The EU proposes to crack down on cross-border traffic offences by making it easier to identify the offending drivers.

Closing in on reckless drivers

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The net is closing in on reckless drivers

who are used to exceeding  the speeding limit in other EU countries.

The offenders can now be  more easily identified.

The EU wants to create  a centralised data base

to make it easier to exchange information  on the basis on license plate numbers.

The state where the offense is committed  has the possibility to use this tool

which obliges the state  where the vehicle is registered

to share the information  needed to identify the owner

or the person in whose name  the vehicle is registered

The eight offenses concerned  include speeding, not wearing a seat belt

MEPs think the Member States  aren't going far enough.

For legal reasons they evaded  the crucial issue of sanction enforcement,

so applying them will be up to the country  where the offending driver resides.

We hope confidence will be put  in reports made in other countries

and that these could form  a solid and indisputable basis

for continuing the prosecution  in the country of origin.

I’d say that this last stage  is yet to be tackled.

The EP will take a stance on this matter  during the July plenary at the latest.