General Information

CBE stands for Cross-Border Exchange.

The CBE service is used to retrieve vehicle-holder-owner information regarding vehicles with which an traffic offence has been committed, covered by the CBE directive 2015/413 (Previously, 2011/82/EU, now annulled). 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 information letter  must be put in a language the holder is likely to understand. This is either the language spoken in the country where the holder has its address, or, in countries with more than one official language, the language of the vehicle registration document of the holder.

The CBE service can be used online, real-time (sCBE), one case per inquiry. The CBE service can also be used in batch mode (mCBE), multiple cases per inquiry. In this case, processing is asynchronously and takes up to one week.

A country receiving and processing CBE requests has two choices. It may develop a separate legacy gateway for sCBE and mCBE requests. It may also use one legacy gateway for sCBE, and use the EUCARIS Batch Processor to process the mCBE requests, using the sCBE legacy gateway.

Visit this page for technical information.

Links to data overviews can be found on the country pages, see below.

Below, the list of countries that participate in CBE is given. If you click on a country, you will be directed to the CBE country page. On the country pages, the following information can be found:

1. Contact data of CBE contact persons
2. Some details about the vehicle registration and the CBE information exchange
3. Some details about the processing of mCBE request the country receives (frequency, duration)
4. Some details about the CBE requests the country sends (frequency, sCBE or mCBE).

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