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implementing EU-wide road safety legislation to ensure all EU nationals are treated equally when traffic rules are broken.

encouraging road users to drive more safely by creating a European road safety education and training strategy.

To do so, they would seek to make users, vehicles and infrastructure, safer through a mix of measures national cooperation, sharing best practice, research and studies, awareness campaigns and in some cases possibly regulation.

The new EU road safety guidelines would aim to cut European road deaths by 50 % by 2020. Towards a European Road Safety Area What is the issue?ĭespite success through previous EU programmes, European roads are still far from safe in 2009, 35,000 people died in traffic accidents and over 1.7 million were injured. Network Safety Ranking and Road Safety Inspections are targeted at the existing TEN-T road network whilst Road Safety Impact Assessments and Road Safety Audits are targeted at new TEN-T roads. The directive sets out four areas of analysis in relation to existing roads and new roads. The Directive requires all Member States to undertake Road Safety Audits, Road Safety Impact Assessments, Road Safety Inspections and high-frequency Collision Investigations on the TEN-T roads. In the White Paper on European Transport Policy for 2010 and in its Communication on a European Road Safety Action Programme of June 2003, the European Commission announced that it would take the initiative on road infrastructure safety and subsequently the European Parliament invited the Commission to provide guidelines for high-risk spot management and road safety audits.ĭirective 2008/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on Road Infrastructure Safety Management has the objective to ensure that safety is integrated in all phases of planning, design and operation of road infrastructure in the Trans-European Road Network (TEN-T).