Legality and nuances of issuing an electronic diagnostic card

What does the law say?

In order to find out whether it is legal to obtain a diagnostic card online, you need to refer to the legislation.

According to Article 17, you can undergo a technical inspection at any accredited point of the choice of the car owner. The place of registration does not matter in this case.

It is impossible to undergo a technical inspection without visiting the center.

The owner must show the operator a passport, registration certificate and vehicle passport. If documents are not provided, the employee will refuse to conduct a diagnosis. To issue diagnostic cards online via the Internet, the employee must organize the receipt of documents in electronic form .

Based on part five, a technical inspection is carried out after the conclusion of an agreement between the employee-operator and the applicant. However, it does not say about the possibility of concluding an agreement in electronic form.

Diagnosis is carried out by technical experts, and organization via the Internet is rendered impossible. Technical inspection is carried out using visual and organoleptic control methods. Technical diagnostics are also used.

Based on the provisions of the law, it is impossible to issue a diagnostic card via the Internet. Such a procedure, however, takes place. There are many sites on the Internet that provide inexpensive and quick registration through a diagnostic center.

Electronic diagnostic card. Everything you need to know from June 8, 2021.

June 8, 2021, a landmark date for Russian car enthusiasts. It is from this moment that the Federal Law of July 1, 2011 N 170-FZ (as amended on May 1, 2019) “ On the technical inspection of vehicles and on amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation ” comes into force. Thanks to changes in this law, car owners will have to undergo technical inspection according to new rules.

changes that the 2020 technical inspection law . For the most part, innovations in the law affect the responsibilities of maintenance operators, but car owners are not spared.

For example, paper diagnostic cards will become a thing of the past and will be replaced by electronic ones.

Diagnostic card in 2021

The concept and definition of “Diagnostic card” will remain virtually unchanged with the entry into force of the new edition of 170-FZ. This is still a document in which all the results of the technical inspection will be recorded. But if before June 2021 this document was necessary for registration of compulsory motor liability insurance, now it will become mandatory for verification. For the absence of “diagnostics” in the EAISTO databases, the car owner will be fined 2,000 rubles.

Until June 8, 2021:

diagnostic card - a document drawn up based on the results of a technical inspection of a vehicle (including its parts, items of its additional equipment), containing information about the vehicle’s compliance or non-compliance with mandatory vehicle safety requirements...

After June 8, 2021:

diagnostic card - a document in electronic form , and in cases provided for by this Federal Law, also on paper, issued based on the results of a technical inspection of a vehicle (including its parts, items of its additional equipment), containing information on the compliance or non-compliance of the vehicle means of mandatory vehicle safety requirements...

That is, with the entry into force of the document, maintenance operators will stop issuing paper documents, all vehicle inspection data will be transferred to the EAISTO databases. At the same time, the vehicle owner has the right to request a paper copy of the “diagnostics” from the operator.

The diagnostic card is drawn up and stored in a unified automated technical inspection information system in accordance with Article 19 of this Federal Law.

How to get a paper diagnostic card in 2021?

F3-170 new edition

At the request of the person presenting the vehicle for technical inspection, the technical inspection operator issues a diagnostic card on paper, which is certified by the signature of the technical expert who carried out the technical diagnosis and the seal of the technical inspection operator. There is no charge for providing such a diagnostic card. In the event of a conflict between the information on the diagnostic card contained in the unified automated information system for technical inspection and the information on the diagnostic card on paper, the information contained in the unified automated information system for technical inspection takes priority.

To receive a diagnostic card on paper, the owner of the vehicle, after passing the MOT, just ask the employee of the inspection point about it. There is no need to pay for this.

A paper diagnostic card is necessary for the driver only to confirm the fact of undergoing maintenance in the event that, for example, a traffic police inspector does not have access to the EAISTO databases. In any other case, information from the database will always take precedence over a paper copy.

In the event of loss or damage to the diagnostic card specified in Part 4 of this article, at the request of the owner of the vehicle or his representative, any technical inspection operator issues a duplicate of the diagnostic card on paper, for the issuance of which a fee is charged in the amount of one tenth of the maximum fee for conducting a technical inspection.

