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29 May 2013
On Thursday 30 May, the European Parliament Transport committee is voting on the roadworthiness package and on the further harmonisation of vehicle testing frequency.
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07 May 2013
The Brussels Transport community came together to participate in a Long Short Walk for Pedestrian Safety yesterday (6 May), led by EC Vice-President Kallas, and coordinated by the FIA Region I office, to mark European Road Safety Day and the beginning of the UN Global Road Safety Week.
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06 May 2013
This year’s European Road Safety Day is on 6 May, the first day of the UN Global Road Safety Week. To mark the occasion, the CLEPA, eSafetyAware, and the FIA invite the road safety community and the general public to join a walk led by EC Vice President Kallas for pedestrian safety (beginning at Schuman Roundabout at 16:00) and to experience demonstrations of advanced life-saving vehicle technologies at Autoworld (14:00-20:00).
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16 April 2013
The iMobility Challenge will showcase the benefits of the latest cooperative systems for intelligent mobility at this year’s International Transport Forum on 22-24 May 2013 in Leipzig.
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08 April 2013
The ACTA Learnership Programme, funded by the FIA Development Fund and coordinated by FIA Region I, kicked off on 8 April 2013 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The event, hosted by AA Tanzania, was focused on supporting the work of ACTA Clubs on insurance and tourism, key elements of the ACTA Development Plan.
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19 March 2013
While nearly two thirds of all European car drivers feel confident enough to give first aid, only 18 percent know what to do when they are the first to arrive at the scene of an accident. In other words, motorists tend to largely overestimate their first-aid skills.
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14 March 2013
A draft proposal on the emergency call ‘eCall’ system is currently being circulated within Commission services with the goal of implementing the technology by 2015 in all new vehicles. The FIA welcomes the expected publication, following a number of delays.
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18 January 2013
The introduction of the 3rd EU Driving Licence tomorrow (19 January 2013) will be an important step towards making cross-border travel easier, improving road safety, and make counterfeiting of licences more difficult, says FIA Region I Director General, Mr Jacob Bangsgaard.
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13 December 2012
Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB has reached a milestone. Since the programme’s launch in 2006, ANWB Streetwise – the club’s road safety awareness programme – has made one million kids “streetwise”. Six ANWB Streetwise teams of professional instructors work nationwide to teach some 200,000 children each year.
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30 November 2012
IAM presented yesterday at their annual lunch in London their new report on safety for older drivers. There are currently almost 4 million drivers over 70, this is set to increase by 49 per cent by 2032.
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01 October 2012
The mandatory EU-wide introduction of the Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS) for all new type-approved motorbikes over 125cc from 2016 (rather than the originally proposed date of 2017), was a key provision agreed between the European Parliament and Council of Ministers on Friday 28 September.
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27 September 2012
The European Commission has published today a new report on the implementation of the social legislation in road transport in the Member States.
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26 July 2012
South Africa has held its launch of the Zenani Mandela campaign and awarded the Zenani Mandela Scholarship certificate to this year’s recipient, Beauty Mokua.
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26 July 2012
Nigel Mansell, the former racing world champion, has highlighted the ‘perfect storm’ of circumstances surrounding drivers’ first crashes in a new report co-launched by the UK Automobile Association and the Make Roads Safe campaign.
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25 July 2012
By bringing together all EU stakeholders responsible for the design of road safety policy, policy implementation and youth representatives, the EU Road Safety Day marks an important day in the future shaping of road safety policy.
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12 July 2012
The average sentence for causing death by dangerous driving in the UK is just four years – 62 per cent shorter than for manslaughter, according to road safety charity the IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists).
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17 May 2012
Road safety has been included in the draft Rio+20 ‘outcome document’ during negotiations at the UN in New York.
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03 May 2012
The IRTAD Road Safety Annual Report 2011 has been released by the International Transport Forum at the OECD. The report shows the drop in road fatalities accelerated in 2010, but developments are less positive in 2011.
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02 May 2012
The European Commission recognises the important role which intelligent transport systems (ITS) can play in making Europe’s roads safer. The following newsletter gives an overview of the European Commission's activities in this area: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/pdf/news/nl8_en.pdf
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26 April 2012
Siim Kallas speech on working together to reduce deaths on Europe's roads (European Transport Safety Council, Drink Driving Seminar).
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24 April 2012
All buses and lorries in the UK should be fitted with collision-avoidance technology by 2015, a report has recommended.
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24 April 2012
The European Parliament IMCO and TRAN committees held a joint meeting on 24 April 2012 to discuss the draft report “eCall: a new 112 service for citizens”.
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24 April 2012
“The road is now paved for the European Commission to follow the key recommendations on eCall set out by the European Parliament”, said Werner Kraus, President of the FIA Region I office, ahead of a joint meeting of the European Parliament TRAN and IMCO committees to discuss an own-initiative report on eCall today.
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04 April 2012
With the latest statistics showing that 85 people are killed on European roads every day, Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas told the press, on 29 March, that the European Commission is worried.
