site.bta13,775 Foreign-Registered Drivers Caught Speeding by Average-Speed Cameras between September 7 and October 8

Between September 7, when average-speed monitoring was introduced, and October 8, Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry received 33,288 recorded speeding violations from the National Toll Administration’s cameras, including 13,775 involving vehicles with foreign registration plates, Interior Minister Daniel Mitov said in a written reply to MP Bozhidar Bozhanov (Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria).

The recordings are being processed by authorized Interior Ministry staff, and fines will be imposed accordingly. A procedure is underway to adapt the Ministry’s and Road Infrastructure Agency’s automated systems and align the secondary legislation to enable enforcement of average-speed violations, Mitov said.

At this stage, revenue data from electronic fines issued to foreign drivers cannot be extracted as separate statistics, he added.

According to Interior Ministry data from October 8, a total of 37,900 speeding incidents were detected by toll system cameras across 12 certified road sections of the national network. The legal amendments effective September 7 extended the speeding ban to include average speed over a given road section, calculated through cameras installed at its start and end points.