You can take your vehicle out of service

• if you intend to sell it,
• if you are temporarily not using it or
• if you have it scrapped.

If you have the vehicle taken out of service, the insurance contract does not end automatically. Rather, it is transferred to a non-contributory dormancy insurance for the following 18 months, during which you continue to have insurance cover for motor vehicle liability and partial casco, if you have taken this out. However, you may not use the vehicle on public roads during this phase.

If the vehicle is re-registered within the 18 months, the insurance cover applies again without restriction. For re-registration, you must apply for an insurance confirmation from the insurance company. If the vehicle is not re-registered within the 18 months, the insurance contract expires automatically at the end of the 18 months without you having to cancel it.

Anyone disposing of a vehicle must only hand it over to a recognized collection point, a recognized take-back point or a recognized dismantling facility. The last owner will receive a certificate of destruction for submission to a registration authority.

Vehicle manufacturers are obliged to take back all end-of-life vehicles of their brand from the last owner. To this end, they create take-back facilities either individually or jointly, either themselves or by commissioning recognized take-back points or recognized dismantling facilities. Operators of dismantling facilities may only hand over body shells to a recognized shredder facility.

Operators of collection points and take-back facilities, in turn, are obliged to hand over end-of-life vehicles only to a recognized dismantling facility.