Dodging a speeding fine from your summer holiday could now be a thing of the past.<br /><br />On Thursday, 25 EU countries started using a new system that makes fining motorists a lot easier.<br /><br />The UK, Ireland and Denmark have refused to sign up.<br /><br />It covers eight offences, including speeding and drink driving.<br /><br />Michael Jonniaux, a police commissioner from Brussels told Euronews:<br /><br />“Many countries refused to send us the identities of people committing offenses in Belgium and so it was impossible to obtain the identity of the driver.<br /><br />Now this identification can be done by the Belgian police as quick as our European colleagues could.<br /><br />We’ll have access to a European data base and so directly from their computers, they’ll be able to identify the offender. So it really simplifies things.”<br /><br />But due to the difference in penalty systems between EU countries, no points will be added to the licences of foreign drivers.<br /><br />And there are also no formal arrangements in place to force payment if motorists decided to ignore penalty notices sent to their home address.
