The Supreme Court ruling makes Veneto tremble. The protagonists are speed cameras and the thousands of fines to be cancelled. The supreme court upheld the opposition of a…
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According to 2022 data, out of a total of 2.7 billion in fines paid by motorists, 51 million came from Veneto and 16 were collected with veloxes. Treviso collects 4 million every year. All of this could generate a cash flow problem for municipalities, especially the smaller ones. “Since 2020 the ministry has only issued authorisations, considering the two procedures equivalent for sanctioning purposes”, explains the director of the local ANCI Carlo Rapicavoli to Corriere del Veneto. «The municipalities legitimately felt that they were in order given the indication of the competent ministers. But the recent ruling denies the interpretation always supported by the ministry.”
The legal back and forth
The case on which the Palace of Justice decided concerns a lawyer who was speeding at 97 kilometers per hour with the limit at 90 on the ring road. The justice of the peace and the ordinary justice had accepted the lawyer’s thesis on authorization and approval. The municipality appealed to the Supreme Court. The contested ruling made a distinction between the two procedures. “The approval does not require the comparison of the prototype with characteristics considered fundamental or with particular requirements, while the approval authorizes the serial reproduction of a device tested in the laboratory,” the judges wrote.
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