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<p /> <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 H M 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.</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>
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