Foreign vans miss zero-emissions fines due to licence plate law - DutchNews.nl
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Dutch entrepreneurs risk a fine from 1 July if they drive into an emission-free zone with a dirty diesel. Foreign colleagues, however, largely escape control.
Legal loophole lets polluting foreign vans enter Dutch zero-emission zones unpunished
Foreign business owners driving older diesel or gasoline vans can currently enter Dutch zero-emission zones without facing automatic fines, due to a loophole in European data-sharing rules. Despite a national rollout of these environmentally focused areas, the Dutch government has so far allegedly failed to secure the legal means to penalize foreign-plated vehicles caught on camera, according to AD.
For the time being, it is impossible to automatically fine owners of vans and trucks that run on diesel or petrol with a foreign license plate. This is due to European regulations, State Secretary Chris Jansen wrote in a letter this week. There are options for exchanging vehicle and owner data at European level in the event of speeding violations, for example, but this option does not apply to the so-called zero-emission zones. The government an…
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