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ANNOUNCEMENT :

REGISTER TO TAKE PART IN A LIVE WEBCAST THIS FRIDAY MORNING ABOUT THE NEW CROSS-BORDER FINES ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM

Making Foreigners Pay Their Fines - Live Webcast on Friday 9th October at 11:30 (UK time)

Your opportunity to hear from the experts about the UK's new cross-border fines enforcement legislation. This is a live webcast with officials from the Ministry of Justice and the European Commission and will allow you to learn the facts about the new system and to ask questions.

The European  'Mutual Recognition of Financial Penalties' process came into force in most of the UK on 1 st October, and is already in place in many other EU member states.

This new international system for enforcing fines across national borders has implications for the police, the courts, bailiffs and many others involved in issuing or collecting financial penalties.

REGISTER HERE to take part in this free event.
 

On the live webcast you will hear

• What the new legal processes are and how they will work
• What the system means for public authorities with a problem of unpaid fines
• How and where the new system will be used
• What is happening elsewhere in Europe

The speakers on the webcast will be

• Dr Sue Rayner Jacobs, Head of Enforcement Policy, Her Majesty's Court Service in the Ministry of Justice
• Richard Beston,  policy manager, the HMCS Civil and Criminal Enforcement policy team, responsible for the new UK legislation
• Adrianna Miękina, criminal justice policy officer in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Justice, Liberty & Security
• Bill Blakemore of the SPARKS Network.
   

 How to join the webcast:

The webcast will be broadcast live over the internet at 11: 30 UK time ( 12: 30 CET)  on Friday 9th October 2009, and will also be recorded.

To take part you must register here. You will not be able to hear the webcast or see the slides if you do not register. The event will last about 75 minutes.

You will listen to the presenters and see their slides on your computer. If you have not listened to a webcast before please check that you have headphones or speakers attached to your PC, and that the sound is turned on. To see the slides that will accompany the presentation, and to ask questions, you must also have Adobe Flash software on your PC (most computers have this).

The webcast is kindly sponsored by

Euro Parking Collection plc  and

Marston Group Ltd

What the press said about the new legislation:

"Holidaymakers to pay EU speeding fines back home in UK" wrote the Daily Mail

"Speeding tickets to follow Britons home"wrote the Observer

"Thousands of Foreign Motorists will escape speeding fines" wrote the Daily Telegraph
 

For other information from SPARKS about the new legislation please see the SPARKS website here

We look forward to you attending the webcast.