13 Amendments of Georges BACH related to 2010/2235(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Endorses the Commission’s view that if road safety is to be improved a coherent, holistic and integrated approach is required, and calls for road safety issues to be addressed in all relevant policy areas, such as education, health, environmental and social policy and police and judicial cooperation;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Proposes that the office of EU Road Safety Coordinator should be created by 2014a European road agency should be created that would play a coordinating role in certain areas of road transport, such as safety and compliance with social regulations in road transport, along the lines of the European railway and aviation agencies;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission and Member States officially to recognise the third Sunday in November as the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, as the United Nations and World Health Organisation have already done, in order to raise public awareness of this issue;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to do more to encourage exchanges of proven practices among the Member States so that more of them can be incorporated into national road safety plans, thereby contributing to the creation of a single safety area on Europe's roads;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission to have a study drawn up on the economic and social impact of road deaths and injuries on society in the EU Member States;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to draw up by 2012 a proposal to improve the data available concerning the causes of accidents and injuries and in this connection to consider conducting multidisciplinary analyses to determine the causes of accidents;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to draw up within two years definitions of the terms ‘critically injured’, ‘seriously injured’ and ‘slightly injured’ with a view to making comparisons of measures and their impact in the Member States possible; calls further for these categories of ‘critically injured’, ‘seriously injured’ and ‘slightly injured’ to be increasingly incorporated into road safety awareness campaigns;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to honour existing commitments to transfer data and to make concrete progress towards the exchange of data in the case of cross- border traffic offences;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls, in the context of driver training, for greater attention to be paid to the main causes of road deaths, such as speeding, driving while drunk or under the influence of drugs, failure to wear a seat belt or other protective equipment and the use of mobile communications devices while driving; calls, further, for the introduction of compulsory safety training for young and new road users so that they can gain practical experience in coping with a variety of dangerous situations;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Regards the enforcement of existing rules as a central pillar of the EU’s road safety policy; calls, in that connection, on the Member States to set annual national targets for checks on speeding, drink- driving or driving whilst under the influence of drugs and the wearing of seat belts and to take determined action to ensure that such checks are carried out;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Calls for greater account to be taken of the protection of vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, cyclists, and children and elderly pe, as an integral aspect of road safety; in the light of demographic trends in Europle, as an integral aspect of road safetycalls for greater attention to be paid to the needs of elderly people and persons with reduced mobility as road users;