From the day you're notified you have 20 calendar days: pay half and close it, or fight it and risk the full amount. Before deciding, someone should actually read the notification: was it served correctly? Is the infraction already time-barred? Is the amount and the point deduction right? That reading is exactly what we do — and when a court appeal is the right move, we tell you and hand your file to a practising lawyer.
Tell the guide what you received — a first notice, a resolution, a surcharge demand — and when. It maps your remaining options, the live deadlines and the classic defences. Free, no sign-up, nothing leaves your browser. (Tool in Spanish.)
Spain's abbreviated procedure (arts. 93–95 of the Traffic Act, RDL 6/2015) offers a deal: pay within 20 calendar days of notification and the fine drops by 50% — but paying closes the case and waives your allegations. Fighting it means presenting allegations within those same 20 days at full stake: if they fail, you pay 100%. That's why the decision deserves ten serious minutes: a fine with a solid defect is worth fighting; a correct fine is usually worth half price. We tell you which one yours is — honestly, with no promised outcomes.
The classic defences are procedural more often than dramatic: defective notification (wrong address, skipped steps before the edictal board), prescription of the infraction (art. 112: 3 months for minor, 6 for serious and very serious offences, counted from the day of the facts), expired procedures, errors in the vehicle, driver or precept cited, and radar margins. There's also the trap to avoid: a registered owner who ignores a driver-identification request faces a separate fine that can multiply the original. If allegations are dismissed, the reposición appeal gives you one month more; after that, court — with a lawyer, and your file ready.
Fines don't just arrive by post: companies and anyone enrolled in the electronic road address (DEV) is notified digitally, and unclaimed notifications end up on the public edictal board — deadlines running while nobody watches. Unpaid fines move to the tax agency with a 20% surcharge and, eventually, embargoes. Our notification-watch service exists for exactly this: we monitor your mailboxes and no deadline runs without you knowing. One more warning: fine notices by email are fraud — the DGT doesn't notify that way.
We read the notification against the file, check dates, notifications and prescription, draft and file your allegations or reposición appeal with stamped proof, and track the answer. Small fixed fee, told in advance. What we don't do: promise results (nobody honest can) or litigate in court — the contentious appeal belongs to a practising lawyer, and when your case deserves it, we'll say so and hand over a file that saves half the work.
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From notification of a Spanish traffic fine you have 20 calendar days to choose: pay at a 50% discount (closing the case and waiving allegations) or file allegations at full stake. A fine with a solid defect deserves a fight; a correct one usually deserves half price. Beware: emails announcing fines are fraud — the DGT does not notify that way.
The power to sanction prescribes at 3 months (minor infractions) or 6 months (serious and very serious), counted from the day of the facts. Together with defective notification (old address, straight-to-edictal-board service), it is the defence that rescues most late fines — even when the first news is already a 20%-surcharge demand. Reviewing the file decides whether there's a case.