• Registration of a duplicate is paid.
• You can obtain a duplicate from any technical inspection operator (not necessarily where the car was inspected).
• To apply, you need to write a corresponding application.

What is a technical inspection via the Internet?

If a car owner wants to buy a diagnostic card online, he must consider the following:

• Find out about the company that provides the service. You should find out whether the site belongs to an accredited inspection operator. It is necessary to check the service in the RSA registry.
• Read the terms of the agreement. A diagnostic card is a document of strict reporting. It is drawn up in triplicate. The written document must be given to the applicant, but this cannot be done via the Internet.
• Check whether information about the diagnostic card is entered into the EAISTO. Lack of information is grounds for refusal to issue a compulsory insurance policy. If the site is created to collect funds for fraudulent purposes, the money will go in an unknown direction and the documents will not be drawn up.

On what Internet resources can you go through maintenance online?

Online technical inspection - the ability to obtain a diagnostic card over the network. Its number is registered in EAISTO. An electronic card has the same legal force as a paper document. The insurance company is required to provide its number. If a car enthusiast wants to receive a card via the Internet, he will need to consider:

1. Company reputation. To do this, you need to check whether the resource belongs to an accredited operator in the RSA register.
2. Terms of provision – execution of the document in triplicate.
3. The document must be handed over to the applicant. The question of delivery remains open.
4. Entering information about the card into EAISTO. If there is no number in the general database, then the insurance company will refuse to provide insurance.

It is better to sign up for an examination on sites with a good rating and reputation. The client should pay attention to the first five sites. The cost of an electronic service usually does not exceed 600 rubles. The certificate arrives by mail in half an hour.

The car owner can use the services of any accredited center. However, there are several nuances to the online procedure. According to the law, the owner must personally contact the service.

The document is transmitted in writing, that is, electronic transmission is not possible.

How to get a duplicate diagnostic card

To obtain a duplicate, you can use our online service, which allows you to create a duplicate card using the data you enter. In order to do this, you must register on the osago-to.ru platform or log into your account.

• Registration on the platform
• Login to the platform

In the list of services on the right, you can find the item – Duplicate Maintenance, then you can create a document. What are you getting? – The electronic form of a duplicate of the diagnostic card, of course, does not have legal force, but for an insurance company or other places this requirement will be quite sufficient. A duplicate is created using the data you entered, and our system does not check its correctness, so be careful when entering it.

I would also note that you need to know the inspection operator, as well as the inspection point where you had the inspection done, in addition to information about the vehicle. After formation, you can print a duplicate on A4 paper.

I’ll say two words about the form on which you need to print the duplicate. In general, the law does not stipulate what the form for a diagnostic card should be, so you can print it on any A4 sheet. That's all.

detailed instructions

According to regulations, purchasing a diagnostic card is prohibited. Only an accredited operator can inspect the vehicle.

It’s better not to look for workarounds and go through the procedure officially:

• Go to the RSA website;
• Go to the “Technical Inspection” tab;
• Open the “register of technical inspection operators”.

You must use the suggested filters and enter the name of the city. The system must find a service point with accreditation located in a populated area.

Select a technical inspection point and agree on a time to arrive for the technical inspection. An agreement for the provision of technical services must be concluded between the operator and the applicant. To do this, you need to provide a registration certificate and vehicle passport. After passing the technical inspection, the applicant receives a diagnostic card. You need to wait one day to transfer information about the diagnostic card to EAISTO. Come to the company's insurer and issue a compulsory motor liability insurance policy and conclude an agreement in the form of an electronic document on the company's website.

You can resort to purchasing documents only after the citizen is convinced that the site belongs to licensed operators. The operator must have an appropriate certificate issued by RSA. Otherwise, there will be no information in EAISTO about the diagnostic card. The database contains only accredited insurance companies.

Why do you need a diagnostic card?

