• In December 2008 the Commission of the EU agreed to cross-border enforcement of traffic penalties.


• This means that your own governement, on request of a foreign governement, will enforce fines that you have caught abroad.


• Often this concerns fines that the foreign governement already has sanctioned you for, but that you didn't pay at that time. The amount of the fine can be ascended quite a lot.


• This agreement applies to all member states of the European Union.


• For the time being, it covers fines for four kinds of offences:
• speeding;
• non-use of a seat belt;
• failing to stop at a red (or orange) traffic light;
• drink driving.
• According expectation, the regulation will be effected in 2010, but will be applied retroactively on fines from 2006 on.


• On this website you will find the penalties of foreign fines in the most popular EU countries. Handy als orientation before leaving for a holiday or business trip, or to get an idea about the height of the fine when you (think that you) have been caught.

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