The norm, in detail
Vehicle technical inspection: private workshops can do it, at free prices
Decreto 196/2025 (substance) + Decreto 139/2026 (ratifies) + Res. 32/2026
in forceNATIONAL
Market deregulation
Decreto 196/2025 lets any registered private repair shop run the technical inspection, with free pricing and CNRT control after the fact.
The other rules on this subject40
Mega-DNU 70/2023: repeals the Rentals, Shelves and Supply lawsDecreto 70/2023 (DNU-2023-70-APN-PTE)in force
The IGJ digitizes companies' financial statementsIGJ General Res. 9/2026 (RESOG-2026-9-APN-IGJ#MJ), Official Gazette Jul 2, 2026in force
What changed and who it applies to
What changed
Private mechanical workshops (registered, with an engineer technical director and equipment) are enabled to perform the Vehicle Technical Inspection, with free prices negotiated between workshop and user. Subsequent oversight by the CNRT. It breaks the monopoly of the VTV plants. verif Jun 3, 2026 ↗
In force
In force: Decreto 196/2025 + ratification 139/2026 (Mar-2026) + Res. 32/2026 (Jun-2026). verif Jun 3, 2026 ↗
Who it applies to
Motorists and mechanical workshops; it breaks the concession business of the provincial VTV plants. prob Jun 3, 2026 ↗
The norm
CORE rule: Decreto 196/2025 — extends the first mandatory technical inspection (Revisión Técnica Obligatoria) of brand-new vehicles from 3 to 5 years and deregulates the regime. Decreto 139/2026 (Boletín Oficial Mar 9, 2026): REJECTS the claim brought by the Cámara Argentina de Talleres de Revisión Técnica (CATRAI, the inspection shops' chamber) against 196/2025 and upholds it. Res. 32/2026 (Jun 3, 2026): National Registry of Shops + free pricing. verif Mar 9, 2026 ↗
Our reading
Textbook deregulation: it breaks a monopoly held under concession, opens the market to workshops and frees prices (R4 · opening and deregulation). It is worth more as a thermometer than for its size — it is the kind of rule that shows the program's deregulatory pace, and it touches provincial revenue (the national-governor friction is the vector to watch, R7). thesis
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Where it lands, province by province1
Buenos Aires The provincial VTV is a concession business and a source of revenue. Breaking the monopoly takes rent away from the province → national-governor friction (R7 logic: a condition the thesis watches). For the user/workshop SME: favorable (the market opens up). adverse federal-provincial tension thesis
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