Rio extends warning-only phase and still has no date to fine e-bikes and scooters on bike paths

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Rio de Janeiro City Hall decided to extend the period of purely educational enforcement for electric bicycles, scooters and mopeds on the city's bike paths and has not yet set a date to start issuing fines, g1 reported. The preventive phase, established in a decree published on August 25, ended on October 31.

The deadline passed without the Registry of Electrified Micro-Devices (CADMICRO), announced in August, being regulated and available. According to City Hall, the system is still being developed by IplanRio, the municipal IT company, and involves legal and technological issues, such as compliance with Brazil's General Data Protection Law. There is no timeline for it to go live or for the supplementary rules that will guide enforcement.

For micromobility specialist Vivi Zampieri, the lack of rules to punish violations creates uncertainty. "In practice, nothing has changed," she said, arguing that the registry and procedures should be regulated before penalties are applied.

Data from the city's incident dashboard show that records related to scooters rose from 67 in 2024 to 134 in the October 2026 update. The dashboard, however, has no specific categories for electric bicycles and mopeds, which, according to the specialist, makes it hard to measure these devices' impact on road safety.

Under the August announcement, enforcement will be carried out by agents from the Public Order Department, CET-Rio, the Municipal Guard and the Transportation Department, and the decree provides for the use of dynamometers to check whether the devices comply with the limits for each category.