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"Madam President, Commissioner, there are a number of initiatives on safe, intelligent transport, which will contribute towards meeting the European objective of reducing by half the number of lives lost on EU roads by 2010. This is our primary objective.
We have at our disposal more and more technological resources that are capable of saving human lives and of reducing the seriousness of injuries. Examples of this include the considerable progress made in technologies, systems, services and safety, not to mention the potential offered by the development of Galileo. In this debate and in the subsequent vote, our task is to provide a vital impetus for the eCall system to be developed and rolled out across Europe by 2009.
I believe it is vitally important to support this system, given the need to lessen the impact of accidents and help the victims. If accident locations can be found quickly, the arrival times of rescue teams, police and towing firms can be drastically reduced. The system may save thousands of lives per year and help to reduce considerably both the degree of seriousness of the injuries and the costs relating to accidents.
The eCall project should be welcomed and deserves Parliament’s support. Yet this is not enough, Madam President, Commissioner. This kind of initiative depends on competition between large numbers of public and private organisations, including the car industry, telecommunications operators, equipment providers, motorway operators and insurance companies.
All of the stakeholders have broadly welcomed the initiative. It is therefore essential that the Member States that have yet to act upon the Memorandum of Understanding on implementing eCall do so without delay. If so, this project, aimed at better and more effective road safety, will be more workable.
This is investment, rather than a cost. This is the call that I should like to leave you with. I should like to congratulate the Commission on its initiative and Mr Titley on his outstanding report."@en1
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