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<p>This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously
and remains committed to finding new ways to encourage payment of impositions and
to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase
in the amount of financial penalties collected over the last three years.</p><p> </p><p>When
it appears to HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) that an offender is normally
resident in another EU country HMCTS can transfer road traffic offence fines, imposed
by courts in this country, to other EU jurisdictions for enforcement under the EU
Framework Decision on Mutual Recognition of Financial Penalties (MRFP). The Framework
Decision obliges Member States to take over enforcement of eligible fines imposed
by other Member States’ courts, where the offender is resident or has assets in the
enforcing state. All monies collected however are retained by the enforcing Member
State.</p><p> </p><p>Where the offender is resident in a non EU country or in one
not included in the MRFP Framework there is no mechanism for HMCTS to be able to recover
the amounts outstanding.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to identify the value of
fines outstanding which relate to motoring offences for offenders who live overseas
without incurring disproportionate cost as this information could only be obtained
by a manual search of all live fine accounts.</p>
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