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Court declares it illegal to stop people at border for unpaid fines

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The Supreme Administrative Court has ordered the practice of issuing penalty decrees for unpaid fines under the Road Traffic Act at the Kulata-Promachonas and Ilinden-Exochi border crossings to be stopped, the court's press service reported. The decision is final.

The magistrates point out that: "according to the established case law of the Constitutional Court, the Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice, the fact that the state could not fulfill its obligation to serve electronic slips and penal decrees and to collect the fines, cannot not be grounds for impeding the right to leave the country."



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