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15 March 2012
This week, 65 000 members of the Swedish Motorcyclist Association, SMC, get a Medical Card kit. It includes four stickers to add on the helmet/s and a card for medical information to put between the shell and padding of the helmet. With this effort, SMC hope to save a few lives per year through fast and adequate rescue in case of an accident.
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08 March 2012
Innovation and legislation have reduced driving risks, and vehicles will become safer still in the future as new technologies are developed.
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02 March 2012
The refusal by a Member State to issue a driving licence cannot justify non-recognition of a licence obtained subsequently in another Member State.
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23 February 2012
The Czech Minister of Transport, Mr Pavel Dobeš, met with UAMK President, Dr Oldřich Vaníček, and FIA Region I Director General, Jacob Bangsgaard, on 23 February 2012 in Prague to discuss the possibility for closer cooperation on road safety awareness activities.
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20 February 2012
This leaflet shows the situation at the end of 2010 and the
progress made since 2001. Its purpose is to allow Member
States and European citizens to compare their situation and to
encourage them to continue their efforts regarding road safety.
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10 November 2011
The ECOWILL consortium (Ecodriving Wide-spread Implementation for Learners and Licensed Drivers) on ecodriving (spanning over 13 European countries), has published a questionnaire designed to assess drivers' knowledge and acceptance of ecodriving principles, as well as their willingness and readiness to undertake ecodriving training courses.
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03 November 2011
A new report titled 'Tackling Fatigue: EU Social Rules and Heavy Goods Vehicle Drivers' has been published as part of the ETSC PRAISE project, Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees.
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01 November 2011
Traffic law amendments will enter into force in Slovakia from 1st of November 2011. The main changes are outlined below.
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27 October 2011
An international conference on 'Emerging Issues in Safe and Sustainable Mobility for Older Persons' was hosted by the Transportation Research Board on 30 August – 1 September 2011 in Washington DC. Here you will find a summary report.
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20 October 2011
In June 2012 world leaders will meet in Rio de Janiero for the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development to identify challenges and agree new priorities for the international community.
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07 October 2011
Bosnia and Herzegovina has pledged itself to the FIA’s Action for Road Safety campaign with a programme intended to educate the country on the enormous benefits of wearing seatbelts and fitting child restraints.
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05 October 2011
With the FIA World Rally Championship taking place in Alsace on 29th September to 2nd October, the French Automobile and Touring Club ACAFA (L’Automobile Club, Association Française des Automobilistes) set up a ‘Village of Responsible Mobility’ to mark the occasion.
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02 October 2011
A road safety action programme by the end of 2011, with a detailed catalogue of measures and implementing timetable: this is what the European Parliament asks of the European Commission in a resolution on road safety, adopted in plenary on 27 September.
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02 October 2011
The new directive that will allow member states to exchange information to combat road traffic offences has completed its legislative course. The Council of Ministers officially adopted, on 29 September, the second-reading text agreed with Parliament, a compromise between the two institutions.
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27 September 2011
A renewed focus on road safety as a key element of a sustainable EU Tourism Strategy has been welcomed today by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). This follows the adoption of a resolution by the European Parliament on the EU Tourism Strategy which has the goal of promoting Europe as the world's no. 1 tourism destination.
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19 September 2011
This weekend the FIA Action for Road Safety campaign received an endorsement from some of its most important constituents: children. FIA President Jean Todt was on hand to praise those taking part in the European Traffic Education Contest, an annual event designed to raise awareness of road safety, and this year held in Paris.
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14 July 2011
Eco-driving is on the environmental agenda of most governments and international institutions, but few road users today have actually ever received eco-driving training. In most countries, being familiar with the principles of eco-driving is simply not a requisite to obtain a driving license.
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08 July 2011
The European Commission has today published new statistics showing that EU road fatalities decreased by 11% in 2010.
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08 July 2011
The European Parliament yesterday (6 July) took a first step towards putting an end to the impunity of drivers who commit traffic offences in another EU country.
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30 June 2011
The European Bureau of the FIA, representing more than 35 million motoring consumers via its 71 member clubs, adopted its position on the European Commission White Paper on Transport on 30 June 2011.
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11 May 2011
The deployment of life saving eSafety technologies in cars is the focus of a new free iPhone application launched today with the support of motorsport’s top drivers. The application is created by the eSafety Challenge project with support from the European Commission, eSafetyAware, FIA, and the FIA Foundation.
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11 May 2011
FIA Road Safety Ambassador, Michael Schumacher, is calling on Members of the European Parliament to make sure eSafety systems are deployed in all new cars through legislation or voluntarily at today’s launch of the UN Decade of Action on Road Safety in Strasbourg.
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02 May 2011
Every six seconds someone is killed or injured in a road accident. Every day 3,500 people are killed in road crashes. Every year 1.3 million people are killed on the world’s roads. And unless urgent action is taken, the UN predicts that annual road deaths will rise to 1.9 million by 2020.
