Overview
- Minister Matteo Salvini signed the ministerial decree on Tuesday, June 9, establishing a single procedure for homologation, verification and periodic calibration of autovelox.
- The decree sets measurable technical requirements for devices, including accuracy limits, detection and plate‑recognition performance thresholds and automatic face‑obscuring for frontal images.
- Autovelox installed before 2017 must undergo mandatory tests, functionality checks and tarature, while municipalities and manufacturers may use a simplified documentation route that the MIT must decide on within 60 days.
- The measure is explicitly prospective and does not cancel past fines; existing sanctions remain subject to judicial challenge under prior Court of Cassation rulings that distinguished approval from formal homologation.
- Before it takes effect the decree must be reviewed by the Corte dei Conti, published in the Official Gazette and will enter into force 15 days after publication, a step that could determine when many currently inactive or uncertified devices return to service and when municipal revenues are affected.