General Information
VHOH stands for Vehicle, Owner, Holder.
The VHOH service is used to retrieve vehicle-holder-owner information regarding vehicles with which an traffic offence has been committed, covered by a bilateral or multilateral treaty between the Member States that exchange the information. The information exchanged, resembles the information exchange covered by the CBE directive 2015/413 (visit this page for CBE information). VHOH can be used for ‘non-CBE’ offences, i.e., offences not covered in CBE. VHOH can also be used by Member States that do not take part in CBE, for any offence the bilateral treaty covers.
The traffic offence is committed in one Member State, while the vehicle is registered in another Member State. The Member State where the offence is committed, uses the vehicle-owner-holder information to prepare and send an information letter to the holder of the vehicle. The information letter reports the offence that was observed, informs the holder about the sanction (usually payment of a fine), as well as possibilities to challenge the decision to impose a sanction.
The VHOH service can be used online, real-time (sVHOH), one case per inquiry. The VHOH service can also be used in batch mode (mVHOH), multiple cases per inquiry. In this case, processing is asynchronously and takes up to one week.
A country receiving and processing VHOH requests has two choices. It may develop a separate legacy gateway for sVHOH and mVHOH requests (which is functionally analogous to a sCBE or mCBE legacy service). It may also use one legacy gateway for sVHOH, and use the EUCARIS Batch Processor to process the mVHOH requests, using the sVHOH legacy gateway.
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