The State Duma rejected the bill on fines for violating the average speed

The State Duma rejected a bill on amendments to the Administrative Code, which proposed to consolidate administrative responsibility for violations of the average speed if it is recorded by traffic cameras. The document is published on the website of the lower house of Parliament.

In April, the State Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation proposed rejecting the bill. This bill is a companion to the draft federal law, which envisaged conducting an experiment in the Vologda Region on the use of a system for monitoring the average speed of vehicles. Its author is the regional legislative assembly.

The deputies proposed to introduce an experimental legal regime in their region with the punishment of drivers and to conduct an experiment on one of the local highways on a 200 km section by the end of 2026. It was proposed to use a special formula to calculate the average speed. The fines would range from 750 to 7.5 thousand rubles, as for the usual excess under Article 12.9 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. The bill was rejected in October last year.

The practice of punishing drivers for exceeding the average speed existed in the Russian Federation until 2021. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation decided that it is impossible to specify an indefinite section of road as the place of commission of a violation, a specific place is necessary. In 2023, the Ministry of Transport prepared amendments to the traffic regulations, but they did not reach adoption. The Interior Ministry stated that fines cannot be refunded until the rules are adjusted.

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On April 22, the United Russia faction announced that they opposed the introduction of fines for violating the "average speed".