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Scrap a vehicle and perform its final deregistration

You can permanently remove your vehicle from the register by submitting it for recycling free of charge at an official take-back point of Suomen Autokierrätys Oy. Passenger cars and vans must always be submitted to an official take-back point for scrapping in order to be permanently removed from the register.

At the Suomen Autokierrätys take-back point, you will receive a certificate of destruction once you have taken your vehicle there. The take-back point will take care of the deregistration of your vehicle. After the scrapping and final deregistration have been completed by the take-back point, you do not need to make any other notification about it. Please contact the take-back point if you have any further questions regarding the scrapping or final deregistration of the vehicle.

If the vehicle that is to be scrapped is not a car or van, you can also scrap it elsewhere. If you have scrapped a vehicle in some other way than through an official take-back point, you have to perform the final deregistration yourself. 

Do the following if you have scrapped a vehicle outside an official take-back point

  • Step 1

    Log in to My e-Services

    After identification, select your service role: personal services, acting on behalf of another person or acting on behalf of a company/an organisation.

  • Step 2

    Perform the scrapping of a vehicle in the Vehicles and taxation section

    Select Report the scrapping of a vehicle.

  • Step 3

    Approve the notification

    You can save the receipt if you want. You can also later check that the scrapping of a vehicle succeeded on the My Activities page.

Exceptional situations related to final deregistration

If your vehicle was destroyed in an accident or a fire, you may request permanent deregistration in My e-Services. You can also deliver the Report on destruction of vehicle (B144) form to the Traficom registry, accompanied by a certificate of destruction issued by the police or the rescue department.

If your vehicle was scrapped or destroyed abroad, you can request final deregistration in My e-Services. You can also deliver the Report on destruction of vehicle (B144) form to the Traficom registry, accompanied by a foreign scrapping certificate or an official report on the destruction of the vehicle.

Insurance companies claim destroyed vehicles and deliver them to Suomen Autokierräyts Oy’s official take-back points for final decommissioning.

Municipalities submit end-of-life vehicles whose ownership has been transferred to them to Suomen Autokierrätys Oy’s official take-back points for final decommissioning. If a vehicle whose ownership has been transferred to the municipality is not an end-of-life vehicle, it will be decommissioned.

Act on the transfer of vehicles (1508/2019)

Forms

If you are unable to use the electronic service, you can also fill in the pdf form Report on destruction of vehicle (B144e) and submit it to Traficom’s Registry at Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom, PO Box 320, 00059 TRAFICOM. For the report, you need a certificate issued by the party in charge of scrapping the vehicle or another reliable report on how your vehicle was scrapped.

Fill in the Report on destruction of vehicle (B144e) form and deliver it to the Traficom registry

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