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17 May 2012
Road safety has been included in the draft Rio+20 ‘outcome document’ during negotiations at the UN in New York.
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03 May 2012
The IRTAD Road Safety Annual Report 2011 has been released by the International Transport Forum at the OECD. The report shows the drop in road fatalities accelerated in 2010, but developments are less positive in 2011.
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02 May 2012
The European Commission recognises the important role which intelligent transport systems (ITS) can play in making Europe’s roads safer. The following newsletter gives an overview of the European Commission's activities in this area: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/pdf/news/nl8_en.pdf
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24 April 2012
All buses and lorries in the UK should be fitted with collision-avoidance technology by 2015, a report has recommended.
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24 April 2012
The European Parliament IMCO and TRAN committees held a joint meeting on 24 April 2012 to discuss the draft report “eCall: a new 112 service for citizens”.
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04 April 2012
With the latest statistics showing that 85 people are killed on European roads every day, Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas told the press, on 29 March, that the European Commission is worried.
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15 March 2012
This week, 65 000 members of the Swedish Motorcyclist Association, SMC, get a Medical Card kit. It includes four stickers to add on the helmet/s and a card for medical information to put between the shell and padding of the helmet. With this effort, SMC hope to save a few lives per year through fast and adequate rescue in case of an accident.
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08 March 2012
Innovation and legislation have reduced driving risks, and vehicles will become safer still in the future as new technologies are developed.
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20 February 2012
This leaflet shows the situation at the end of 2010 and the
progress made since 2001. Its purpose is to allow Member
States and European citizens to compare their situation and to
encourage them to continue their efforts regarding road safety.
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26 October 2011
The problem of child fatalities – the number of which have increased dramatically in Belarus during recent years, was a key target of the Belarussian Auto Moto Touring Club’s (BKA) activities for the Decade of Action.
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25 October 2011
Meeting the goals of the UN Decade of Action on Road Safety is a key priority for the Russian Automobile Federation (RAF), said President of the Club and Minister of the Interior, General Victor Kiryanov.
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20 October 2011
In June 2012 world leaders will meet in Rio de Janiero for the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development to identify challenges and agree new priorities for the international community.
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07 October 2011
Bosnia and Herzegovina has pledged itself to the FIA’s Action for Road Safety campaign with a programme intended to educate the country on the enormous benefits of wearing seatbelts and fitting child restraints.
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02 October 2011
A road safety action programme by the end of 2011, with a detailed catalogue of measures and implementing timetable: this is what the European Parliament asks of the European Commission in a resolution on road safety, adopted in plenary on 27 September.
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01 October 2011
Electronic Stability Control and Blind Spot Monitoring were two of seven life-saving eSafety technologies tested by Polish rally champions Tomasz Kuchar and Jan Chmielewski at Warsaw City Council on the first of October 2011.
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27 September 2011
A renewed focus on road safety as a key element of a sustainable EU Tourism Strategy has been welcomed today by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). This follows the adoption of a resolution by the European Parliament on the EU Tourism Strategy which has the goal of promoting Europe as the world's no. 1 tourism destination.
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08 July 2011
The European Commission has today published new statistics showing that EU road fatalities decreased by 11% in 2010.
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08 July 2011
The European Parliament yesterday (6 July) took a first step towards putting an end to the impunity of drivers who commit traffic offences in another EU country.
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30 June 2011
The European Bureau of the FIA, representing more than 35 million motoring consumers via its 71 member clubs, adopted its position on the European Commission White Paper on Transport on 30 June 2011.
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11 May 2011
The deployment of life saving eSafety technologies in cars is the focus of a new free iPhone application launched today with the support of motorsport’s top drivers. The application is created by the eSafety Challenge project with support from the European Commission, eSafetyAware, FIA, and the FIA Foundation.
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11 May 2011
FIA Road Safety Ambassador, Michael Schumacher, is calling on Members of the European Parliament to make sure eSafety systems are deployed in all new cars through legislation or voluntarily at today’s launch of the UN Decade of Action on Road Safety in Strasbourg.
