices of the mandatory inspection is the adjustment of the average time required for the mandatory inspection.
Average time costs obtained are based on data provided in the Centralized Inspection Database and the results of LTSA employee monitoring and measurement. This means that LTSA staff monitored the mandatory live roadworthiness tests and measured how long it took for the fitness to drive inspector to inspect specific classes of vehicles on the inspection lines.
Inspection prices will be indexed each year to changes in inflation and wages in the country.
The LTSA will establish and approve the mandatory prices of the fitness tests for circulation The Government authorized it in 2020. June 1 Before that, the maximum prices of this service were approved by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania.
LTSA, having received authorization from the Government and in order to establish transparent technical inspection services, based on costs and guarantee the required quality, in the first stage it developed the Methodology, which until now has not been available in Lithuania. . The draft Methodology was made available to the public and all interested parties, and comments and suggestions were available. After a couple of months of discussions on July 31st. The methodology was validated and prices were calculated.
You can find out all the prices here.
