Michael Swift
7/11/2013 3:11:00 PM
In article <b47u2nFb1euU1@mid.individual.net>, tim.....
<tims_new_home@yahoo.co.uk> writes
>>>>>>>And we should be keeping the rules enabling us to enforce fines for
>>>>>>>traffic
>>>>>>>offences/tolls against foreign registered drivers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's the point, they are unenforceable,
>>>>>
>>>>>no they are not (they may be un-collectable, that's not the same thing)
>>>>
>>>> Near as dammit, I suppose you could enforce them if you spent a fortune
>>>> on
>>>> foreign lawyers.
>>>
>>>but that's the point of having an agreement on cross border collection, to
>>>save on such costs.
>>
>> Does that actually work, all I hear is the whinging about unpaid fines run
>> up by foreign drivers.
>
>It doesn't work because it doesn't yet exist.
>
>The point of discussion is whether we should opt into the pan-EU system
>that is proposed (the advantage of not opting in is, presumably, that foreign
>counties can't retrospectively collect fines/tolls racked up by UK residents
>when they are on holiday - but I don't think that we should advantage these
>people at the expense of advantaging foreigner truck drivers in the UK,
>especially as many EU counties have on-the spot fines that can't be
>avoided).
Sorry, it's the bit at the top you posted, 'And we should be keeping the
rules enabling us to enforce fines for traffic offences/tolls against
foreign registered drivers.', that confused me.
Reading that suggests to me that it's are already in place and not 'work
in progress'.
As long as everyone obeys the rules and doesn't do a France then I'm all
for it.
Mike
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Michael Swift We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners.
Kirkheaton We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
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