The diagnostic card indicates that the vehicle has passed a specialized technical test. The performance of the product is examined using 65 indicators. The data is entered into a table on a special form. The law defines the validity periods of this document:

• 6 months for vehicles involved in passenger transport;
• 2 years for new cars under 7 years old;
• 1 year for other vehicles.

Before changes were made to regulations in 2012, such a coupon could only be obtained from the traffic police. Now the possibility of examination has been transferred to service centers that have passed accreditation.

It is important to know! The diagnostic card is used to issue insurance policies, both CASCO and OSAGO. It is necessary to enter information into the insurance database. After this, the presence of a technical inspection form is not necessary.

How to pass a technical inspection online?

1. Open search engines;
2. Find “online inspection or online diagnostic card”;
3. Open the first three sites, familiarize yourself with the services and conditions of receipt;
4. Find out the price for services;
5. Check whether the company is accredited.

According to the information on the website, you can get all the information without leaving your home for five hundred rubles. The site works even at night, and you can get the service at any time of the day.

The applicant must fill out an application and receive a card in PDF format directly on the website. Everyone decides for themselves whether to trust such services, but the company does not give any guarantees.

What is the cost and timing of the service?

The cost of services is from 500 to 1000 rubles. You can submit an application at any convenient time. If the service is provided online, then you do not have to send copies, but enter the information manually. The validity period of the card depends on the type of car and its age. If the year of manufacture is from three to seven years old, then the inspection is carried out once every two years. If the car is under three years old, then you do not need to get a card yet. If the vehicle is over seven years old, a technical inspection is carried out annually.

Execution of documents is possible only after concluding an agreement between the company and the consumer. Concluding agreements over the network is not provided for by law. Car inspections are carried out by competent experts. Since the entire procedure is carried out via the Internet, passing a technical inspection is impossible.

Despite the illegality of the procedure, the service is gaining increasing popularity among car enthusiasts, as it saves money and time.

If a driver drives a car without a technical inspection, he faces a fine of five thousand rubles. They may also be deprived of their rights for up to three months. All costs in the event of an accident will be borne by the owner. The owner will be at fault for the accident if he does not have documents confirming the good condition of the car.

What documents may be needed?

If you undergo a technical inspection via the Internet you will need:

• Passport;
• Other personal identification document;
• Power of attorney;
• Vehicle passport;
• Car registration certificate;

No other documents will be required. When applying for a card, you do not need to send other documents.

It will be enough to enter the data from the documents into the online questionnaire:

1. Brand;
2. Car model;
3. Car series and passport number;
4. STS.

When transmitting data, you must be extremely careful.

Recovery procedure

After making changes, the right to issue a duplicate is granted to any specialized center. The restoration procedure is simplified by the fact that the car owner does not need to return to the authority where the original was received. A diagnostic card can be restored by number not only by the owner, but also by a person holding a general power of attorney. To apply to Rosgosstrakh you must have the following documents:

• statement;
• passport or other identity document;
• registration certificate or general power of attorney;
• receipt of payment of state duty.

How can I obtain a diagnostic card online?

Each network user has the opportunity to receive a diagnostic card online without leaving home. There is no longer any need to drive the car to an inspection point . Information transfer is carried out remotely.

After passing the inspection, the applicant receives a document by email. In the future, you can use the diagnostic card to apply for compulsory insurance.

Stages of receiving a card over the network:

• Go to the browser;
• Go to search engine;
• Find a service that provides these services. It is better to use sites in the top three;
• View services and terms of cooperation;
• Submit your application;
• Contact the manager;
• Receive a screenshot of the diagnostic card by email.
• Make sure that the card is in the EAISTO register;
• Save a screenshot of the receipt.

ONLINE diagnostic card - a scam or not?

In order to obtain an MTPL policy, owners of cars older than three years must have a diagnostic card - a modern analogue of a technical inspection card. Such cards are issued by specialized inspection points.

Since the writing of this material, the situation has changed; carefully read the current updates, as well as comments from other readers.

If your car is less than 3 years old, it does not need a technical inspection.

I already told you how I issued an electronic policy. So, while filling out the information on the insurer’s website, I reached the “diagnostic card number” field and remembered that my car was three years old and it would no longer be possible to buy compulsory motor insurance without a technical inspection.

