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The government wants to ban the possibility of reporting speed camera checks

Speed ​​cameras - The government wants to ban the possibility of reporting speed camera checks -

Briskly mixing the fight against terrorism and simple road checks, the Interior Ministry wants to prohibit the dissemination by "smartphone applications, GPS, websites or social networks" of "any message likely to signal police operations in certain areas"… Including speed camera checks !

The ephemeral new future former Minister of the Interior, Matthias Fekl, wishes to adopt a "ddecree prohibiting the dissemination through electronic services (yes, without S, Editor’s note!) of driving or navigation assistance any message likely to signal police operations in certain areas ".

Clearly, even if the draft text does not explicitly mention it: prohibiting the possibility of signaling the locations of radar checks, even though the Court of Cassation has just recalled in a  that in the current state of the law there was "no ban on announcing the presence of speed cameras and road checks using a social network". 

  • MNC of September 7, 2016 : 

As is the procedure since it is a draft technical regulation, the French government must officially notify the Commission, which now has three months (until July 25, 2017) to give its opinion and "respond appropriately". 

Freedom to provide services ?

If it considers that the project creates "obstacles to the free movement of goods or to the free provision of information society services or to secondary EU law", the Commission may issue a detailed opinion to the Commission. attention from the French government. The standstill period would then be extended by a further three months for products and an additional month for services, while Paris would have to communicate to Brussels the measures taken in response to the detailed opinion..

  • Draft decree : Details of the April 24, 2017 notification

"A favorable impact on road safety is expected", pleads the future former French government in its visibly written with the toes of an intern, to such an extent that one could almost believe in a "fake"…

Indeed, the report of the police carrying out alcohol or narcotics checks encourages certain road users who are alcoholic or who have consumed (yes with an S, Editor’s note!) Narcotics (yes without "some", Editor’s note !! ) to change the route in order to avoid these checks. Consequently, these reports do not make it possible to fight effectively against driving while intoxicated and after use of narcotics and the accidents which are associated with it "(fight" with "accidents, in short, editor’s note). 

Applications, GPS, websites and social networks in the viewfinder

Mr. Fekl, also regional councilor of Nouvelle Aquitaine, therefore wishes to "prohibit the distribution, within any electronic service for driving or navigation assistance (in particular: smartphone applications, GPS, websites, social networks), any message or indication allowing users of this service to know the location of the police in certain perimeters and likely to affect the efficiency of administrative traffic police operations or judicial police operations carried out ". 

"These perimeters, communicated by the government to the operators of these electronic services, will be those where certain sensitive controls will take place, in particular in the context of the fight against terrorism or organized crime, road safety actions, the search for escaped detainees or kidnapped persons ", justifies the Minister of the Interior by assuring that" these perimeters will therefore only cover the most sensitive controls and cannot extend over more than twenty kilometers "and that" the ban cannot exceed twenty-four hours ". 

A fifth class offense (1,500 euros fine) would therefore be applied to operators (Coyote, Winkangoo, Inforad, Waze, etc.) who do not comply with these new provisions, through a new article R. 131-1 of the highway code. 

The long struggle of governments…

We remember that the said operators hastened to comply in 2011 when the government (led at the time by a certain François Fillon) wanted to make the indications voluntarily less precise..

  • MNC of October 24, 2016 : Senator wants to ban speed camera reporting
  • MNC of 25 October 2011 : 
  • MNC of July 29, 2011 : 

The warnings, legal (not to be confused with the detectors, illegal), were then passed from an accuracy of a few meters to vague "dangerous zones" extending over 500 m in town, 2 km outside town and downright 4 km on highway !

More recently it is the senator (LR) of the Herault, Jean-Pierre Grand, who wanted to prohibit the means of preventing the presence of speed cameras and police checks. AvWith this new draft decree, driving assistance systems should imperatively ignore zones of 20 kilometers … In other words, they would lose all usefulness !

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