Mutual assistance in the service of the traffic offence notice and follow-up documents
Article 5e
1. The competent authority of the Member State of the offence may send the traffic offence notice or follow-up documents to the persons concerned via the competent authorities of the Member State of registration or Member State of residence, in the following cases: (a) the address of the person for whom the document is intended is unknown, incomplete or uncertain; (b) the procedural rules under the law of the Member State of the offence require proof of service of the document, other than proof that can be obtained by post, registered delivery, registered mail or by equivalent electronic means referred to in Article 5a(1); (c) it has not been possible to serve the document by post, registered delivery, registered mail or by equivalent electronic means referred to in Article 5a(1); (d) the Member State of the offence has justified reasons for considering that the service of the document by post, registered delivery, registered mail or by equivalent electronic means referred to in Article 5a(1) in that particular case will be ineffective or is inappropriate. The competent authorities of the Member State of the offence and of the Member State of registration or the Member State of residence shall communicate with each other via their respective national contact points. 2. The Member State of registration or Member State of residence shall ensure that the traffic offence notice and the follow-up documents that are to be served in accordance with paragraph 1 are served either in accordance with their national law, or, when duly justified, by a particular method requested by the Member State of the offence, unless such method is incompatible with their national law. 3. The Member State of registration or Member State of residence shall ensure that their competent authority provides an electronically structured response including: (a) where the delivery is successful, the date of service and data about the person receiving the document; (b) where the delivery is not successful, a reason for failing to deliver the traffic offence notice or the follow-up document. The response of a successful delivery shall be considered as a proof of service of the document.