I had to look on the Internet for the address of the nearest technical inspection point. Yandex gave me a bunch of options, among which I caught my eye on sites offering to obtain an ONLINE diagnostic card.

This method of obtaining a DC, as a lawyer, interested me very much from the point of view of its legitimacy. Judging by the information on all such sites, you remotely “sign up” for a technical inspection, and the card arrives by email as if by itself. A very dubious scheme, but to punish someone for “recording on those. inspection" is almost impossible, that's why it works. In addition, you can always say that they confused the cars that passed the inspection with those that just signed up for it and, accordingly, the scan of the DC was sent by mistake. Try to prove the opposite.

I’ll say right away that I don’t want to argue about the benefits or harms of such a service. Everyone decides for themselves how to treat certain things, but you must admit that sometimes it’s very convenient to buy something without leaving home.

As an experiment, I decided to risk 600 rubles (about the same amount they asked for a diagnostic card) and check whether it was a scam or a really working service. Moreover, I thought, it would be good material for an article on the site. The mood at that time was quite pessimistic, so I immediately mentally said goodbye to the money and clicked on the big red button offering to start the registration procedure.

More on the topic: Fine for not having a compulsory motor liability insurance policy

A relatively simple form immediately appeared before me:

Having all the documents for the car at hand, I filled it out very quickly and clicked the “Submit Form” button.

After submitting, I was taken to the payment page. Everything is the same as in a regular online store - you need to enter the card number, expiration date, CVC2/CVV2 code. At the end, I was asked to enter a confirmation code from an SMS and my money “flew away” into unknown hands. The site informed me that the payment was successful and asked me to wait about 40 minutes. This would have been the end of my story with a bad verdict, but what was my surprise when I received a PDF file of the scanned cultural center by email:

Assuming that anyone can draw a document, I decided to check it using the EAISTO database (such a service is easy to find through Yandex or Google). To my complete surprise, the resulting design passed this test.

Without further ado, I entered the data of the new DC on the insurer’s website and... received the policy. I don’t want to argue with perfectionists who like to follow all conventions, but, in the end, don’t waste money. Moreover, this would not affect the purity of the experiment in any way.

This post will deliberately not contain links to services for purchasing recreational facilities online - you can find everything yourself. I will give only one piece of advice: pay attention to the presence of groups on social networks for such services and reviews about the work of the service in them. This way, at least you can protect yourself from scammers.

UPD: May 2021. Services have appeared that first send you a card and then ask you to pay. If the car owner does not pay, the card is removed from the EAISTO database. This is the most preferred and safest option from a fraud point of view.

UPD: May 2021. Recent comments and letters from site readers show that the number of fraudulent sites posing as online services for selling diagnostic cards has grown and grown exponentially. Be extremely attentive and careful, do not provide your bank card details on dubious sites, carefully check the amounts indicated in the bank’s SMS to confirm the debit. Instead of 500-1000 rubles, amounts of tens of thousands often appear there.

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Before ordering a service, check the site using the whois.ru service. Pay special attention to the domain registration date. The recent date, combined with a large number of “positive” reviews about the “long and successful” work of the “office,” should raise red flags. Below is a screenshot of the result of checking one of the domains. Judging by the comments left by our readers to this article, this service has been spotted as a scam.

Please note the registration date.

Remember that from the point of view of current legislation, the remote sale of “technical inspection” is completely illegal.

Having found a website on the Internet for registration of technical inspection online

What are the pitfalls?

If a car enthusiast wants to purchase a card via the Internet, you need to:

1. Before passing, get more information about the company that offers services. The service must be accredited for technical inspection.
2. It is necessary to study the conditions under which the service will be provided. The company must issue three copies. A written version must be sent to the applicant.
3. All information about the technical inspection must be reflected in the EAISTO. If the data is not entered into the database, it will not be possible to issue a policy.

When passing the technical inspection online, you must carefully study the instructions. The card must have an electronic signature and seal. If it is not there, then the document will not be accepted when applying for compulsory motor liability insurance. If there is no signature, then this indicates cooperation with scammers.

