Starting from 1st April 2004: obligatory warning waistcoats in Italy

• 1. starting with 1st April 2004 it is obligatory to wear in certain occasions a warning waistcoat. This is also necessary in case of admitted vehicles abroad, thus for all, who are driving their cars on Italian roads.
• 2. The warning waistcoat rule has to be followed on ordinary extra urban roads highways as well as on the chargeable motorways' save spurs and passing places.
• 3. If the visibility for whatever reason, either during the day or by night is limited (less than 100 meters), it is obligatory to wear warning waistcoats.
• 4. Wearing warning waistcoats is obligatory, if the guider or the occupants for whatever reasons, as described under point 2 and 3, abandon the vehicle.
• 5. Foreigners are not obligated to be in possession of a warning waistcoat, which corresponds exactly to the prescribed standards by the Italian ministry of traffic, but their warning waistcoats have to keep normal safety standards.
• 6. Violation of this norm will be penalised with an administrative fine of Euro 33,60 to Euro 137,55 and the detraction of 2 points (starting with summer 2003 in Italy a system with 20 points for driving license was adopted).
• 7. Not the lack of a warning waistcoat inside the car will be fined, but the defaulted wearing of the coat in the described situations under point 2 and 3.

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