Tens of thousands of drivers are illegally parking in Bucharest every year. Why can't the City Hall recover 150 million euros from unpaid fines

The notes of finding not rendered by Parking have come to total over 150 million euros in the last three years, draw the attention of several general councilors of the Capital.

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The interim general mayor of the capital, Stelian Bujduveanu, announced that he has already initiated discussions with the mayors of the sector, for a unitary parking policy at Bucharest, writes Agerpres.

The general counselor Reper Cătălin Teriţă pointed out that the sum of 150 million euros would cover the value of the reconstruction of 30 neighborhood schools or the equivalent of a hot mass program for all the children in Bucharest. He added that Parking representatives do not know who the owner of the car parked irregularly.

“The contravention is something intuitive persona – it must be given to a person. In this case, you have a car. Moreover, it refuses for 3 years to sign a protocol with PMB for information communication, saying that this contravenes laws. Therefore, the people of Bucharest are widowed by 50 million euros.

Year by year. Contest of nonsense from a number of 25-50 thousand nonsensical ones who know that you have nothing to do, so they park without repeatedly paying the authorities, both from the PMB administration and from May, who do not find a solution. Here we are. Pleasant bankruptcy!“Tariţi wrote on Friday on Facebook.

USR representative Dragoş Radu said that this is 3,895,996 finding notes, totaling 156 million euros.

“And now the common sense question: if the City Hall, through Parking Municipal Company, is not able to recover these amounts, why would the others pay? Why should there be citizens who pay their parking correctly, when others park for free, without consequences?

A city like Bucharest cannot work without income. You cannot have asphalted streets, decent public transport, green spaces, lighting or safety, if you do not collect the money you do. And when millions of euros are lost by negligence or lack of will, we pay the payment note, the others“Radu wrote on Facebook.

The subject was approached on Wednesday, in the meeting of the General Council of the Capital, when the liberal Silviu Feroiu mentioned that the general director of Parking proposed to amend the mandate contract or to adopt a CGMB decision to solve the problem.

Bujduveanu believes that it must be rethought in accordance with the sector town halls

The interim general mayor, Stelian Bujduveanu, stressed that the parking service must be rethought in accordance with the sector town halls. He pleaded for a “Unitary parking policy”, to provide coherence at the city level.

“Less matters who gives a fine or who receives the money, but for this service to be delivered qualitatively. We do not have parking spaces arranged on the streets where they are not allowed to be arranged.

I propose that in the next period we will real debate the parking strategy of the municipality of Bucharest. I have already submitted discussions with the mayors of the sector. We will all meet, to have a working group formed, with a representative from each sector ”he said.

The municipal councilor Pusl Răzvan Niţu drew attention to the fact that, in the absence of a recovery mechanism, the finding notes will be prescribed.

“They are not fines, they are a title that attests a debt. In order to be a fine, it must be voted as such in the General Council, as a contravention. Today, these claims are certain receivables. They are liquid receivables and are also demandable. Their big problem is that I am not an enforceable title. In order to acquire the quality of enforceable title, you must go to court.

What can be done with the debts so that it is not prescribed? A notification to the debtor is sent to make the payment and then the limitation period with six months is postponed. The problem that rises here is that we do not know whose car is. The director (Parking company) wanted from the Local Police to make a protocol so that they have access to the database. Only his wish contravened other laws regarding the operation of the Ministry of Interior”, Replied the Liberal Andrei Badiu.

Gianina Damian, chief accountant of Parking company, said that the notes of finding cannot be considered certain receivables, given that the owner of the car is not known.

“We headed to court where we knew the user of the car. We repeatedly headed in court, trying to obtain through the court the owners of the cars, so that these notes can send them directly to the Dencians. There are variants I tried. We have in court won processes regarding the notes of finding“She explained.