However, when undergoing maintenance, the motorist must remember that these actions are illegal. Car checks and card receipt are carried out at points with the involvement of accredited operators.

Algorithm of actions:

• Go to the RSA website;
• Open technical inspection and register of operators;
• Set filters;
• Consider the list of service points that provide these services;
• Select a section, company phone number;
• Discuss with the operator the date and time when you need to come to the salon;
• Wait for verification by an expert;
• Wait a day to transfer data to EAISTO;
• Take out an insurance policy with the company.

In order to avoid problems, it is better to use the official method of undergoing technical inspection. If you want to get a card, it is better to use a service that provides these services. You need to make sure that the resource is licensed, and all information will be transferred to EAISTO. If the company has not passed accreditation, then you may be left without funds and a diagnostic card.

Rules for purchasing a vehicle inspection via the Internet - instructions

When undergoing maintenance online in Moscow or another city, it is important to pay utmost attention and strictly follow the instructions. It is important that the diagnostic card has an electronic seal and signature. Otherwise, the document has no legal force, and the insurance company will not accept the paper when applying for compulsory motor liability insurance. In addition, the absence of an electronic signature indicates cooperation with scammers.

Before passing the technical inspection online, the driver must once again remember that this action is illegal. The machine is checked and a diagnostic card is obtained only at special points with the involvement of accredited operators.

The algorithm for a car owner’s actions when passing a technical inspection is as follows (official version):

1. We go to the RSA website, enter the technical inspection section and click on the section where the register of operators is listed. For convenience, we use the provided filters (search by city or address).
2. We study the list of maintenance points that are accredited and are ready to perform the necessary work in the city of interest.
3. We select the maintenance section among the results obtained, dial the suggested telephone number and discuss issues of future vehicle inspection. The operator sets the date and time when you need to come for maintenance.
4. We draw up an agreement with the operator describing the conditions and results of the services provided. Here we hand over your personal passport and paper for the car (PTS or STS).
5. We wait until the experts check the car, after which we receive a diagnostic card.
6. We wait a day (no more) until the data on the inspection performed reaches the EAISTO.
7. We go to the office of the insurance company and issue an MTPL or insurance policy electronically.

To avoid problems, it is better to choose the official method of passing the technical inspection (the one described above). If you want to get a diagnostic card online, you can use one of the sites that provides such a service. The main thing is to make sure that the resource cooperates with a licensed service, and information about the technical inspection will be reflected in the EAISTO. Otherwise, you may lose money and be left without a technical inspection.

To obtain a diagnostic card via the Internet, we take the following steps:

1. We enter the browser and go to any search engine.
2. We find a site that provides the service of interest. It is better to choose services that are listed in the top three by the search engine.
3. We study the terms of cooperation and the cost of services. To clarify unclear points, we call a resource employee and close the “blank spots”.
4. We leave a request on the selected resource. After receiving the information, information about the car is sent to the service station.
5. We are waiting for the site worker to call and inform about the details of cooperation. As a rule, this happens within 10-15 minutes.
6. We receive a screenshot of the diagnostic card to the specified mailbox. We check that the document contains the correct information about the car and the inspection number.
7. We make sure that the diagnostic card received via the Internet is reflected in the general register of EAISTO. This is enough to be confident that the procedure will be successful.
8. We take a screenshot of the payment receipt (just in case).

On average, the price of the service is 500-800 rubles, and the application is available 24 hours a day

Is this procedure legal?

Based on regulatory documents and current legislation, we can conclude that the procedure is illegal. Moreover, purchasing a card is prohibited.

Technical inspection should be organized only at special points. The procedure itself is carried out by experts who have been accredited and received a license to carry out technical work.

There is no need to take risks and turn to online services to save money and time. It is better to undergo a technical inspection officially. After the procedure, the owner will receive a diagnostic card in person. All data will be recorded in EAISTO within one day . After this, you can contact the insurance company to apply for a compulsory motor liability insurance policy. There are several legal ways to obtain documents: via the Internet and in person in the office.