Did you catch a speed camera? The Ministry of Infrastructure is planning additional penalties

The Ministry of Infrastructure wants to improve the law enforcement system registered by speed cameras. The assumptions of the project in this matter were published on Monday in the list of legislative works of the government. They are to be introduced, among others Additional penalties for failing to collect official correspondence.

The Ministry of Infrastructure, responsible for the development and submission of a project, emphasized that the purpose of the amendment of the road traffic law and some other acts is to increase the effectiveness of the speed camera system, an important element of supervision over compliance with road traffic regulations. The designed regulations are to improve the prosecution of offenses committed by drivers – including those who temporarily stay in Poland or do not have a permanent residence or stay, including drivers from outside the EU.

“This need results from the fact of a constantly developing road network in Poland, a systematic increase in the number of vehicles and the persistent high number of road accidents caused by non -compliance by drivers in force on public roads,” reads.

One of the assumptions of the project is, among others Defining the regulations by determining the conditions for recognizing by the owner (owner) the obligation to indicate who drove the vehicle at a designated time, as effective. It will be necessary to indicate the data of the person who drove the vehicle, including his name and surname, address of residence, as well as obtaining confirmation of driving at the time of registered violation by a speed camera by the indicated person as a driver and submitting by that person a declaration of consent to the acceptance of the penalty or refuse to accept it.

A list of vehicles, which were committed by traffic rules, revealed by means of recording devices, and explanatory actions did not lead to the punishment of the perpetrator of the violation or violation, was also introduced.

It is also possible to stop the registration certificate of the vehicle placed in the list and registered in the country or removing the vehicle at the owner's expense to the parking lot, when such a vehicle is registered outside the Republic of Poland, unless a deposit is paid in the amount responsible for the amount of the fine for the offense.

The ministry also wants the Road Transport Inspection to receive the rights of a public prosecutor in cases of offenses regarding the owner or vehicle owner of the person to whom he was entrusted. He justified the need for a designed change that some courts issue decisions refusing to initiate such matters, taking the position that the Chief Road Transport Inspectorate has no prosecutor's status in such matters or initiated cases for this reason.

“In the current legal status, there are no legal tools that would allow effective enforcement of liability for offenses committed to ignoring persons sent by Canard (automatic supervision center for road traffic – PAP) calls to indicate the driver of the vehicle and consciously avoiding responsibility for the violation” – we read.

In the Act, the Code of Conduct in cases of offenses The ministry plans to introduce additional order penalties that may be imposed for the lack of response to official correspondence or its failure.

The ministry also wants to introduce mechanisms motivating the perpetrators revealed by speed camera of offenses for quick settlement. With immediately paying the mandate, the perpetrator could pay a lower fine. The amount of the fine is to be 25 percent lower, if the driver of the vehicle “with the help of an eBOK authority reveals his personal data, accepts a penalty and a fine within 14 days of receiving correspondence.”

The catalog of cases in which the interrogation of a person for whom there is a reasonable basis for drawing up a request for punishment is to be extended – “about the case when the explanatory actions are carried out in a correspondence mode and the case concerns an offense revealed by means of a recording device.”

The planned date of adopting the project by the Council of Ministers is the fourth quarter of 2025.

According to the ministry, in 2023, as part of inspections carried out using registration devices operated by the Chief Road Transport Inspector, over 985,000 were identified. violations of traffic rules.

“In relation to approx. 440,000 cases, the perpetrators avoided responsibility for offenses, which is 44.6 percent of cases (over 330,000 cases were time -barred, and over 108,000 cases were ineffectively completed, because they concerned violations of vehicles committed with vehicles registered abroad). In 2024, more than 1,169,522 violations of road traffic regulations were identified. The current approach, it is assumed that in 2025 a similar number of cases will be barred as in 2024 ” – we read.

The ministry also reported that Canard carries out traffic control with the help of 671 stationary recording devices in 600 locations, including: 474 stationary speed cameras (point measurement), 71 devices for segmental medium speed measurement, 50 ride recorders at a red light, 5 ride recorders on red light on railroad crossings and 39 mobile devices and 39 mobile devices and 39 mobile devices and 39 mobile devices registration, installed in unmarked vehicles, etc. (PAP)

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