European Transport Safety Council (ETSC)
Wednesday 18 June 2014, 12.30 - 18.30
The ETSC Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) annual event, report launch and award ceremony will take place in Brussels on 18 June 2014. Find out more
3 April 2014, Rome
ETSC and ANIA Foundation for Road Safety have the pleasure to invite you to the first SMART (Sober Mobility Across Road Transport) international drink driving conference on 3 April 2014 in Rome. Find out more
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March 2014
Safety Monitor 90
Newsletter
The latest edition of our newsletter Safety Monitor is now online.
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18 March 2014
MEPs say yes to safer lorries
Press release
The European Parliament's transport committee has voted overwhelmingly in support of proposals to improve the safety of heavy goods vehicles. The revised rules on lorry dimensions will allow for cabs with improved visibility, especially important for the safety of pedestrians and cyclists in urban areas.
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13 March 2014
The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) - Safeguarding Safety
Briefing
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a trade agreement that is currently being negotiated between the European Union and the United States. It aims to remove trade barriers in a wide range of economic sectors including passenger cars. The EU and the U.S. also want to tackle barriers such as differences in technical regulations, standards and approval procedures.
ETSC stresses that, it is essential that common vehicle safety standards are moved up, not down. ETSC emphasises that there is an urgent need to compare the different standards so as to work out item by item which standards are higher and suited to the EU. ETSC calls on the EC not to rush into merging the two vehicle safety standards and approaches. Both need to be evaluated and assessed carefully. The EU should not allow a harmonisation with U.S. standards unless EU vehicle safety standards can be matched or bettered.
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March 2014
Speed Monitor 14
Newsletter
Read the first edition of our redesigned policy newsletter, Speed Monitor.
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26 February 2014
Parliament green light for new car emergency call system
Press release
The European Parliament has backed EU plans for all new types of car and van to be fitted with automated emergency call devices (eCall). However, the Parliament backed away from a 2015 deadline for the introduction of the technology, pending discussions with EU member states.
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11 February 2014
MEPs back plan for cars to call 112 automatically
Press release
The European Parliament's internal market committee has backed EU plans for all new types of car and van to be fitted with automated emergency call devices but opened the door to postponing their introduction beyond the proposed deadline of October 2015.
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February 2014
Drink Driving Monitor 20
Newsletter
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27 January 2014
Weights and dimensions of heavy goods vehicles - maximising safety
Briefing
ETSC strongly supports the need for the front end design of HGVs to be improved to reduce the current risks to both car occupants and vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists (VRUs). A change in design could have a significant impact on the number of deaths and serious injuries involved in collisions with HGVs.
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January 2014
Safety Monitor 89
Newsletter
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20 December 2013
Memorandum to the Greek Presidency of the EU
Briefing
In this briefing, ETSC outlines its recommendations on the key EU road safety policy dossiers to be steered by the Greek presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2014. These include securing agreements on EU legislation on automated in-vehicle emergency calling (eCall) and safer lorry design. We also examine the main recent and forthcoming policy initiatives from the European Commission including progress on in-vehicle safety technologies such as Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) for professional vehicles and alcohol interlocks for certain vehicle and driver categories, with recommendations for maximising the results for road safety.
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