Speed cameras, census completed: national list online. Fines null and void for unregistered devices

online is the official list of speed cameras, the speed detection devices and systems authorised nationwide. This was announced by the Ministry of Transport after the deadline for the national census expired on 28 November: in fact, the deadlines for the submission of data by the administrations and bodies on which the traffic police bodies depend expired on 28 November. Using the telematics platform set up by the MIT, the bodies indicated the following for each device: make, model, version, serial number where present, details of the MIT decree of approval or homologation, kilometric location (if necessary) and direction of travel. All transmitted data are automatically published and freely consultable on the institutional portal of the Ministry.

Codacons recalls that municipalities, local authorities and police forces that have not communicated the data on the platform will have to switch off the devices as of today, 29 November, under penalty of nullity of the fines raised. A treasure trove that of the automatic speed detection devices which, in the top 20 Italian cities alone, has brought as much as 203 million euros in fines imposed on motorists in the three-year period 2022-2024 into the coffers of local administrations.

Ministerial Decree No. 367 of 29 September finally made operational the telematic platform through which local authorities and police forces had to communicate all details about speed detection devices: location, conformity, model and homologation of speed cameras. This was an obligation for local administrations, which had 60 days to communicate the required information to MIT. The same decree published on the Ministry's website in fact specifies that 'the communication of data on the devices or systems referred to in paragraph 1 by the competent administrations and bodies is a necessary condition for the legitimate use of the devices'.

Codacons points out that the problem of homologation still remains: the speed camera chaos has been going on for 20 months now, ever since the Court of Cassation ruled in April 2024 that fines issued by approved but not homologated devices are null and void," the association recalls. Today, almost 60% of fixed speed cameras and more than 67% of mobile ones, in addition to not being homologated, were approved before 2017, a watershed date in terms of homologation and possible use of the devices, resulting in an avalanche of appeals by fined motorists.