Division of motor vehicles

The Vehicles and Maintenance Services Department is responsible for carrying out Ministry policy in all matters pertaining to motor vehicle and operating combined systems for reducing technical failures causing traffic accidents in the State of Israel. Within this framework, the Department is responsible for the following areas: mechanical construction equipment, imports, standards, manufacturing, trading and importing transportation products, certified imports authority, technical field and maintenance services. 
The areas of responsibility and authority are defined in the Transportation Regulation and in various legislation.

Connections between the Vehicles Department and elements outside the Ministry of Transportation:

Auto Importers Association – coordination and advancing professional issues.
Licensing Institutions Association – coordination and advancing professional issues.
The Israeli Garages Association – coordination and advancing professional issues.
The Appraisers’ Association – coordination and advancing professional issues.
The Chambers of Commerce Association – coordination and advancing professional issues.
The Israeli Consumers’ Council – sharing information, coordinating shared issues.
Israel Police – sharing information, coordinating and advancing shared issues.
Ministry of Labor – coordination and advancing professional issues.
The Israeli Standards Institute – certified auto laboratory, advancing professional issues.
Magal Afeka – certified auto laboratory, advancing professional issues.
Ariel University – certified auto laboratory, advancing professional issues.
Technion Research and Development Institution – certified auto laboratory, advancing professional issues.
IDF – advancing professional issues.
Ministry of Finance: Customs, VAT (Insurance Commissioner) – sharing information, coordination and advancing shared issues.
Ministry of Trade and Industry – coordination and advancing professional issues.
Ministry of Environmental Protection – coordination and advancing professional issues.

Unit Duties

• Vehicle fitness, imports and manufacture, tracking the development of vehicle technology around the world and adopting international standards as mandatory standards for importing vehicles to Israel, on safety, environmental and other subjects.
• Ensuring proper maintenance systems and professional supervision of garages.
• Supervising imports, ensuring quality levels of imports, manufacturing and trading transportation products.
• Periodic vehicle licensing inspections, professional supervision of licensing institutions, seasonal operations (for testing vehicle fitness).
• Certifying professional managers,. auto appraisers and auto testers, training and professional supervision of their work.
•  Importing, exporting, recording and controlling mechanical construction equipment.
• Ensuring an array of auto parts and transportation products.

 
Department Units and Areas of Responsibility

• Imports of vehicles, mechanical engineering equipment, and transportation products: 

1.  Imports of personal or family vehicles or vehicles intended for business use
2. Commercial imports of vehicles
3. Imports of mechanical engineering equipment
4. Import of transportation products (replacement parts)

• Repairs and engineering

1. Vehicle repairs
2. Vehicle registration
3. Change of vehicle structure
4. Authorized vehicle laboratories

• Garages, licensing institutes, manufacturing/trade/import

1. Licensing and oversight of factories (garages)
2. Licensing institutions
3.  Dangerous vehicles
4. Importer’s service garages
5. Recalls 
6. Stores
7. Production factories
8. Licensed service mechanics
9. Import of replacement parts to the Palestinian Authority

• Accreditation in vehicle-related professions 

1. Vehicle assessors
2. Vehicle examiners
3. Sales/purchase examiners
4. Vehicle brokers (for private import)
5. Results of the theoretical or practical driving test
6. Summons to an exam

• Appealing exam results
• Clarifications regarding licensing procedures for professions or letters of accreditation

• Safety systems 

1.  Proof of installation of safety systems
2. Refunds for the installation of safety systems