Speeding

Points start at 21 km/h over the limit, in both locations. Below that the money is real and the register stays empty.

A standard driving ban begins later, and not in the same place in the two tables: 31 to 40 km/h inside built-up areas, 41 to 50 km/h outside them. The severe bands reach 3 months. The band just below the ban threshold is the one most often misdescribed elsewhere as licence-losing — it is expensive, it carries points, and it does not by itself take the licence.

Note also that the same excess is scored differently by location in the middle of the table: the band that first brings a ban inside built-up areas carries more points there than the equivalent row does outside. That is not an inconsistency in our data — it follows from how the points annex qualifies its entries by location.

Separately from everything above, a second excess of at least 26 km/h within 12 months of an earlier such decision becoming final brings a standard ban of 1 month — irrespective of what the row for the second offence provides. It is a rule about persistence, and it is the reason two people in the same band can receive different outcomes.

The catalogue reuses this row set for excesses committed where visibility was heavily reduced by fog, snowfall or rain. The offence description differs; the amounts, points and bans are these.

And the rows that produce the smallest amounts are not fines in the procedural sense: a standard rate up to 55 € is collected as a caution payment, which inside built-up areas covers excesses to about 15 km/h and outside them to about 15 km/h.

The fine catalogue has no points column. What you see in the points column above is a join with an annex to the driving-licence ordinance, which lists offences by their catalogue number in three groups — one point, two points, three points. Every points figure on this page is therefore the result of looking up this table's row numbers in that annex, and the join is documented rather than assumed.

That is also why the points column is not simply proportional to the amount. The annex qualifies some of its entries by location, which is how the same excess can carry a different number of points inside and outside a built-up area, and why the join has to be done per row rather than per band.

A points figure in this table describes the offence. Whether it reached your register is a separate question, decided by the amount actually imposed on your notice and by whether a ban was ordered.

Three things are worth comparing line by line. First, the excess: the notice states the measured speed and the charged excess separately, and only the second one indexes this table. Second, the location: a notice will say whether the offence was inside or outside a built-up area, and picking the wrong table shifts every figure. Third, the catalogue row number, which appears on the notice and in the table above — if the row does not describe what you are accused of, that is a concrete discrepancy rather than a general grievance.

What this table cannot tell you is whether the measurement was sound, whether the sign that set the limit was valid where you were, or whether the device was properly certified and operated. Those are the questions that actually decide contested speeding cases, and they are questions about evidence, which no table settles.