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| They have been talking about this for years.
The basic issue is "who pays for the administration?"
I mean, for example, how much money is Switzerland willing to spend to collect fines from Swiss drivers and then send it all to France (probably a lot of money). Versus France collecting fines from French drivers and then send it all to Switzerland (probably not much). Because a lot of Swiss visit France for holidays but not many French visit Switzerland. So potentially France makes a big profit & Switzerland a big loss.
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One would think that the Swiss police would take an amount from that to cover costs. Bilaterral doesn't necesarily mean "free". They've probably agreed an amount payable for each fine for administration. And the database lookups are apparently automatic anyway, the French have access to the Swiss database and vice versa, meaning there is very little cost involved for the two countries once the databases are connected.
And what gives you the idea that there are more Swiss in France than French in Switzerland?? France may be larger, but it also has a much larger population. (About 62 million against 7.5 million) So it seems likely that there are as many French in Switzerland as there are Swiss in Frencherland.. Given that Swiss speeding fines are much larger than the French ones (according to my father in law) the Swiss are probably onto a bit of a cash cow..