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Certainly here in Austria, and perhaps in most of the other EU countreis, the registration of the car is linked to the owner, not the car as in the UK, which is the source of the problem I believe. So if I buy a new car, the registration number (and phyical plates, unless I want to replace the possibly tatty old ones) of my old car goes on to the new car, and the buyer of the old car transfers his number on etc.
Another consideration is that registration numbers are linked to my address, so if I move to a different registration area, I get a new registration number. The plates are issued by the insurance companies, so the existence of a plate indicates that the car is insured. Additionally, the insurance company collects the equivalent of excise duty on behalf of the government. Ergo, if the car has a number plate, it's taxed and insured. No plate means it's not road legal.
And you can have two or more cars sharing the same registration number, but you only get two plates, so only one can be on the road at any one time (the plates are designed to be easily transferrable). Insurance is paid on both cars, but only one set of road tax is paid (the most expensive of the cars). It's a good system which seems to work well.
Edited by Mike H on 12/08/2017 at 00:21
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