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02 May 2011
Every six seconds someone is killed or injured in a road accident. Every day 3,500 people are killed in road crashes. Every year 1.3 million people are killed on the world’s roads. And unless urgent action is taken, the UN predicts that annual road deaths will rise to 1.9 million by 2020.
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29 April 2011
Planned activities in Croatia for the launch of the UN Decade of Action on Road Safety were the main subject for discussion when Jacob Bangsgaard, Director General FIA Region I, visited the Croatian automobile club HAK in Zagreb on 28-29 April
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15 April 2011
Automobile and Touring Club representatives from Botswana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uganda, and South Africa met today in Johannesburg to discuss club priorities for the FIA African Council of Touring & Automobile (ACTA) and possible areas for future cooperation.
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05 April 2011
The Formula One Driver will attend the eSafety Challenge event on 31st of May in Vienna, where he will demonstrate eSafety technologies and how they can help to prevent accidents on the roads.
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28 March 2011
White Paper on Transport focus on ITS welcomed but higher costs threaten consumer trust, says FIA
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22 March 2011
"We cannot afford to wait until 2017 to make the Antilock Braking System (ABS) compulsory in motorcycles. Our figures show that thousands of road fatalities could be prevented by acting now," the FIA tells EP public hearing.
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02 March 2011
EP rapporteur on the EU’s road safety strategy, Dieter-Lebrecht Koch (EPP, Germany), has requested that the Commission’s strategic communication on Road Safety 2011-2020, should translate into detailed
measures and common targets by the end of the year...
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23 February 2011
Euro NCAP today publishes the results of seven new vehicles, including its first test of a fully electric car, marking the start of a series of EV tests in 2011.
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14 February 2011
Automobile and Touring Club representatives from Botswana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uganda, and South Africa met today in Johannesburg to discuss club priorities for the FIA African Council of Touring & Automobile (ACTA) and possible areas for future cooperation.
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08 February 2011
With car numbers estimated to double from 800,000 million today to 1.6 billion over the next 25 years, we need more intelligent planning of cities, said Connie Hedegaard, the European Commissioner for Climate Action.
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07 December 2010
The EU’s transport ministers believe there is an urgent need to develop a
strategy aimed at increasing the safety of vulnerable road users...
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15 October 2010
ABS has proven to be the most effective of the recent braking systems, in terms of reducing the emergency braking distance and improving driving stability during braking.
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22 July 2010
The European Commission’s newly adopted Road Safety Strategy launches a new decade of action to reduce the number of road accidents, injuries and deaths over the next ten years.
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20 July 2010
The Commission adopted today the Road Safety Action plan for the next ten years.
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20 July 2010
Get more information about the road safety event organised in Brussels on October 12-13 for the benefit of EU, candidates and neighbouring countries...
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15 July 2010
Euro NCAP Advanced aims to provide car buyers with clear guidance about the safety benefits which these new technologies offer them and their families.
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13 July 2010
DEKRA published a report outlining road safety risks that are specific to motorcyclists and proposing measures to enhance their safety...
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12 July 2010
The Belgian Presidency 2010 announced that it would re-launch the negotiations and focus more specifically on the exchange of information, whilst respecting the data protection principles and procedural safeguards...
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30 June 2010
Before attending the eSafety Challenge in the UK next month, Euro NCAP presents an overview of its recent achievements and new objectives in car safety.
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24 June 2010
Henrik Hololei, Head of Cabinet of European Commissioner Siim Kallas reported that the strategy underwent significant changes in the past months...
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21 June 2010
Your clubs can participate in the European Road Safety Charter Contest by providing a short summary of one of your activities, in writing or in motion (pictures, films...)...
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02 June 2010
Two new languages: Dutch and French. Euro NCAP intends to release further languages Catalan, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish and the Swedish.
