I'm going to ask the RAC for permission to apply via the ADAC.
I will point out that I want to take the same vehicle (except older and thus less valuable) on the same route: thru Egypt.
And that their cost is much higher than ADAC's for exactly the same thing.
The RAC is a private company: owned by the Carlyle Group, which is an AMERICAN equity group. They are NOT non-profit, and not even UK based.
Carlyle bought the RAC from AVIVA in 2011, and I suspect the changes to the CDP were due to that. They want to make a profit and are not interested in providing a service for its own sake per se, especially not if it's a small group (I read in a post that about 400 UK CDP's were issued annually).
I think that there could be an argument made for anti-competition. When you register a vehicle as UK, then THAT forces you by the FIA rules to go to the RAC. So it's really the FIA that's at fault there.
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