Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA)- Federal Motor Transport Authority
Your central information service provider concerning vehicles and their users
The Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (Federal Motor Transport Authority)
- approves vehicles types and parts
- monitors the work of test centres for the periodic examination of vehicles and quality control at manufacturing plants
- designation of Technical services
- accompanies recall actions by manufacturers of vehicles and vehicle parts
- manages the Central Vehicle Register, the Central Register of Traffic Offenders, the Central Register of Driving Licences and the Central Register of Tachograph Cards (only in German)
- provides information from these Registers and
- produces and publishes statistics on the basis of these Registers and also about vehicle defects and goods transports.
- With these products and services the KBA makes an important contribution towards road safety, environmental protection and to the provision of information on road traffic.
The Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt is within the scope of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs