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This type of businesses arrived to effect in 2012 17% of the repairs and maintenances, according to Ganvam

The posventa loses more than 1.000 millions to the year by the disloyal competition of workshops clandestinos

Editorial Interempresas11/04/2013

The crisis is encouraging the proliferation of workshops clandestinos, where the low price imposes on the rigour and the quality of the repairs, reducing the hygiene vial and generating to the sector of the posventa some annual losses of more than 1.000 million euros, according to data the National Association of Sellers of Vehicles to Engine, Repair and Spare parts (Ganvam).

Specifically, during the past year, around 17% of the operations of repair and maintenance llevar by pseudoprofesionales that act to the margin of the rules of the market, neglecting the technical criteria of quality of Industry and Consumption to realise this activity, breaking with Inland revenue and overlooking the environingingmental rules, of work and social hygiene, among others requirements.

Ganvam —that represents to more than 6.000 companies devoted to the maintenance and repair of vehicles, so many dealers and official services like independent— considers necessary to llevar a thorough restructuring of the sector, which happens, in the first place, for obtaining a real photography of the activity of the posventa in Spain.

According to the association, the starting point has to be the creation of an official register of workshops that allow to know for sure the number of current centres of repair, since although the figures speak of 45.000, the true is that it does not exist a reliable register that corroborate it. This measure would allow to inventory the workshops that fulfil with his legal and fiscal obligations, contributing to the location and closing of those that act in disloyal competition.

The confluencia in the time of the economic crisis, that has reduced the registrations in 60% from the beginning of the crisis, and the increasing antiquity of the park of vehicles —where near of 50% surpasses the ten years, what translates in fewer steps by the workshop—, draws a fall of the activity in the area of repair and near spare parts to 20% in the last five years, almost the half only in 2012.

The activity in the area of repair and spare parts to fall 20% in the last five years.

Ganvam proposes the creation of an official register of workshops that allow to know for sure the number of current centres of repair

An integral plan of support to the posventa

In front of this situation, Ganvam defends the set up of an integral plan of support to the posventa that contribute no only to achieve a redimensionamiento precise of the sector but also to increase his profitability.

Between the measures proposed, the association defends to intensify the controls of the services of inspection of industry, consumption, inland revenue and environingingment, four areas that city councils and autonomous communities would have to also head to the illegal workshops or clandestinos. “The legally established workshops bear with rigour these controls to the time that assist with frustration to the impunity of which act to the margin of the law”, affirms his president, Juan Antonio Sánchez Torres.

Besides, have to consolidate and promote initiatives like the one of the Law of hygiene Vial, that authorises to the workshops to give off of the abandoned trucks in his centres, as well as deepen in the liberalisation of the service of ITV.

According to Sánchez Torres, “in addition to the economic damage that generates the activity submerged of the posventa, this bad practice reduces drastically the hygiene vial, especially when the vehicles that drive today have already more than 30% of technological components that require of the knowledge and the specific equipment to llevar a good diagnosis and a correct repair; of the contrary, will be driving authentic pumps rodantes”.