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November 06, 2019Entry into force tomorrow, November 7, the obligation - for those who transport children under 4 years - to install devices to prevent the abandonment of children in closed vehicles.

This was announced by Asaps, the Polstrada supporters' association, explaining that the Ministry of the Interior today disclosed the Explanatory Circular of the Central Directorate for Specialties to implement the MIP decree on the Regulation on Article 172 of the new Highway Code.

The decree, explains Asaps, provides that the devices "must be activated automatically and must be equipped with an alarm able to warn the driver of the presence of the child in the vehicle through special visual and acoustic or visual and haptic signals, perceivable inside or outside the vehicle (they can also be equipped with an automatic communication system for sending messages or calls) ".

The Decree of the Ministry of Transport has also established the technical characteristics of these devices "which can be originally integrated into the child seat, or a basic equipment or an accessory of the vehicle, included in the homologation dossier of the same or a system independent of the child seat and from the vehicle ". Those who do not have these devices will incur violations under Article 172 of the Highway Code, with administrative sanctions ranging from 81 to 326 euros (payment within five days 56.70 euros) and a 5 point deduction from the driving license.

"The Asaps - comments President Giordano Biserni - hoped for a greater margin of time by interpreting the law more favorably and with the granting of the initially planned 120 days, so it was not. Therefore parents, grandparents and carers hurry!".