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Thanks to the two-year inflation adjustment based on changes in the Istat index, in 2021 the a lot of streets, for the first time since 1993, they should go down. However, we use the conditional because, at least for the moment, the process that should lead to the year-end ministerial decree in charge of setting the new amounts has not yet begun.
The two-year adjustment to inflation
Therefore, the situation runs the risk of being paradoxical. In the 2021-2022 biennium, fines could, on paper, be cheaper, but the State has no intention of wanting to cut them. Or at least: on the horizon, as mentioned, there is no trace of the complex operation that should lead to the adjustment (downward) of the mentioned road fines.
But which adjustment Are we talking about? Let’s take a step back in time to briefly reconstruct its history. In odd-numbered years, what is called a two-year adjustment takes place. This is usually a periodic price increase to avoid that, due to inflation, the values of the fines are reduced to the point of being insignificant (as happened in 1992).
Check the fines
As pointed out The sun 24 hours, it is important to read thearticle 195 of the Highway Code, which establishes how the pecuniary administrative sanctions inherent to traffic offenses should be applied. Paragraph 3 says that the entity goes “updated every two years by a measure equal to the total change, determined by Istat, in the consumer price index for blue-collar and white-collar families (national average) that occurred in the previous two years“.
That is, taking into account the index referring to families of employed workers, the quantities It must be updated both in case of uploads and downloads. It had never happened, not even after the crisis of 2008, that the amounts, calculator in hand, suffered a decrease. In 2015-2016, the most frequent penalties, such as prohibited parking, remained unchanged.
An unprecedented situation
The current situation is quite particular. Thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, the two-year index detected byState (relative to the period between October 2018 and October 2020) was around -0.4%. Let me be clear: the base value that will be used to determine the new penalty amounts is the one for November, which will be calculated and released on December 15th. In any case, since there were no sudden increases in inflation, the index will remain negative.
Therefore, the situation could be favorable to witness a release fines. However, this will not be the case since, in all probability, the amounts of the fines will hardly be touched with a rounding that will leave them practically unchanged. Perhaps – but this is only a hypothesis – it is due to the limited amount of the discounts that the Ministry of Justice (which will write the Ministerial Decree with the new amounts, together with the Economy and Infrastructure) could leave everything unchanged.
However, the third paragraph of the aforementioned article 195 speaks clearly: the new amounts must be set before December 1 of each biennial period. Of course, the data from Istat arrives on December 15th, but usually these days the procedures to implement Dm they were already quite advanced. For the moment, everything is silent. There are two possibilities: the best is that there may be a delay in the DM and in the update of the systems, the worst is that the state thinks about “” putting undue money in your pocket “.
