ANSR
Published 30 October 2026, 20:39
ANSR — Autoridade Nacional de Segurança Rodoviária (national road safety authority)
The body responsible for road safety and traffic fines. Decisions on offences are made either by ANSR or by the municipality, depending on how serious the offence is. The officer who wrote the ticket in the street does not decide: an objection goes not to them but to the authority named in the notice.
Where you come across it. A speeding or parking fine, an objection to a ticket, checking your own record of offences.
ANSR never sends notices of offences by email, text message or messaging apps, only by post, and they never contain payment links. The authority itself issued this warning on 30 June 2026: a message with a “fine” and a payment button is a scam.
Official website: ansr.pt