TRANSFER YOUR BRITISH PLATES TO SPANISH (Matriculation)
Addresses:
D.G.T. (Jefatura de Trafico, Alicante) Office c/. San Juan Bosco 14, Alicante.
Tel. 96 514 5466 or 96 512 5355
SUMA OFFICE in the Town you pay your rates to.
I.T.V. Station Redovan on the Orihuela to Alicante road. Recommended as sympathetic to Classic Cars and all cars including kit cars have not been a problem.
Hacienda Office, Alicante.
Basic Preparation. All forms must be original plus at least 1 copy.
1. The original DVLA Registration document (V5) in your own name or Permanent Exportation Certificate.
2. Your Resident Card or your original NIE form or Certificate from Police.
3. Your current Passport
4. An original copy of your Escritura (House Deeds) or Notorised copy (these have no time limit)
or original copy Datos del Padron de Habitantes (Certificado de Empadronamiento) issued by your local Town Hall, remember this document is only valid for one month and you must have a Residencia or Contract of Hire or Electricity, Telephone, Water, Rates bill or receipt.
5. A clean and roadworthy vehicle with headlamps converted to dip to the right. Ensure the VIN number (chassis number) is clear and legible.
6. A supply of photocopies of all the above documents.
The ITV testing stations perform two types of test.
Inspeccion No Periodica – Is a detailed examination of vehicles which sets the details of your vehicle for future Inspections.
If you change your tyres, engine, lights etc., you have to go through this again.
Inspeccion Periodica – The routine bi-annual or annual test of vehicles (ITV) when it is due.
My Experience
I presented my car for a Non Periodic test at the ITV station at Redovan near Orihuela. The staff contacted an engineer based in an adjacent building who came to conduct an examination to ensure the vehicle was homologated with Spanish legislation. The examiner spoke English and the process was quite simple. The vehicle was weighed and measured. The VIN number was checked against the V5. Any receipt of ownership may help if there are problems.
I was able to provide a workshop manual for the vehicle that saved the examiner a lot of research as my car was 36 years old and not a model he was familiar with. He prepared his report and I was able to collect it the following day. Cost 90 euros.
I returned to the ITV station with the engineers report and presented the car for its Non Periodic Test. It passed and testing station retained copies of my Passport, NIE, Padron and V5. and issued me with a Tarjeta Inspeccion Tecnica de Vehiculos (Spanish log book). At this point the vehicle was identified by the VIN number. Cost 76 euros
I could now arrange the Impuesto Vehiculos or Impuesto de Circulacion (annual road tax) for the car. By presenting the Tarjeta Inspeccion de Vehiculos at my local SUMA office they were able to issue me with a completed form Solicitud de Matriculacion together with a Carta de Pago (Invoice) showing the amount I had to pay for the remainder of the year. I took the Carta de Pago form to CAM Bank and paid for my road tax. Cost 26.55 euros for part year only. Your Town Hall under current Spanish law may have waved payment because you have a Classic Car. You need proof but belonging to a Classic Car Club is sufficient. You do not pay to Orihuela & Elche but in Torrevieja you do, so check.
At the Hacienda in Alicante I was directed to Desk 26 to obtain a Form 565 – Impuesto Especial Sobre Determinados Medios de Transporte. This is a 3 sheet self carbonating form consisting of a white, a yellow and a blue copy. Cost 40 cents.
Once filled in I presented it to the Desk for Matriculacion and here the import tax was calculated for the vehicle. After some negotiation this was set at 230.40 euros and the amount was entered on the Form 565.
From here I was directed to a bank of ticket machines in the main hall to take a ticket for my place in the queue for Censos at Desks 1-6. Here my details were recorded in a computer and I was issued with a printed page of Etiquetas. These are personalized bar-codes the same as your Tax labels that you peel off and stick one to each page of the Form 565.
At a nearby CAM Bank I paid the import tax and they retained the yellow copy of the Form 565 whilst stamping and returning the other two pages as being paid.
At the Jefatura de Trafico in Alicante I ignored the long queue at Informacion and joined the shorter queue at Caja. (Note here that if SUMA did not give you a form Solicitud de Matriculacion then you have to queue at Informacion to get one.) Or you can down load 2 copies of Solicitud de Matriculacion www.dgt.es/indices/dgtHtm_Impresos_es.html form no.TASA 9.03.
At the Caja I handed the Solicitud de Matriculacion that I received from SUMA and paid the Registration fee. Cost 66 euros. You must pay before 12.15pm or you will have to come back the next day. I was given a ticket to queue for the documentation check of the following:
Passport
NIE form
Padron or Escritura
V5 or Permanent Exportation
Tarjeta Inspeccion Tecnica de Vehiculos
SUMA receipt for Road Tax (Impuesto de Circulacion)
White Form 565 with bank receipt
Solicitud de Matriculación.
My passport, NIE, Solicitud de Matriculacion and SUMA documents were returned and I was instructed to collect the Permiso de Circulacion the following day.
The next day I queued at Informacion for a ticket to collect my Permiso de Circulación from the same desk I had visited earlier. I collected the document together with my Tarjeta Tecnica de Vehiculos that was now embossed with the new registration number.
My final task was to have the registration plates made up. Cost 19 euros.
At every stage I had to produce one or all of the documents listed above in Basic Preparation and had to provide a photocopy to be retained, even when finally having the registration plates made up.
Total cost.
Engineers Report 90 euros
Non Periodic ITV 76 euros
SUMA 26.55 euros (part year payment)
Form 565 00.40 euros
Import Tax 230.40 euros
Registration Fee 66 euros
Total 489.35 euros
With some expense for visiting Alicante twice and making photocopies of documents we still saved between 200-300 euros in professional fees by doing it ourselves.
Finally - It was not impossible, it was not hard, and it was just something unfamiliar….. and if you have not informed the DVLA that you were permanently exporting your car to Spain before you left Britain then you must return section 11 of the V5 to notify DVLA of the export.
Original information by Bruce Rowbotham and additional information by David Hudson
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