21 Amendments of Evelyne GEBHARDT related to 2018/0145(COD)
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) Road safety is the Union-wide issue that needs to be tackled through an integrated approach at Union, national, regional and local level. It is therefore necessary to coordinate steps and measures taken by different authorities in different areas, including the enforcement of transport regulations, health care, education, improvement of infrastructure or vehicle type approval and technical controls of their capability.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Over the past decades, developments in vehicle safety have contributed significantly to the overall reduction in the number of road fatalities and severe injuries. However, these reductions have recently stalled in the Union due to various factors, such as structural and behavioural factors, and without new initiatives on general road safety, the safety effects of the current approach will no longer be able to off-set the effects of increasing traffic volumes. Therefore, the safety performance of vehicles needs to be further improved as part of an integrated road safety approach aiming at the Vision Zero goal of “no fatalities” and in order to protect vulnerableall road users better, in particular vulnerable ones.
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) As some of proposed measures require substantial road infrastructure interventions, including necessary investments, phased implementation strategy for these measures should be introduced. Considerations should be therefore given to requirements for accurate traffic sign recognition, in particular speed limits. The Commission should also assess a public support and level of user’s acceptance for those measures, and promote them through road traffic safety awareness campaigns.
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Technical progress in the area of advanced vehicle safety systems substantially changes the conditions in the field of road transport and offers new possibilities for reducing casualty numbers. In order to minimise the number of fatalities and severe injuries, some of the relevant new technologies need to be introduced. Those systems that have proven to be fully developed in order to improve road safety significantly should be introduced on compulsory basis.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Activation status of each assistance system, including warnings, should be sufficiently differentiated to ensure that it is intuitively clear to the driver which system is activated and how it should be used. Issues related to the operation of these systems should be incorporated into the driver’s training by driving schools and professional in- service training as well as tested in on- road conditions.
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 b (new)
Recital 4 b (new)
(4b) Vehicles of all categories will continue to be technically more complex and more demanding for maintenance and repairs in the near future. New technologies should therefore have a favourable cost-benefit ratio throughout the whole life cycle of the vehicle so to be affordable for all consumers and not increasing average age of the vehicle fleet on European roads.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Intelligent speed assistance, lane- keeping systems, driver drowsiness and attention monitoring and distraction detection and reversing detection systems have a high potential to reduce casualty numbers considerably. The driver drowsiness and attention monitoring systems should work without any facial recognition. In addition, those systems are based on technologies which will be used for the deployment of connected and automated vehicles too. Therefore, harmonised rules and test procedures for the type-approval of vehicles as regards those systems and for the type-approval of those systems as separate technical units should be established at Union level.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) It is widely recognised that the safety belt is one of the most important and effective vehicle safety features. Safety-belt reminder systems therefore have the potential to further prevent fatalities or mitigate injuries by increasing the safety belt wearing rates across the Union. It is therefore necessary to make it compulsory to install intelligent safety- belt reminder systems for all front and rear seats of M1 and N1 vehicles and all front seats of N2, N3, M2 and M3 vehicles.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The introduction of event (accident) data recorders storing a range of crucial vehicle data over a short timeframe immediately before, during and immediately after a triggering event (for example, the deployment of an airbag) is a valuable step in obtaining more accurate, in-depth accident data. MAll motor-vehicles should therefore be required to be equipped with such recorders. It should also be a requirement that sSuch recorders arshould be capable for recording and storing data in such a way that the data can be used by Member States only to conduct road safety analysis and assess the effectiveness of specific measures taken without the possibility of identifying the owner or the holder of the vehicle.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Any processing of personal data, such as information about the driver processed in event (accident) data recorders or information about the driver on drowsiness and attention monitoring or advanced distraction recognition, should be carried out in accordance with EU legislation on data protection, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation28. In addition, the processing of personal data collected through the 112-based eCall in- vehicle system is subject to specific safeguards29. __________________ 28 Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1. 29 Regulation (EU) 2015/758 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2015 concerning type-approval requirements for the deployment of the eCall in-vehicle system based on the 112 service and amending Directive 2007/46/EC, (OJ L 123, 19.5.2015, p. 77).
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 13
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 13
(13) ‘event (accident) data recorder’ means a system solely designed for purpose of recording and storing critical crash-related parameters and information before, during andimmediately, and in any case not longer than 10 seconds, before, during and immediately, and in any case not longer than 5 seconds, after a collision;
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 13 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 13 a (new)
(13a) ‘safety-belt reminder’, means a system dedicated to alert the driver when any of the occupants do not use the safety-belt. The system is constituted by a detection of an unfastened safety-belt and by two levels of driver’s alert: a first level warning and a second level warning;
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Manufacturers shall provide clear and comprehensive information in the owner’s manual about the existence of the systems introduced by this Regulation and how to use them.
Amendment 197 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) it shall be possible for the driver to feel through the accelerator pedalrecognise that the applicable speed limit is reached or exceeded;
Amendment 223 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Driver drowsiness and attention monitoring systems shall be designed in a way that these systems do not continuously record nor collect any data, including for the purpose of the accident data recorder.
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Vehicles of categories M1 and N1 shall be equipped with advanced systems capable of detecting vulnerable road users and providing a warning or avoiding collision with such vulnerable road users.
Amendment 237 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Advanced emergency braking systems, pedestrian and cyclist collision warning and lane-keeping systems shall meet the following requirements in particular:
Amendment 258 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. All seating positions of M1 and N1 categories of vehicles shall be equipped with safety-belt reminder.
Amendment 279 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. The seating position of the driver of N2, N3, M2 and M3 categories of vehicles as well as the seating positions of the occupants of seats in the same row as the driver seat of N2, N3, M2 and M3 categories of vehicles shall be equipped with a safety-belt reminder.
Amendment 288 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point d
Amendment 296 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 a (new)
Article 14 a (new)
Article 14a Reporting and review 1. By 31 March 2021, the Commission shall prepare and submit an evaluation report to the European Parliament and to the Council on the following issues: (a) technical feasibility and road infrastructure readiness, including traffic sign recognition; (b) users’ acceptance analysis. Member States, regardless of their relative population or geographical location, shall be proportionally represented in the data collected. 2. The Commission shall assess whether the scope of this Regulation should be extended to other potential safety technologies and measures, in particular intelligent speed assistance system that would provide driver with a haptic feedback through the accelerator pedal and advanced distraction recognition. If appropriate, the Commission shall present a legislative proposal to that effect.