Morning all, I know there are some island folks on here, so my question is, how do I go about registering my Jersey car.
It’s not as straight forward as if I was from England.
I’ve got a headache
It’s a 2008 ford Galaxy
Any pointers or route to follow will be greatly appreciated.
Do you mean UK rather than England… sorry, I’m rather confused.
check this link…
Yes thanks, but it only describes what I’ve already read elsewhere.
Confused is an understatement.
I realize I need to get it to the imports ( where/ how), as I have owned it for years, I’m not likely to pay any duty or tax, I think.
It’s just that as I don’t speak much French, I need the exact route from someone who has already done this.
I can’t get to do this by myself, I’m old, I’ll be needing help, handheld help, kinda.
I had the car MOT done yesterday, first time for me that.
Next step?
You contact the Douanes office in the area where you live to obtain the 846a. You already have a CT (french MOT).
You will need to contact Ford France for a certificate of conformity as I seem to recall that the vehicle details are a bit sparse.
Then, if you have not been here long enough to be on the INSEE database, contact a third party who will collate & upload your dossier to ANTS.
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If you need a 3rd party for ANTS you can go via a local dealership. It doesn’t matter which as long as they are SIV habilité. They can then upload the file to ANTS for you. On top of the cost of registering the car, carte grise etc you may have to pay an administration fee. This varies, as there is no set amount, but most places ask for 25€ minimum to cover the time etc.
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Oh that’s the ticket, cheers guys, what a nightmare ay.
I have a carte sejour, been applying for my carte vitale for over 8 months, keep on getting the run around, they gave the wife’s no worries, but I need a social security number apparently!
Someone from head office is sorting it out for me now, I have an appointment next month, all my files have been lost, twice, so they are looking into the person who has been losing them. Lol
I’ve not long come out of open heart surgery, it’s been tough of late, on the mend, and pointed in the right direction.
Onward and upward
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You should register your car within ONE month of its permanent arrival here. It should be the first thing you do, before all the other stuff, unless you don’t need a car to get about.
You are resident as soon as you arrive here with the intention of living in France.
Because it can take months for you to appear on the INSEE database even after you have a tax or Amelie number you have to use a third party service but be careful as not all garages or other service providers are up to speed with imports.
Make sure that you keep the whole of the registration certificate.
jersey reg doc.pdf (804.4 KB)
jersey export certificate.pdf (258.6 KB)
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I never obtained a Jersey export certificate, I came here directly after surgery with the intention of staying, even though before, I’ve been back and forth to Jersey on a regular basis for the last 9 years. My car insurance has been costing me an arm and a leg, special underwriting. I suppose I’m not doing it the right way, for sure. But hopefully it’ll all be right in the end.
Do I need one from Jersey then?
Dear Mark,
I’m hoping for some advice on a similar situation.
I’m the owner of a Jersey registered car (Fiat Barchetta), but I live in Australia.
My son (USA resident, but has a Jersey driver’s licence) brought the car over to Brittany on holiday in November, but has now decided that he wants to stay for a year, and will use a French registered car instead.
I would like to sell the Fiat now to a local Frenchman. Will I have to do the registration process myself or can the new owner do it?
Thanks, Jeremy
If you sell the car to a French resident you will need to provide the new owner with a bill of sale from the Jersey address. The buyer will need the complete registration document to register it in France but you should notify the Jersey authorities that it has been exported, Details are on the reverse of the registration document.
You cannot import the car to France as you are not a French resident.
The new owner will need to notify Douanes of its import & pay the duty/VAT (about 30% of its value) & obtain an 846a.
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Wondering if the value is a scale value like a government value list or based on something like a French Glass’s Guide, or based on what you actually sold it for.
It can be any of those.
The Douanes site has this -
You have bought a vehicle:
The value used is the transaction price shown on the invoice, provided that this actually represents the sum you paid to the seller. In the case of a purchase from a private individual, the invoice is replaced by a certificate of sale signed by the holder of the circulation document and stating the transfer price.
The customs service retains the power to assess the declared value within the limits laid down by the regulations.
You have an invoice, the amount of which is contested by the customs service for the purposes of determining the customs value. In this case, the customs value will be determined according to the valuation methods used in the context of a vehicle transfer without purchase.
You have not purchased your vehicle: i.e. brought it with you when you moved here
The value is determined by reference to the valuation of specialised newspapers (such as Argus, Blue Book, Camping-car magazine, Officiel du Cycle et du Motocycle) if your vehicle is listed there;
or, if not, to the catalogue price of new vehicles or to the value of similar vehicles.
To these reference values, a fixed obsolescence coefficient may be applied, which varies according to the type and age of the vehicle and the quotation document used (for example, the value of a car taken from the Argus is reduced by 15%);
or an appraisal of the vehicle.
When the reference prices used are “price including import duties and taxes” or “on the French domestic market”, the amount corresponding to the duties and taxes must be deducted from the price used, according to the elimination coefficients available from the customs services (cf. Articles 32 and 33 of the Community Customs Code, available on the Legifrance website).
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Lovely little car… what year is yours??
Yes great fun car - I owned one in '98 and drove down France in it. No a/c which made for a somewhat fun journey in the South 
I also fitted an amplifier which managed to blow the speakers on the way down, so from about half way down the country, I was bathed in my own thoughts, and the engine noise 
Fond memories 
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Isn’t that what the soft top and speed is for 
And there I was thinking that soft tops were cars for tall people 
- Penultimate year they were manufactured. I’ve owned it since 2012, and only put 8k miles on the clock.
Do you have one?
what about COC and inspections?