The official journal No. 34 has issued an executive decree that includes new conditions for practicing the activity of new vehicle agents, which limits the engine capacity of imported cars to a maximum of 1.6 liters, with a 15 percent quota allocated to electric vehicles.
This relates to Executive Decree No. 21-175, signed on May 3, 2021, by Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad.
The decree amends and completes some of the provisions of Executive Decree No. 20-227 of August 19, 2020, which sets out the conditions and modalities for practicing the activity of new vehicle sales agents, as well as the two terms of reference attached to it.
According to this text, which replaces the phrase “final approval” with “accreditation,” an agent who has legal personality can only obtain one accreditation that allows him to practice the activity and represent two brands for new cars, trailers and semi-trailers, and three brands for new mobile machines.
The applicant for accreditation must submit a copy of the exclusive agency contract or contracts that bind the agent to the grantor or donors, whose validity period is five years at least.
The decree also stipulated that the subscriber must have facilities for display, after-sales service, spare parts and storage, in the form of ownership or lease contract for a period of no less than ten years.
Among the most important of the listed amendments is requiring agents to watch over the encouragement of the use of electric cars in the assortment of their vehicles, according to the text, which added: “Agents are required to fulfill the orders submitted for electric vehicles at a rate of 15 percent of the total number of tourist vehicles marketed.”
The decree imposes that “new vehicle agents are not licensed for tourist vehicles, except to import cars equipped with engines of a capacity equal to 1,600 cm or less, which equals 1.6 liters ” Installed “through written means of payment” through banking and financial networks.
It also provides for the creation of a central national information system at the ministry in charge of industry, to be provided simultaneously with information related to the sales operations made by all agents and their authorized distributors at the national level
