Requesting a vehicle to be taken out of service
If you wish to deregister your vehicle, you must request a decommissioning. This also applies to trailers.
Once you have deregistered the vehicle, you are no longer allowed to drive it on the road or park it in public areas.
You can submit the application in person or your representative to the responsible licensing authority.
If you do not have your vehicle scrapped, you can usually reserve the vehicle's license plate for later re-registration for up to one year.
Locally competent licensing authority
You can take your vehicle out of service
- if you intend to sell it,
- if you don't use it temporarily, or
- if you have it scrapped.
- if available: completed application form
- Registration Certificate Part I (Vehicle Registration Document),
- if necessary with trailer directory
- License plates
- if you apply on your behalf: valid identification document from your representative requesting the decommissioning on site. A power of attorney from the owner is required.
If the vehicle is scrapped, the following must also be presented:
- Proof of exploitation or
- Declaration of whereabouts if the vehicle is disposed of abroad
- Registration certificate Part II (vehicle registration document), if it has been issued
- Administrative fee: EUR 2.10 for deregistration of the vehicle via an i-KFZ portal
- Administrative fee: EUR 15.90 for deregistration of the vehicle on site at the responsible registration authority
There is no deadline.
As a rule, the processing is immediate.
Contradiction
Lower Saxony Ministry of Economic Affairs, Transport, Building and Digitalisation
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
