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Let me first welcome the consistent activity of Mrs Hedkvist Petersen on the issue of road safety, including eSafety. She has a real case here, because the number of road accident fatalities in the current European Union of 15 Member States was about 40 000 per year in 2001. This figure is unacceptably high and, therefore, we have the ambitious target to halve this number by 2010.
A wide range of actions are being taken by the EU and the Member States to make this target a reality, with the result that, according to preliminary data, the number of persons killed on Europe’s roads last year amounted to about 35 000 persons.
The Commission has recognised the great potential of the new information and communication technologies in saving lives by mitigating the consequences of accidents or even completely avoiding them. In September last year the Commission adopted a communication entitled 'Information and Communications Technologies for Safe and Intelligent Vehicles'. It proposes 11 measures that promote the rapid development and deployment of new active safety systems in Europe.
The work in realising the actions proposed by the Communication is under way. We have established, together with the industry, Member States, stakeholders and Members of Parliament, the 'eSafety Forum'. Under the forum seven working groups are active on priority eSafety topics. The first results are available in the 2003 Summary Report, which is available on our eSafety website. We would very much welcome the opinion of the European Parliament, as well as a commitment from Member States.
The Commission is also considering mandating the installation in commercial vehicles of electronic systems whose effectiveness has been proven in practice, such as electronic stability systems for buses and heavy goods vehicles.
Furthermore, the Commission is using the Sixth Framework Programme to develop further the technologies for in-vehicle active safety systems. An integrated project, 'Prevent' – which has over 50 partners and an overall budget of EUR 60 million, with about EUR 30 million of Community funding – is the most important project in this area."@en1
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