Several Norwegian parking companies are now getting such large fines for breaking the law that they have to hand over millions every single week.
A Norwegian parking company is facing fines of 1.3 million kroner per week for bending the law just a little too much. In fact, way too much.
The Norwegian Consumer Authority has come up with the stalls, which even affect several parking companies, because the companies have repeatedly overstated how much they are allowed to charge in fees.
It is especially people in motorhomes that the parking companies have been chasing with excessively high fees. But drivers in ordinary passenger cars have also been affected.
This is what Motor writes.
The Norwegian Consumer Agency has announced that three major parking companies, Onepark, Apcoa and Aimo Park, will now have to pay fines every single week.
Must pay more than 1 million kroner in fines every week
This is precisely because of the parking companies' excessively high fees. Onepark risks weekly fines of 1.3 million kroner, Apcoa 950,000 kroner, and Aimo Park 250,000 kroner.
According to Norwegian legislation that came into effect in January 2023, for example, an invoicing fee may not exceed the actual costs associated with sending an invoice.
However, the Danish Consumer Agency's review of the three companies' practices in this area has shown that the companies are completely indifferent to the law.
Director of the Norwegian Consumer Agency, Bente Øverli, says that the fines are so high because they want to make it economically unattractive to send such high fees to drivers.
The fines will come into effect within three weeks and must be paid weekly unless the companies change their procedures. The parking companies have the opportunity to appeal the decision before April 9.
Although the case here is from Norway, many of the Danish parking companies are not any better. Boosted has, among other things, been able to tell how a parking company illegally charged parking fees in a place where they should not be. Read more about it here .
