4 Amendments of Dieter-Lebrecht KOCH related to 2016/0288(COD)
Amendment 672 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 102 – paragraph 1
Article 102 – paragraph 1
(1) Member States shall ensure that all end-users of the service referred to in paragraph 2, including users of public pay telephones and users to whom internal emergency numbers are available, are able to access the emergency services through emergency communications free of charge and without having to use any means of payment, by using the single European emergency number ‘112’ and any national emergency number specified by Member States.
Amendment 683 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 102 – paragraph 3
Article 102 – paragraph 3
(3) Member States shall ensure that all emergency communications to the single European emergency number ‘112’ are appropriately answered and handled in the manner best suited to the national organisation of emergency systems, taking account of the need to provide a multilingual answering service for such calls. Such emergency communications shall be answered and handled at least as expeditiously and effectively as emergency communications to the national emergency number or numbers, where these continue to be in use.
Amendment 691 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 102 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 102 – paragraph 3 a (new)
(3a) The Commission, acting in coordination with the relevant competent authorities, shall adopt a recommendation on performance indicators for the Member States and shall, by (...) and thereafter every two years, forward to the European Parliament and the Council reports on the effectiveness of the use of the European emergency number ‘112’ and the functioning of the performance indicators.
Amendment 704 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 102 – paragraph 5
Article 102 – paragraph 5
(5) Member States shall ensure that caller location information is available to the PSAP without delay after the emergency communication is set up. This shall include both network-based location information and device location information, if available. Member States shall ensure that the establishment and the transmission of the caller location information are free of charge for the end- user and to the authority handling the emergency communication with regard to all emergency communications to the single European emergency number ‘112’. Member States may extend that obligation to cover emergency communications to national emergency numbers. Competent regulatory authorities shall lay down criteria for the accuracy and reliability of the caller location information provided.