Well because you can remove all of this for the inspection and then put it back on after, even if we ignore straight up bribery to pass the test, which still exists in places. It should be the job of the road enforcement teams to find these people, stop them and impound the car until it's brought back to a road worthy condition. And there are some European countries which are very good at this and if you drive with some wonky car that is clearly not compliant you will be stopped, and some where such enforcement is almost non existent.
> Well because you can remove all of this for the inspection and then put it back on after, even if we ignore straight up bribery to pass the test
I'm not talking (only) about after market modding, rolling coal, or xenon upgrades but about plain old unmaintained clunkers. This is deep in "bribery to pass the test" territory. and law enforcement isn't willing to do anything about it on the road even if spotting these cars is trivial. Look out for a smoke plume during the day, or for the rolling artificial sun at night.
And this is in the country which is the source of clunkers for everyone else, not the destination.
Many cars in the belt from Lithuania through Poland down to Romania are cars imported from Germany and USA with status "totaled". The reincarnation procedure includes deactivating and cutting off ad blue, DPF and other sorcery.
