30 euro incentive and fine up to 326

Stop the tragedy: the obligation to mount the alarm devices for cars is launched tomorrow, 7 November 2019 child seats, the so-called anti-abandonment systems. This was recalled by the Ministry of Transport, specifying that the regulation implementing article 172 of the new one Traffic laws on the subject it was published on October 23 in the Official Gazette, providing for the entry into force 15 days later, precisely on November 7, 2019. To facilitate the purchase of the devices, in the tax bill a fund was set up for an incentive of 30 euros for each device purchased.

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But there are those who ask for the suspension of fines given that the citizens are not informed: the deputy of the Democratic Party Ubaldo Pagano has proposed to the Interior Ministry to suspend "for the moment the sanctions on anti-abandon seats until the citizens have been informed in correct and widespread on the new legislation and until the 30-euro incentive to purchase, provided by DL Fisco, will be operational, whose implementation methods have yet to be clarified by the Ministry of Transport ».

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The decree, explained the Asaps, the Polstrada supporters' association, provides that the devices must be activated automatically and must be equipped with an alarm able to warn the driver of the presence of the child in the vehicle through special visual and acoustic or visual signals and haptic (tactile or with vibrations, ed), perceptible inside or outside the vehicle (they can also be equipped with an automatic communication system for sending messages or calls).

The Decree of the Ministry of Transport has also established the technical characteristics of these devices that can be originally integrated into the seat, or a basic equipment or an accessory of the vehicle, included in the homologation dossier of the same or a system independent of the seat and from the vehicle.

Those who do not have these devices will incur violations under Article 172 of the Highway Code, with administrative sanctions ranging from 81 to 326 euros (payment within five days of 56.70 euros) and a 5 point deduction from the driving license.

"The Asaps – comments President Giordano Biserni – called for a greater margin of time by interpreting the law more favorably and with the granting of the initially planned 120 days, so it was not. So parents, grandparents and carers hurry up!».