In this article the background and details of the the proposed bill ‘Settlement by the public prosecutor office’ are discussed in relation to the proposed bills Administrative fine nuisance in public space and unauthorized parking and other minor traffic offenses. According to the author this will lead to a proliferation of settlements without a trial and a very obscure situation for citizens. The author proposes a simple solution, which makes the aforesaid bills superfluous. The bill ‘Settlement by the Public Prosecutor Office’ makes it possible to give to persons or bodies with a public task the authority to impose sanctions, in this case fines. This means that for example nuisance in the public space, wrongful parking and small traffic offences may be settled by simple sentence arrangements. Only some flanking legislation measures will be necessary, whereas the advantages with respect to the legal security and legal protection of the citizen are obvious. Moreover also (a part of ) the revenue from the imposed fines can flow to the municipalities along the way of the sentence arrangement. (Author/publisher)
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