Bill amending section 379.1 of the Criminal Code on driving above the permitted speed
File 122/000257 · tabled on February 17, 2026
What it proposes
To lower the speed thresholds above which speeding stops being an administrative offence and becomes a crime. Penalties and the rest of section 379 are untouched.
Parliamentary stage
- Current stage
- Home Affairs Committee — rapporteurs’ report stage
- Checked on
- File number
- 122/000257
- Text as tabled
- Official gazette · file 122/000257
The stage shown is the one recorded in the Congress open data on the date indicated. A bill in progress is not law: until it is eventually published in the official state gazette, the text in force set out below applies.
What would change, section by section
On the left, the text in force checked against the consolidated version; on the right, what the tabled text says.
Art. 379.1 CP
Text in force
It is an offence to drive more than sixty km/h above the urban limit or more than eighty km/h above the interurban limit. The penalty is three to six months’ imprisonment, a six to twelve month fine or thirty-one to ninety days’ community service and, in every case, a driving ban of more than one and up to four years.
Text as tabled
The thresholds would drop to fifty km/h in urban roads and seventy km/h on interurban roads. The penalties stay exactly the same. The final provision sets entry into force two months after publication.
Who it affects
Any driver: speeding that today ends in an administrative fine and licence points would become a criminal matter ten km/h earlier in town and ten km/h earlier on the open road.
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