The Knesset's Economy Committee, chaired by MK David Bitan, today continued to prepare for second and third reading the government bill on administrative traffic violations. The proposal is intended to transform some of the traffic offenses that are currently defined as fines and "choice of trial" offenses, which are considered criminal, into "traffic violations" "to be dealt with at the administrative level, as well as to authorize the Minister of Justice to establish an administrative traffic court.
After the previous meetings, Chairman David Bitan (Likud) and members of the committee, including MK Shalom Danino (Likud), Eliyahu Baruchi (Torah Judaism) and Simon Moshiashvili ( Shas) to introduce amendments in the proposal for the benefit of the public, today the government representatives addressed the requests.
The representative of the Ministry of Justice, Adv. To which the law will apply are offenses for which there are no points, and the offenses for which there are points are from the low threshold of up to 6 points, and the implementation will be gradual.
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Attorney Reuvani further explained that today the points are accumulated for two years, and only at the end are they deleted. And now the proposal is that points for minor offenses, which carry up to 6 points, will be deleted after only one year, provided no additional offenses are committed. In addition to this, those who receive fines for a number of Combined offenses, such as driving while driving and driving without a seat belt, will receive points only for the most serious offense of them, and not for each offense separately as currently exists.
Judge Avital Chen referred to the proposal to make it easier for professional drivers of heavy vehicles and buses, saying that his proposal in this case is not to make it easier for offenses Severity with no one, and especially not with professional drivers. "Technical offenses of minor mistakes can be made easier with professional drivers, but not life-threatening offenses," he said
. The biggest because it really isn't implemented. 90 percent of the offenses end in a fine. The system didn't deter drivers like we thought."
He warned that if the law is passed and it is not possible to appeal the police's decision within "a year or two", 50% of the drivers whose license will be revoked will get off the road.
Chairman Bitan suggested further shortening the time for erasing the points for professional drivers to 9 months, and requested an update regarding His demand for additional judges.
He said that the alternative is to establish in law a timetable for closing cases, and thus judges will have to be added.
Attorney Levy replied that one of the achievements of the legislation is the clearing of the traffic court to deal with serious cases. Judge Chen asked not to set a timetable for the discussion of the legislation. Attorney Nir Gordon from the Ministry of Justice noted that the Ministry received from the Treasury an addition of 33 standards for judges to the entire system, and he will be able to reassess the needs and act accordingly.
The representative of the National Histadrut, Matan Koenig, said that the government representatives are trying to change the legal system, to one that shifts the burden of proof to the driver, and are lecturing the members of the committee.
According to him, the drivers will not be able to fight the method, which is designed to qualify digital evidence.
"They want a moving film, because that's what should bring in the income. That's why they came up with the idea between administrative law," he said.
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MK Simon Moshiashvili asked to know if this would not harm the professionalism of the procedure, and Ben Harosh added that today 1.2 million reports are given a year and this has not reduced the number of accidents. "It is a cash register," he said. Attorney Levy responded that the main goal of the state is not Reducing the load in the courts, but increasing enforcement for the benefit of the public and the fight against traffic accidents.
Judge Chen even added that the burden on the courts has not decreased, because the police will introduce new cases into the system that they cannot introduce today, which are much more serious and take time to manage.
Knesset members Moshiashvili and Baruchi asked if this meant that the police did not enforce, and Khan replied that this was not the meaning.
"There is no way that a police officer encounters a drunk driver and sends him home because the courts are busy," he said.
He explained that the enforcement limit for cameras, for example, is sometimes set at 15 km/h above the limit
because the courts cannot absorb all the cases.
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Regarding speed enforcement, he said that it is known that there is a bottleneck in the courts, and if a sign limits speed to 90 km/h, then the police are required to enforce 90 km/h, but are forced to enforce more than that.
At the end of the hearing, Chairman Bitan announced that the committee will begin reading the clauses of the proposal at the next meetings , and asked the Ministry of Transportation to submit to the committee the amendment of the scoring system regulations at the same time as the progress in preparing the proposal for second and third reading.
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