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05 April 2011
The Formula One Driver will attend the eSafety Challenge event on 31st of May in Vienna, where he will demonstrate eSafety technologies and how they can help to prevent accidents on the roads.
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28 March 2011
White Paper on Transport focus on ITS welcomed but higher costs threaten consumer trust, says FIA
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22 March 2011
"We cannot afford to wait until 2017 to make the Antilock Braking System (ABS) compulsory in motorcycles. Our figures show that thousands of road fatalities could be prevented by acting now," the FIA tells EP public hearing.
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17 March 2011
The Council adopted its first-reading position on a draft directive facilitating cross- border exchange of information on March 17th...
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23 February 2011
Euro NCAP today publishes the results of seven new vehicles, including its first test of a fully electric car, marking the start of a series of EV tests in 2011.
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21 January 2011
A driver is 23 times more likely to be in an accident if texting. Texting while driving is deemed to be responsible for thousands of road deaths annually, while the number of personal injuries rise at an alarming rate year on year...
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10 December 2010
The Council reached an agreement in first reading, whereby the number of offenses encompassed increases from 4 to 8...
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07 December 2010
The EU’s transport ministers believe there is an urgent need to develop a
strategy aimed at increasing the safety of vulnerable road users...
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18 October 2010
A discussion on the status of the cross border enforcement directive was held in the European Parliament on October 14th. FIA European Bureau reports...
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13 September 2010
ETSC published a position paper on the directive proposal on cross border enforcement in the field of road safety...
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22 July 2010
The European Commission’s newly adopted Road Safety Strategy launches a new decade of action to reduce the number of road accidents, injuries and deaths over the next ten years.
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20 July 2010
The Commission adopted today the Road Safety Action plan for the next ten years.
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12 July 2010
Find out more about driving licenses' renewal in European countries and their implications for senior drivers...
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28 April 2010
Ageing drivers do not have more accidents than the rest of the driving population - in fact their safety record is better than that of many young drivers...
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16 February 2010
Latest news about the driving license directive, which will be coming into force in 2013. Learn more about each category of vehicle concerned...
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15 February 2010
The following overview is based on a clubs survey organised by the FIA European Bureau in 2009. It is based on 26 answers representing 24 countries from the European Union and beyond.
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11 January 2010
Preliminary road safety figures released by the FIA European Bureau point to a continued reduction of both road fatalities and road injuries. However, governments must remain vigilant in order to maintain this positive trend.
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29 September 2009
In its answer to the consultation the FIA Eurocouncil will underline the need to have high level commitment, strong leadership, clear objectives and precise targets.
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31 August 2009
Effective driver training is one way to reduce the number of accidents. FIA Eurocouncil is backing that contention thanks to clubs' special driver training programs, according to a recent survey of driver training at the national level.
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24 August 2009
In our vision, the transport offer of the future encompasses all different transport modes, which need to be combined to allow an efficient door-to-door mobility. Ultimately, what is good for older citizens is good for all of us and we firmly believe that citizens would indistinctly benefit from the development of an efficient transport offer.
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24 August 2009
Road safety is a priority of the first order for all FIA members. For a number of years now our ‘vision zero’ strategy has been a key driver in our battle for safer roads. This vision postulates that all of our efforts should be based on the belief that any road death is one death too many and we should strive to reduce risk of death on the road to zero.
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30 June 2009
Staffordshire and GreenRoad Recognised for Programme to Reduce Crashes Among Young Drivers...
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23 June 2009
Education: the key to further safety progress Driver education is an important issue for motoring and touring clubs. It is seen by many as the key to gaining further progress in terms of road safety.
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11 June 2009
The FIA European Bureau along with five FIA member clubs renewed their commitments first made over three years ago. True to its commitment to encourage clubs to join this initiative, the FIA brought a further eight clubs on board.
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24 March 2009
The European Union Road Federation, the Brussels Programme Centre of the International Road Federation (ERF – IRF BPC) is setting up a new cycle of road safety engineering training Workshops in Central and Eastern Europe...
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09 February 2009
600 child lives could be saved on EU roads
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09 February 2009
Study on Compensation of victims of cross-border road traffic accidents
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15 January 2009
We kindly invite you to a Breakfast Workshop in the European Parliament, hosted by Zita Gurmai MEP with the support of ERTICO – ITS Europe, on 20th January 2009, from 8.30 to 10.00.
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15 January 2009
The EU plans to come up with a new European Road Safety Action Programme for 2011-2020. Ahead of final adoption, late in 2009 or early 2010, FIA clubs used the Verona International Road Safety Exhibition, 20-21 November last, as a venue for brainstorming about ways forward for road safety.
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17 December 2008
Today, the European parliament backed the cross-border enforcement of penalties for speeding, drink-driving, not wearing a seatbelt and running a red light. These four offences are responsible for most fatalities on European roads.
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04 December 2008
Highways authorities across Europe should follow the lead of France, Spain and the Netherlands, and a appoint a motorcycle champion, tasked specifically with safe road design for bikers.
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