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"Thank you for also coming to ask me about one of the important questions which will, I hope, enable us to improve road safety in Europe.
The Commission confirms that it is looking into the feasibility of an initiative to introduce daytime use of dipped headlights on all motor vehicles. As you point out, this measure appears in several national highway codes and has in any case been recommended in other Member States. If the examination proves positive, the Commission intends submitting its proposal after the publication of the mid-term review of the European road safety programme I mentioned just now and which is expected in the second half of this year. We shall see how to respond to this suggestion.
In the meantime, the Commission will continue its consultations with the circles concerned, in particular the motor industry. We need, for example, to look at the possibility of introducing, for new vehicles, special lights that would be switched on automatically when moving off. These new lights will use less power than dipped headlights, because one of the objections made to us is about the energy used by having them on during the day. When we come to update the road safety programme, we will try to answer this question in the light of all the experience and of all the lessons drawn from that experience."@en1
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