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12 May 2010
The Council adopted its position on ITS on May 10th. Although the Member States support the principle, they intend to remain in control of whether or not this will be introduced in their territory...
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30 April 2010
The EuroCouncil 2010 Declaration is "putting consumers at the heart of public policy”
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30 April 2010
EuroCouncil Declaration, 2010 - Putting mobile consumers at the heart of public policy
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26 April 2010
Using provisional data on road fatalities for 2009, compiled by the FIA European Bureau, a comparison with 2001 figures highlights the improvements achieved by most member states.
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24 March 2010
Touring abroad would be a lot safer if drivers were more aware of the way rules of the road change from country to country.
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05 March 2010
The UN General Assembly declaration of a decade of action for road safety. Find out more about the activities linked to this major event at the Brussels level...
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03 March 2010
The United Nations General Assembly yesterday passed a resolution to proclaim 2011-2020 a Decade of Action for Road Safety aimed at saving five million lives over the next 10 years.
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03 March 2010
Today, Euro NCAP releases the crash test results for five new cars the Citroen Nemo, the Kia Venga, the Nissan Cube, the Seat Exeo and the Toyota Verso.
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26 February 2010
FIA Eurocouncil Chairman, challenged Siim Kallas, to target unequivocal remedies for the road fatality and injury epidemic that persists on Europe’s highways.
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17 February 2010
In a letter sent to the newly elected Commissioner for transports, M. Siim Kallas, FIA Eurocouncil chairman stressed the importance of setting road safety targets in the upcoming Road Safety Action Plan along with other organisations...
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15 February 2010
The following overview is based on a clubs survey organised by the FIA European Bureau in 2009. It is based on 26 answers representing 24 countries from the European Union and beyond.
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28 January 2010
Top of this list is the Volkswagen Golf VI that was first tested in 2008 under the former rating scheme and was re-released in 2009.
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25 January 2010
FIA clubs have a defining interest in the mobility of all, including senior and disabled people.
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14 January 2010
While clubs play an important role in improving road safety at national level the FIA European Bureau has been working on developing a consolidated European strategy about the role that the European Union can play to support the efforts of member states .
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11 January 2010
Preliminary road safety figures released by the FIA European Bureau point to a continued reduction of both road fatalities and road injuries. However, governments must remain vigilant in order to maintain this positive trend.
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15 December 2009
Each year, more than 8,000 pedestrians are killed in the road accidents across Europe. Almost one out of four happens on a pedestrian crossing.
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04 December 2009
In 2008 the decrease of road fatalities amounts to 35% in the EU 15, but only 27% in EU 27 compared to 2001. FIA European Bureau welcomes the significant progress made by the European Union towards halving the
number of road fatalities by 2010.
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04 December 2009
The FIA Clubs believe that a shared effort and a shared responsibility as well as a strong political will and leadership are necessary to bring forward drastic changes.
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02 December 2009
The EU must promote a programme of safety engineering on high-risk roads across Europe if it is to reduce the annual €160bn (2 per cent of EU GDP) cost of road crashes by €50bn, according to the European Campaign for Safe Road Design.
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25 November 2009
Euro NCAP, the organisation dedicated to revealing the safety of new cars, today releases the results for twelve vehicles. Ten of these vehicles achieved Euro NCAP’s maximum award of five stars in the overall rating.
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02 October 2009
The Eurocouncil of the FIA raises its concerns at the approach taken by the Commission with regard to urban traffic congestion following the adoption of the Action Plan on Urban Mobility.
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30 September 2009
The proper functioning of the EU’s transport system is essential to its competitiveness and the quality of life of its citizens.
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29 September 2009
In its answer to the consultation the FIA Eurocouncil will underline the need to have high level commitment, strong leadership, clear objectives and precise targets.
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08 September 2009
European Clubs have been waiting for the launch of a revamped EU road safety policy. Proposals could arrive in Spring 2010 for adoption before the end of next year.
