Fine from EPC for having no vignette in Hungary

[Ethel Street]

Are you planning to return to Hungary in the same car? Possibly they have methods of enforcement in Hungary but I have no definite information about that. Otherwise I agree, do not pay.

Please do come back if this develops at all and let us know what happens. It would be good to know what EPC do next. What I've seen on other forums can be frustrating because posters hardly ever come back and say what the outcome was.

Euro Parking Collection plc [EPC], as I expect you've found out, are a UK debt collector with their registered office in London (subsidiary of a large US corporation) specialising  in collecting foreign parking/traffic offence charges from UK residents, and collecting charges from foreign drivers/owners on behalf of UK organisations, mainly public authorities like TfL.

Presumably the DVLA recognise EPC as having "reasonable cause" to ask for registered keeper details or EPC wouldn't have been able to contact you.

Unusually for these sorts of companies they publish on their website pdf copies of the formal Power of Attorney documents authorising them to act as agent for the foreign organisation. The one for Hungarian vignettes is here ---> 148 (epcplc.com)  It authorises EPC to bring court actions in UK courts as agent for National Toll Payment Services plc (Budapest).  However that doesn't mean that the UK small claims court will allow such a claim to be brought and there seem to be many opinions on the internet about whether that is possible.

So I agree you should not pay it. But if you get a formal letter before claim from EPC or any court papers do not ignore them and come back here for advice.