In the reform of Traffic Laws there are also theplate obligation, e-bike insurance e scooters. In addition to the news concerning theSpeed Cameras.
Il Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salviniduring Question Time in the House on June 7, announced the launch of a road safety measure.
This provision represents the first step of an organic reform of the Highway Code. The minister announces that the first points concern: the squeeze on bicycles and scooters and definition of certain rules for theinstallation and use of speed cameras.
Highway Code, from license plates to insurance for e-bikes and scooters, source Depositphotos
The data leading to the need to regulate e-bikes and scooters
So the minister opens the session by illustrating the data that lead to the regulation of e-bikes and scooters. Above all by defining: “a datum unworthy of a civilized country” i 3,120 road deaths as of 2022. The first measure will be brought to Parliament’s attention already this month (June).
The tight come on e-bike e scootersas reported by theAnsa: “The new road safety rules will provide for helmets, insurance, license plates and mandatory arrows for scooters and bicycles”.
Attention, nothing new under the sun, the minister has repeatedly expressed his willingness to place both micro-mobility vehicles under precise rules.
While, in a note, released after Question Time, the ministry then announces “heavy penalties for wild parking and for driving against traffic”.
The inclusion of bicycles in this provision, which as mentioned comes unexpectedly, has aroused the discontent of the trade associations. Confindustria Ancmathe national association Ciclo Motociclo Accessori, has already expressed strong concern: “The reform today seems more against the diffusion of the bicycle than in favor of greater safety on the roads. Penalizing the leadership of our industry would be an own goal“.
Highway Code, from license plates to insurance for bikes and scooters, source Depositphotos
Speed cameras, approval and approval of devices for all Municipalities
The reform of the Highway Code also affects speed cameras. Minister Matteo Salvini declares, again as reported by Ansa: “We are working to ensure that they are standardized at a national level and be utility tool for saving lives and are not only, in some situations, used to raise cash and replenish the municipal coffers”.
Not only that, the minister announces: “As soon as the legislative change we are working on has been approved, we have already prepared the draft ministerial decree with which speed detection devices and equipment will be approved and approved uniformly throughout Italy”.
The aim is to standardize the installation and approval of speed cameras throughout Italy, removing the intervention discretion of the municipal administrations. Also standardize the sanctions, which must be “fair and effective, protecting the right of defense for citizens”.
Furthermore, the aim is to achieve a scheme that allows “always protecting the lives of pedestrians, cyclists and weak users on the road, but without further burdening Italian motorists who are among the most harassed in Europe”.
Obligation to install the breathalyzer in the car? Another crucial point of the reform
Finally, as always read by the Ansa agency, it could find space later in the provision approved by the Government the obligation for car manufacturers to install the so-called ‘alcolock’, the car breathalyzer “already in use in other European countries, which prevents the car from being started if the driver’s blood alcohol content is above zero”.
Lastly, the harsher application of the so-called “life imprisonment of the driving licence”, ie the measure which provides for the immediate and lifelong withdrawal of the driving license in the event of serious infringements, seems certain.