Speed camera, system problems cost state up to â¬15m in revenue
The number of speeding tickets issued by police in 2020 was down 41 percent compared to the previous year.
The number of speeding fines issued by police began to decline from May last year.
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Police issued about 110,000 fewer speeding tickets last year than in 2019, costing the state between 10 and 15 million euros in lost revenue, due to problems with a new batch of traffic surveillance cameras as well as the system of processing speeding violations.
The issues led to police switching off some cameras for several months, as well as raising the speeding threshold above the normal levels of other speed surveillance devices on the roads.