Identifying cross-border traffic offenders is set to become easier, and Finns approach the EP with a petition against a planned nuclear power plant.

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Their cars will be more easily identified  when they offend in another country.

The site of a new nuclear power plant  in Finland

is challenged in the Petitions Committee.

And a round up of  today's other news in pictures.

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.

More than two months  after the Fukushima disaster

the nuclear debate arrives at  the EP’s Petitions Committee.

At issue is the construction  of a nuclear power plant in Finland.

According to the petitioners,  it could damage local wildlife.

They believe it's contrary to EU directives  and await a reaction from the MEPs.

We hope that they will give a sign to  the Finnish authorities and this firm,

maybe a letter or an announcement  that they are worried about this project.

A representative of the company  constructing the power plant

was also present to defend its interests.

Political decisions pertinent to our project  have already been made at national level

So the debate here does not  threaten our project in any way.

After the debates the MEPs finally  decided to put the matter aside

We have to ascertain at which site  the power plant will be realised.

an association opposes the construction  of a centre for radioactive waste in Spain.

But here, the matter falls outside  the EU’s competence.

Rather than rejecting it  we're postponing the decision.

We'll be very attentive  so that when the request is made again,

we can check if it is  in compliance with EU directives.

Petitions to the EP can only report  a violation of EU legislation.

The timing of Croatia’s accession  divides Europeans.

Zagreb hopes to close the negotiations by  the end of Hungary’s Presidency in June.

But some Member States wish to delay  the end of the process by a few weeks.

After the EU’s green light, Croatia  will still have to wait 15-18 months

while its accession treaty is ratified  by each of the 27 Member States.

Monday evening, after a final meeting  between the Council, EP and EC,

the Eurovignette directive  was adopted.

The new law will authorise the states  to tax lorries for air and noise pollution.

Member States won’t be obliged to invest  the revenues back in the transport sector.

The Swiss solar-powered plane is on  show at the Brussels airport until Sunday.

EP President Buzek met the designers  under the wings of this zero-fuel aircraft.

Commissioners Viviane Reding and  Connie Hedegaard were also present.

Solar Impulse completed its first  international flight on 13 May

by touching down at the Brussels airport.