I’m now expecting more fines from another visit to London last month, even though my car is a 2020 Hyundai and fully emissions-compliant.” “They arrived over five weeks after the date stamp on the PCNs, by which time the fines had tripled and the appeals deadline had passed. “The fines were sent by EPC from an address in Sweden and with the payment details of a German bank,” he said. Peter Williams, a Belgian resident, received nine penalty notices totalling £2,400 after driving into London to attend his mother’s funeral and settle her estate. Many EU motorists who received the fines say they have not breached emission zone rules and claim the PCNs do not make clear what they have done wrong. “All data is accessed through the relevant legislative framework,” said a spokesperson. It claimed that penalties were sent from the UK via an Uzbekistan sorting hub when strikes or bad weather disrupted Royal Mail services. TfL insisted the personal details of EU citizens were lawfully accessed and used under UK general data protection regulations. However, dozens of Belgian citizens have received penalty charge notices (PCNs) for alleged Ulez breaches, according to the Belgian MP Michael Freilich, who has been campaigning on the issue. The Belgian transport ministry confirmed that the UK had no legal access to the details of Belgian drivers. The NCP informed us that the authorised users have used the data in an unlawful way and closed the specific accounts.” “The outcome was that the data was requested by authorised users through the Italian National Contact Point (NCP). “In response to several complaints from Dutch citizens, we were very concerned on how their data was obtained and started an investigation immediately,” said a spokesperson. RDW told the Guardian the Transport for London (TfL) debt agent, European Parking Collection (EPC), had requested the names and addresses of Dutch citizens linked to number plates through a government agency in Italy, which was not authorised to share that information. EU governments are warning the data used to identify drivers and send them penalties may have been unlawfully obtained.Īccording to the Belgian ministry for transport and the Dutch vehicle licensing agency, RDW, there is no legal data-sharing agreement between the two countries and the UK for the enforcement of emissions zones breaches.
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