The notification system: viale-mail address (DEV) and the board edictal of traffic sanctions (TESTA)

Abstract

The amendment of the Spanish Transit Act promotes the implantation of eGovernment solutions as a mechanism for the improvement of the efficiency in the handing of the penalty procedures. This paper reflects the new system of personal notices derived from the reform, which provides an electronic system of notification, which is mandatory for all the juristic persons that hold vehicles. This situations is perfectly constitutional, but can be quite polemic. Anyway, the Law gives citizens the opportunity to change the channel of communication and go to the paper –postal notice- once practiced the first electronic personal notice.