Bmw Certificate of Conformity

What is the Bmw Certificate of Conformity (Bmw CoC)?

Issued by the approval department COC Europe Bmw France, the Bmw certificate of conformity is a mandatory original document, for request the registration certificate of an imported Bmw car. The French registration document for the Bmw vehicle foreign purchased of one pays of the'European Union requires the presence of the Bmw COC.

The Bmw European Certificate of Conformity

The Bmw certificate of conformity  is an official Bmw homologation document allowing the technical characteristics of the Bmw car to be identified via 52 homologation control points such as the total mass of the vehicle, the engine capacity in KW, the Co2 rate, the color, the CNIT, variant, version, etc.

Colloquially known as Bmw COC (Bmw Certificate Of Conformity) or Bmw European certificate of conformity, is a mandatory document used to certify the conformity of the Bmw vehicle with the French standards in force.

The Bmw France approval service has the obligation to prove that the various components of the vehicle (brake, gas exhaust, lights), braking, pollution, lighting comply with safety requirements. This process is called theserial certification.

Thus, for a Bmw car model to be authorized to be registered in France, Bmw provides proof of its approval by issuing the Bmw certificate of conformity.

The COC Bmw is assigned only to a Bmw vehicle represented by the 17-character chassis number (VIN) and has no validity date. Each homologated Bmw has its own document of conformity.

The COC Bmw is only possible for Bmw registered from 1996 with European type approval number. For other Bmws, the approval department issues an identification certificate issued by the manufacturer. In addition, for other non-European Bmw vehicles, the only document available will be a certificate of partial conformity or of non-conformity allowing the Dreal approval process to be continued within the framework of isolated acceptance (RTI) .

How to obtain the Bmw COC certificate of conformity?

The Bmw dealer can issue you with the new vehicle the original of the European certificate of conformity or COC. If the vehicle is used, the COC is not provided.

However, you can order the duplicate of the Bmw certificate of conformity from the COC Europe approval service.

Bmw certificate of conformity price?

By going through COC Europe, you can obtain the Bmw COC for 170 € including tax and the Coc is delivered within 5 days. The national certificate of conformity for Bmw cars (van or before 1996) costs 300 € including tax and sent in 20 days.

How to register a car from Germany?

The acquisition of a German Bmw car does not require a few additional documents to a French acquisition. In order to obtain the French gray card for a car imported from Germany, you will need to bring 2 additional documents, the Bmw certificate of conformity and the fiscal break .

There gray card application is done on site ANTS (National Agency for Secure Documents). They will ask you in addition to the COC of the manufacturer of European conformity and the tax clearance, to bring other supporting documents, such as the report of the technical control dating from less than 6 months, the foreign gray card, the driving license, a proof of residence, etc.

So the registration of a German or European car does not present any major difficulty. However, if you do not have time to manage the administrative side, you can appoint a service provider to take care of the registration of your car.

It is quite possible to register a vehicle from a member country of the European Union, but if you do not have time to carry out all the administrative procedures, you can mandate us and we will carry them out for you. .