Translation of "Bureau de la sécurité routière communautaire " (French → English) :

The general framework for Community actions regarding road safety had been presented in a recently adopted Road Safety Action Programme.

The Communication on the third Road Safety Action Plan prepared by the Directorate General for Transport and Energy will lay down the general framework and strategy for Road Safety;

Whereas, in its White Paper on the Future Development of the Common Transport Policy and its communication for an action programme on road safety, the Commission considers that, bearing in mind the significant differences in the levels of road safety in different Member States, a major priority in this area should be to promote the exchange of information and experience by the setting up of a Community database;

The Commission is proposing that action be taken in seven priority areas: (i) exchange of information and experience, the setting-up of a Community data bank on accident statistics (CARE project), and specific RD operations; (ii) active and passive vehicle safety; (iii) user education and driver training; (iv) initiatives relating to behaviour, with research being carried out in order to supplement existing measures; (v) infrastructure and road safety; (vi) measures to promote improvements in the safety of the transport of dangerous goods by road; (vii) the problem of aspects of advertising which are bad for road safety.

RESOLUTION ON YOUNG DRIVERS "THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, AND THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES, MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL Having regard to the Resolution of the European Parliament of 12 March 1993 on a Community programme for action on road safety (1), which recognizes the need for a new, improved campaign of assistance for young inexperienced drivers and calls on the Commission to devote special attention to them; Whereas in its communication for an action programme on road safety the Commission st ...[+++]ates that it will examine, on the basis of experience acquired by the Member States, the specific problems encountered by young drivers in traffic; Whereas in this connection the Commission particularly emphasized the part which can be played by information and awareness campaigns and publicity as means of educating road users, within the framework of national road safety policies; Whereas in the conclusions which it adopted at its meeting on 29 and 30 November 1993 on the said communication the Council drew attention to the need to focus in particular on the causes of the most serious accidents and on the categories of users most frequently involved in road accidents or victims of them; (1) OJ C 115, 26.4.1993, p. 260. Whereas young drivers of cars and two-wheel vehicles, as a result of their inexperience, constitute a particularly vulnerable group of road users, AGREE that 1995 will be considered as the Year of the Young Driver; CALL on the Commission to co-ordinate this initiative with the Member States within an appropriate framework, so that concrete and effective measures are taken to ensure that this initiative has the greatest possible impact on the public concerned".

The Council welcomes the publication of the Progress Report (see point 8 below), which forms part of the second Community action programme for the promotion of road safety in the European Union for the period 1997 - 2001.