And so what? No issue at all.
There is also: nulla poena sine lege
Again, you have obviously no idea what we're discussing here, nor have some interest in helping or providing relevant information.
Due cose sono infinite: l'universo e la stupidità umana.
This is a long thread but still it’s not clear what the rules are - here’s what I understand:
- if you an EU or Swiss passport holder, you must use that to enter the Schengen area. Even if you have dual nationality from a third country that is outside Switzerland/EU. Don’t use that to try to circumvent specific local laws, you may get into big trouble.
- there are some tricky laws on cars and insurance that affect you if you drive the car between Switzerland and the surrounding EU countries.
- insurance in Switzerland is attached to the car, not the driver. Make sure you understand the insurance situation if borrowing a car from a friend or family member.
- some travel insurance covers hire cars - but I know specifically that our household and travel insurance covers hiring a car outside of Switzerland, but not inside Switzerland (we are Swiss residents).
- There are additional rules in place to prevent car smuggling - ‘borrowing’ a Swiss registered car and driving it across the border, when you are not the owner - may cause red flags - or customs requirements. You can’t just tell them you ‘borrowed’ the car…
https://lenews.ch/2016/06/01/new-eu-…n-switzerland/
Yes, the OP is playing with ‘fire’ borrowing their parent’s car from Switzerland and then driving it to the EU if they are an EU resident. You can’t borrow a car from Switzerland then be a ‘tourist’ in a third country and expect to not have problems - have a careful read of the linked article… of course you can try to talk yourself out of it, but you can also be assumed to be ‘importing’ the vehicle, or even worse, smuggling it…
IF you hire a car in Switzerland it is not recommended that you drive it across the border into the EU. It is a better idea to take public transport or hire the car for the EU, in the EU. It is possible to hire a car in one EU country, drive it through Switzerland, then return it to the hire company in another EU country. It is generally not possible to hire a car in the EU and deliver it to Switzerland or vice versa.
Our local hire car company actually only rents to Swiss residents. They do not hire cars to tourists at all. If you want to hire a car in Switzerland and drive it into the EU you need to discuss that carefully with the hire car company to ensure you don’t have problems.
There where cases of Ticinesi students studying at university in Milan.
They were driving their parent’s car. It got seized at the border.
There was another case of a friend borrowing a friend’s car, got stop at the border and got seized.
There is a crackdown of smuggling and illicit export of cars.
Make us a favour and clarify any doubt.
Go to the border, cross it, then on the way back to Switzerland stop at Guardia di Finanza and ask: can I drive this car in Italy?
Then please film for us the confiscation of the car
PS And don’t forget to keep groaning at my post
Yes, the famous case of the son of the sindaco di Muaralto or some such:
https://www.varesenews.it/2012/03/to…abbando/94998/
Tom
Dude you totally missed your assignment. I mark it F.
If you claim there is a law you must cite the law. If you cannot cite the law it does not exists.
Logically and obviously as an EU resident (guy was living in Varese) cannot drive an non-EU car. (Exceptions apply)
A card? We are talking about transport vehicles. But let us assume it is a car, then where is the source of this story? You cannot make up stiff on the whim. And did you check that this is not simply yet another case of an EU resident driving the car from a non-EU country?
Export, would concern the law where it is exported from: Switzerland. This has nothing to do with the Italian Guardia di Finanza, import into Italy, use in Italy, and Italian law.
This incident is very questionable as the described use of the car is fully permitted and within the bounds of the (European) Union Customs Code . But any way, it is yet another case of an EU resident driving an non-EU car.
This is not true in general, and it is particularly not true for Swiss citizens.
It is only tricky if you intend tor drive a car registered in the other customs area in the customs area where you have your regular place of residence.
Important here is the coverage if you damage the borrowed car. This damage might be covered by your own personal liability insurance (Privathaftpflichtversicherung / Assurance de la responsabilité civile privée). Damages to third parties are always covered by the cars mandatory liability insurance (Fahrzeughaftpflicht/Responsabilité civile voiture).
Always good to know the scope of your insurance coverage.
This is an old, outdated news article. As said many times in this thread the relevant Article 215 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446 has been amended since then, and rental cars from Switzerland can now be used by EU residents.
OP declared himself as a non EU resident (I do not question the veracity of the statement). If he is a non-EU resident, than there is no issue at all with using a non rental Siws registered car for tourist use in the EU.
Once again, the current Art. 215 Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446 allows EU residents to use rental cars from non-EU countries. Once again, here the relevant part of Art. 215:
To be fair, OP declared himself as an EU resident in the very first post and the profile still says he's in the EU. His answer to your reply came across as flippant, saying he'd just enter Italy on a non-EU passport despite having an EU one. He doubled down on that in several subsequent posts, which is why people had the impression he wanted to game the system or dodge the rules. It was only in post #18 when he said he's NOT an EU resident.
It would all have been a lot clearer if he'd started with the correct info in the first post.
Thank you!
And where is the vehicle actually registered?