geoff wrote:

Andy Burns writes

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/e...0110629BKG2287
6/html/Cross-border-traffic-offence-penalties-to-improve-road-safety

" But many Member States have not yet fully transposed this decision
into their national laws and the administrative mechanism that it
introduces has not proven able to deal with large numbers of road
traffic offences.|"

So, not really

That's the paragraph explaining why the 2005 attempt needed replacing by
the 2011 version ...