Directive (EU) 2024/3237

What it is

to lay down new measures to facilitate cross-border exchange of information on road-safety-related traffic offences in the EU. PROPOSED ACT: Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: Directive (EU) 2015/413 on facilitating cross-border exchange of information on road-safety-related traffic offences (the CBE Directive) facilitates the cross-border exchange of information on road-safety-related traffic offences and thereby lowers the impunity of non-resident offenders. An effective cross-border investigation and enforcement of road-safety-related traffic offences improves road safety as it encourages non-resident drivers to commit fewer offences and drive more safely. The Committee on Transport and Tourism adopted the report by Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI (ECR, PL) on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive (EU) 2015/413 facilitating cross-border exchange of information on road-safety-related traffic offences. The committee responsible recommended that the European Parliament's position adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the proposal as follows: The amended text extends the scope of the Directive to apply to the following road-safety-related traffic offences: - not keeping the required distance from the vehicle in front; - dangerous overtaking that does not comply with traffic regulations; - dangerous parking in an unauthorised place posing a serious risk to other road users; A competent authority may first request access to the data relating to vehicles in order to determine if an offence has been committed. Where, on the basis of such data, it is established that an offence was committed, the competent authority should request access to the data concerning the owner, holder or end user of the vehicles. Member States should retain the relevant data elements in the national vehicle registers for at least 6 months after any modification of the ownership or use of the vehicle in question, and for no longer than 4 years . Where the Member State of registration or the Member State of residence receives a request, it should transmit the requested information electronically within a period not exceeding 30 working days via its national contact point to the national contact point of the Member State of the offence. Member States should decide as soon as possible, but at the latest within 15 days after receiving the request, whether they invoke a ground for refusal . In addition, and with a view to reducing the administrative burden and to simplifying the procedure of providing information, the Commission may introduce uniform templates . Data should be exchanged and accessed by automated and electronic means to make the exchange as simple as possible. Information letter on the road-safety-related traffic offences The amended text stated that Member States should ensure that in cases where the liable person is a non-resident driver who was checked on the spot in the course…

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