From July possible to spread payments traffic fines – nrc.nl

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Traffic fines that exceed 225 euros can be paid in installments on 1 July. Writes Secretary Klaas Dijkhoff (Security and Justice, VVD) to the House.

Now soon increase if payment is not

judicial collection agency can CJIB in vast majority of cases do not offer payment under the current legislation. That means people with payment problems almost always increases of 50 and ended up paying 150 percent.

There was already preparing legislation to allow installment payments. Now there is an interim measure that in July 1 let go.

Sharp criticism of judges

The letter Dijkhoff is a reaction to the sharp criticism from many judges on the extensive practice of hostage OM, particularly for traffic fines. Hostage taking is a way to force people to pay.

The prosecution was in 2013 almost 190,000 requests last year 130,000. Those requests, according to judges not indicate whether people indeed do not want to pay, or they can not. Yesterday dealt with the Amsterdam court first hostage requests ‘new style’. In those petitions motivates OM elaborate why it assumes that there is payment unwillingness

Read also in NRC Handelsblad. “OM now diligently with hostage request (€)

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