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SPARKS Project

SPARKS Project. Nick Lester Director of Transport, Environment & Planning London Councils. What is SPARKS Project?. Programme created by London’s Enforcement Task Force London Councils Transport for London Metropolitan and City of London Police DVLA Department for Transport

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SPARKS Project

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  1. SPARKS Project Nick Lester Director of Transport, Environment & Planning London Councils

  2. What is SPARKS Project? • Programme created by London’s Enforcement Task Force • London Councils • Transport for London • Metropolitan and City of London Police • DVLA • Department for Transport • British Parking Association

  3. European Partners • VNG (Netherlands) • VVSG (Belgium) • Local Councils Association (Malta) • Aragon & Valencia Regions (Spain) • Lazio Region (Italy) • PSI GmbH (Germany)

  4. + Legal Research Partners • Lawyers from • UK • France • Germany • Italy • Netherlands

  5. Objective of SPARKS To enable the civil enforcement of traffic regulations to be equally effective against all vehicles irrespective of nationality

  6. Civil Enforcement? • Local Authority traffic law enforcement on a civil basis includes: • Parking and stopping regulation • One way streets • Box junctions • Weight and size limits • Other moving traffic regulations • Congestion charging

  7. Why Civil Enforcement? • Enforcement of traffic regulations an essential tool of managing London’s road network since 1993 • Civil traffic enforcement in London now 8 times the volume of all police traffic enforcement in the UK

  8. Why SPARKS and Civil Traffic Enforcement? • Civil Enforcement very effective, with significant improvement in compliance but • Foreign registered vehicles now a significant problem, causing process to fail.

  9. Process works for UK Registered vehicles

  10. Problems in two areas

  11. Process is blocked for non-UK Registered vehicles

  12. Foreign Registered Vehicles • Foreign Registered Vehicles represent: • 2% of all traffic entering central London • 5% of all traffic penalties issued (350,000 penalties a year in London) • Re-offending is twice as likely by FRV’s

  13. A Growing Problem • Increased tourism and trade within Europe • Increase in migration within EU • Increase in purchase of FRVs by UK residents • Increase in illegal activities in connection with FRVs • Increasing reliance on camera based enforcement • 2012 Olympics a particular focus

  14. FRV immunity • All civil enforcement is owner liability • FRVs are effectively immune because: • Limited access to foreign keeper databases • DVLA has no powers to receive (or send) owner data • No enforcement mechanism outside UK • Council Framework Decision on financial penalties (COPEN 24) is criminal only • Civil & commercial remedies (e.g. European Enforcement Order) not for administrative law

  15. Not just a UK problem • Netherlands, Belgium, Malta • Similar problems for parking enforcement • Other European countries moving to civil parking and traffic enforcement • Traffic management not a police priority • EETS and electronic toll collection • Congestion and road user charging (“Demand Management” policies) • Low emission zones (Utrecht, Copenhagen, Berlin)

  16. Aims of SPARKS Project - 1 • Automated access to vehicle owner databases throughout Europe • Support the ‘hub and spoke’ principle • Vehicle registries to act as gatekeepers • Access by public authorities only • National legislation changes needed

  17. Aims of SPARKS Project - 2 • Pan Europe enforcement mechanism • Based on European Enforcement Order process (COPEN 24 ineffectual) • EU action and national legislation needed

  18. Eurosparks: a comprehensive analysis of how to deliver legal changes

  19. Your Support Ensure that the needs of civil traffic enforcement considered equally with criminal traffic enforcement in data exchange matters

  20. More information or want to help? Get the video ! Email: info@sparksproject.org Or see: www.sparksproject.org www.eurosparks.org

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