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1. By 20 January 2029, and every four years thereafter, each Member State shall send a report to the Commission on the application of this Directive. The report shall contain data and statistics corresponding to each calendar year of the reporting period.

2. The report shall indicate the number of automated searches conducted by the Member State of the offence in accordance with Article 4(1) and addressed to the national contact point of the Member State of registration, following road-safety-related traffic offences listed in Article 2(1) that were committed on its territory, together with the type of the offences for which requests were addressed and the structured number of failed requests according to the type of failure. This information may be based on the data provided through EUCARIS. The report shall also include a description of the situation at national level in relation to the follow-up given to the road-safety-related traffic offences and any related problems encountered by Member States. The description shall at least specify:

(a) the total number of registered road-safety-related traffic offences listed in Article 2(1) which were detected automatically or without the identification of the person concerned on the spot;

(b) the number of registered road-safety-related traffic offences listed in Article 2(1) which were committed with vehicles registered in a Member State other than the Member State in which the offence took place and detected automatically or without the identification of the person concerned on the spot;

(c) the number of fixed or removable automatic detection equipment, including speed cameras;

(d) the number of financial penalties paid voluntarily by non-residents;

(e) the number of electronically transmitted mutual assistance requests and responses in accordance with Article 5c and the number of such requests where the information was not provided;

(f) the number of electronically transmitted mutual assistance requests and responses in accordance with Article 5e and the number of such requests where it was not possible to serve the documents;

(g) the number of electronically transmitted mutual assistance requests and responses in accordance with Article 5f, the number of such requests where it was possible to enforce the sanctions and the number of such requests where it was not possible to enforce the sanctions.

3. The report shall also indicate the number and type of road-safety-related traffic offences listed in Article 2(1) committed by drivers with a vehicle registered in a third country.

4. The Commission shall assess the reports sent by the Member States and inform the committee referred to in Article 10a(1) on their content no later than 6 months after receiving the reports from all the Member States.