(Finance) – The government has decided to freeze increases in traffic fines for the whole of 2025avoiding for Italians a blow that can fluctuate from 6% to over 17%, in the event that the government opts to adjust the entire period of non-update of sanctions to inflation, which runs from 2020 to 2024.
The increases in the penalties provided for by the Highway Code, for adjustment to inflation, should have started with the new year, but a amendment to the Milleprorogh decreeand, which emerged after approval in the Council of Ministers, provides one stop for the whole of 2025. Therefore the increases they will only start from 2026.
“In consideration of the exceptional economic situation – states the amendment – the biennial update of the administrative pecuniary sanctions is suspended in an amount equal to the entire variation, ascertained by Istat, of the consumer price index for families of workers and employees”.
“The League expresses great satisfaction for the stop to the increase in road fines also for 2025, as strongly hoped for by the deputy prime minister and minister Matteo Salvini”, explain Northern League sources, speaking of “another reasonable measurein line with the electoral promises, which the League intends to enhance together with other common sense choices that Salvini’s party will illustrate from today and throughout the week”.
Consumers welcome the amendment with moderate satisfactionwhich does not completely avoid the increases, but moves them forward in time, with the risk of triggering in one fell swoop the adjustment suspended for five years.
“Well, excellent news, but it’s not enough! Our request has been accepted, but only in part. The increase in fines must not be suspended but cancelled”, comments Massimiliano Dona, president of theNational Consumers Union., adding “please specify that in 2026 only the biennial update relating to 2024 and 2025 will take place, canceling all previous suspended adjustments and starting a new count, otherwise we risk finding ourselves with the 5-year increase in one fell swoop”.
“If the increases have been thwarted, it will not however be possible to avoid the new measures which will come into force on December 14th with the new Highway Code, and which will tighten the penalties for some violations by introducing more severe penalties for violators”, he states Assoutients.