DGT
As of November 1, this sanction format ends
It has happened to all of us. You open the mailbox and begin to fear the worst when the acronym DGT is printed on the letterhead of the envelope. The same feeling runs through you when you find a notification from the administrative entity to go to the Post Office. Yes, they have given you a fine and you have in your hands the complaint bulletin.
Well, forget about it from today… if you are the manager of a company at least. Because for legal persons, the body stops sending physical notifications on paper and all communication will be done through a new figure: the Road Electronic Address, which will become famous from now on by its acronym DEV.
This is how the new fine procedure works
The DEV today is a great unknown to most users, but it is mandatory to be registered in them for legal entities. By ‘legal person’ is meant “legal figure where the existence of an individual with rights and obligations is generated, but who is not a citizen. It is an institution, an organization or a company that follows some social purpose, with or without profit”.
In other words, the regulatory change affects companies, which even if they do not register as of November 1, it will be the administration itself that manages their registration ex officio. The problem is that many company managers are unaware of this change in sanctions and that does not exempt them from paying the infractions that the vehicle has committed.
As of today, the payment procedure created by the DGT for infractions is as follows. From the time a notification is published, you have a maximum of 10 calendar days to download it. What happens if you don’t?
- If it is not downloaded in time, it expires.
- If it expires, it cannot be downloaded and is considered to have been received correctly.
- When considered received, the deadlines to answer begin to count (10/20 days)
- If you do not answer within the term, a non-compliance/penalty is generated.
- The penalties can be up to three times the amount of the initial communication and will proceed to the seizure by the Treasury.
This generates a new legislative change that will surely bring controversy in its beginnings, because the DGT has not carried out any communication campaign with the norm. It will be, once again, experience that will get us used to this new way of managing paperless traffic tickets.
