Ninety per cent of the objections lodged by vehicle owners who received fines this year for driving without insurance or failing to pay road tax were rejected, according to a report in Haniotika Nea. The result suggests that motorists who had previously hoped to pass unnoticed, or to explain their way out of the situation, can no longer expect to succeed. An interesting footnote is the fact that checks on whether a vehicle has an up-to-date KTEO test certificate can include certificates issued by authorities in other EU states.

From the beginning of the year around 300,000 “billet-doux”, as the Greek media like to refer to them, have been sent to drivers informing them of fines for uninsured vehicles or failure to pay road tax. These resulted from the cross-checking of data for 2025 and up to March of this year from the General Secretariat for Information Systems and Digital Governance (GGSPSD) and the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE). The most recent penalty notices following the electronic cross-checking were sent out to offenders in July, with a reference date of 10th March 2026.

The numerous challenges from vehicle owners who received the penalty notices were processed using artificial intelligence: the system developed by the GGSPSD consolidates the available data and the justifications presented for each case and analyses them in less than five minutes, presenting a documented assessment to the employee using the system. As a result, from the analyses which have been carried out to date, nine out of ten objections raised were rejected, as the justifications presented by the vehicle owners were judged insufficient.

Checks on KTEO vehicle tests
The GGSPSD is planning further extensive cross-checking to identify vehicles which have not passed the KTEO in the required time frame. The checks will be carried out on the basis of the data recorded in the information systems of the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport and especially the Technical Inspection Report for each vehicle.

The key information will be the date of the next Technical Inspection. When the Ministry’s records do not yield an up-to-date Technical Inspection Report, or a recognised equivalent from a foreign authority, then it will be registered as a contravention. The fine for those who fail to submit their vehicle for testing by the required date is €400.
(Haniotika Nea, 01/09/26)