Errr...
...How, exactly, would "drink driving" laws be enforced using cameras?
It is clear that they just dropped that one into the list of "offences that are registered automatically using road-side cameras" in order to make it look like they weren't just after the money! (And it probably helps justify the statement that these are "the traffic offences which cause the greatest number of accidents and deaths on the roads.") Clever lot, these eurocrats...
The actual provisions are also a bit of a joke. It works like this: Camera in Member State 1 snaps incriminating photo of vehicle registered in Member State 2. Member State 1 requests information from Member State 2, which is supplied by return. Member State 1 then writes to registered owner/keeper in Member State 2, giving various details about the alleged offence and the amount of the requested fine. Oh, and they are supposed to tell that person how they can appeal. But "how" they can appeal is up to Member State 1... Nothing is specified about minimum standards of due process, or about adding points to driving records to get bad drivers off the roads. European roadside revenue collection at its finest!
--Gianni Foreigner
Biting the hand that feeds IT
