The Italian fine notice
Everything you need to understand the fine is already on the paper. This page names the fields one by one, in the words printed on them.
What we do not do
We do not look up your fine and we take no payments
The paper
The notice's fields, one by one
- Notice number
- The identifier a payment is matched against. It is the datum any portal will ask you for.
- Notice type
- It states which article was charged: the field that fixes the corridor, the points and the accessories.
- Notice series
- It distinguishes blocks of notices issued by the same enforcement body.
- Date of roadside or postal service
- The date the clock starts from. Two different fields, and only one of them applies to your case.
- Enforcement body
- Who issued the notice, and therefore who is paid and who is written to.
- Recorded speed
- On speeding notices: the number the art. 345 reduction starts from.
The service deadlines
The exact day counts for the two art. 201 deadlines are not yet in our data set, and until they are we do not write them: every figure on this site comes from the data, not from the page's prose. We are not saying the statute is silent — the rule exists and the deadlines are in it; we are saying where our model currently reaches.
If the deadline passes without service, the obligation to pay the sum is extinguished (art. 201).
If the notice is for speeding
Calculator
How it is paid
Details
The lowest figure in the corridor the charged article sets.
On this site: day month year
On this site: day month year
Result
- In force as of
- 1 January 2021
- Source
- CdS art. 202
What we found
The amounts are bounded by a decree that is due
Change pending
Art. 195 co. 3 CdS; L. 197/2022 art. 1 co. 497, as amended by D.L. 31 December 2025 no. 200 art. 9 co. 1
Finding your row
Everything that decides the outcome is already on the paper
An Italian traffic ticket is a «verbale di contestazione», and it is dense, printed in Italian, and organised around a small number of fields that do all the work. You do not need to read the whole document. You need four entries, and they are always there.
The article charged — usually printed near «norma violata» or in the description of the offence — decides everything else: the corridor, the points, and whether an accessory sanction attaches. The date entries, «data di contestazione» for a notice handed to you at the roadside and «data di notificazione» for one served by post, decide when your deadlines run; only one of them applies to your case. The enforcement body, «organo accertatore», decides who you pay and who you write to. And the notice number is what any payment is matched against.
On a speeding notice there is a fifth: «velocità rilevata», the recorded speed. That is the number the art. 345 reduction applies to, and the number our calculator wants — not the excess.
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| On the paper | What it decides |
|---|---|
| Norma violata / the article charged | The corridor, the points, and any accessory sanction |
| Data di contestazione / di notificazione | When the 60 days window and the 5 days window start |
| Organo accertatore | Who is paid, and who an appeal is addressed to |
| Numero verbale | The reference a payment is matched against |
| Velocità rilevata | The value the 5% reduction applies to, before the band |
Paying it
Paying it from outside Italy
The payable figure is the corridor's floor — art. 202 makes the minimum the sum that closes the matter — and the window is 60 days from the date on the notice. Inside the first 5 days a further 30% applies, unless the offence carries confiscation of the vehicle under art. 210 co. 3 or a suspension of the licence, in which case it does not apply at all.
There is no single national payment page. Italian traffic penalties are collected by the body that issued them — a comune's police force, the Polizia Stradale, the Carabinieri — and the notice itself carries the correct references: the pagoPA reference where the body uses it, the comune's own portal where it has one, or a postal account. Those printed references are the instructions; a generic "pay Italian fines here" service is an intermediary, not the authority.
From abroad, timing is the risk rather than the mechanism. For non-cash payments what counts legally is the date the administration's account is credited, not the date you initiated the transfer, and the rule allows 2 days for that credit to arrive past the deadline. An international transfer routed through a correspondent bank can eat that comfortably, so treat the deadline as the credit date and work backwards.
Keep the confirmation. A payment that was made and cannot be evidenced is, for practical purposes, a payment that was not made.
If the vehicle was registered abroad
CdS art. 207 co. 1, 2, 2-bis and 3
How it works
Service deadlines, and the consequence of missing them
Where an offence could not be contested on the spot — the camera cases, an absent driver, an unattended vehicle — the notice must be served within the period art. 201 co. 1 sets, and a longer period applies to service on a person resident abroad. The article states those periods; our data set carries the art. 202 payment windows and not the art. 201 service clocks, so we do not print them. That is a limit of our model, not a silence in the law: the deadlines exist and they are in that comma.
The consequence, though, is worth stating exactly, because it is unusually strong. Under art. 201 co. 5 the obligation to pay is EXTINGUISHED as against a person on whom the notice was not served within the prescribed period. Not postponed, not reduced — extinguished. If your notice arrived very late, the date of service against the date of the offence is the first thing to check.
This is also why the dates on the paper matter more than the dates you remember. A notice served late is a different legal position from a notice you received late because it went to an old address, and the record of service is what distinguishes them.
Ignoring it does not make it go away
CdS art. 203 co. 3 · art. 206
The owner is liable alongside the driver
CdS art. 196 co. 1 and 4 · art. 126-bis co. 2
Draft in progress: the long-form text of this page is still being written.
Next step
Start from the number on your notice
The calculator shows the art. 345 reduction step by step, then the band, then the payable figure and the deadlines.