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24 August 2009
Road safety is a priority of the first order for all FIA members. For a number of years now our ‘vision zero’ strategy has been a key driver in our battle for safer roads. This vision postulates that all of our efforts should be based on the belief that any road death is one death too many and we should strive to reduce risk of death on the road to zero.
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24 August 2009
The FIA European Bureau is involved in a range of projects. We'll update you on just four of them: FOT-Net, iCars Network, eSafetySupport and eSafetyAware.
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02 July 2009
The FIA Eurocouncil particularly welcomes the high importance given by the Swedish Presidency to ITS as their wider implementation will significant contribute to making mobility more reliable, more efficient, cleaner and safer.
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02 July 2009
FIA and German Minister of Transport Wolfang Tiefensee think that the introduction of such trucks in Europe would bring little benefits and a lot of extra societal costs...
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29 June 2009
The FIA believes that the disadvantages related to a relaxing of the currently allowed dimensions and weights for lorries far outweigh the advantages.
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29 June 2009
Two motorcylces listed in RAPEX...
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15 June 2009
Chief executives and presidents of FIA automobile clubs for the 2009 FIA Eurocouncil summit to discuss road safety in Europe in anticipation of the 4th European Road Safety Action Programme expected to run from 2011-2020.
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11 June 2009
The FIA European Bureau along with five FIA member clubs renewed their commitments first made over three years ago. True to its commitment to encourage clubs to join this initiative, the FIA brought a further eight clubs on board.
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27 May 2009
Euro NCAP, the organisation that assesses the safety of new cars, today releases the results for six new cars.
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18 May 2009
In a year of exceptionally tough competition the Automovel Club Portugal won the FIA Legal & Consumer Affairs Award 2009.
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18 May 2009
The FIA European Bureau has collected updated figures on road safety for 2008. Baltic countries have made impressive gains, whilst the EU's newest members slipped back. We examine efforts to reduce road fatalities.
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23 April 2009
South-east Europe is changing fast. Efforts to join the European Union are fuelling political changes across the board, not least in the area of transport and mobility.
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12 March 2009
According to the priorities of the Czech Presidency, the high number of people killed on European roads requires an enhancement of Europe-wide effort to improve road safety.
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12 March 2009
A European Road Safety Action Programme for 2011-2020 is currently in the making. FIA road safety experts took time out to brainstorm ways forward for road safety.
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09 February 2009
600 child lives could be saved on EU roads
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09 February 2009
Study on Compensation of victims of cross-border road traffic accidents
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15 January 2009
The EU plans to come up with a new European Road Safety Action Programme for 2011-2020. Ahead of final adoption, late in 2009 or early 2010, FIA clubs used the Verona International Road Safety Exhibition, 20-21 November last, as a venue for brainstorming about ways forward for road safety.
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17 December 2008
Today, the European parliament backed the cross-border enforcement of penalties for speeding, drink-driving, not wearing a seatbelt and running a red light. These four offences are responsible for most fatalities on European roads.
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04 December 2008
Highways authorities across Europe should follow the lead of France, Spain and the Netherlands, and a appoint a motorcycle champion, tasked specifically with safe road design for bikers.
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24 November 2008
Almost one in four of Europe's 8,000 pedestrian fatalities is killed on supposedly “safe” crossings. Aiming to pinpoint problems for pedestrian safety, but also to show best practice, EuroTest tested crossings in 17 major European cities.
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21 November 2008
Haulage companies, freight transport federations, and heavy goods vehicle manufacturers have lobbied hard to promote the use of longer heavier vehicles (LHVs) – the so-called “monster trucks” or “giga liners”. But will this be good for European drivers?
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27 June 2007
Open Letter for Safer Roads
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15 September 2006
Response of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) to the public consultation of the European Commission on narrowing excessive differences in the tax levels applicable to commercial diesel
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18 July 2006
Position of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) to the European Commission’s consultation paper on the "Review of the Biofuels Directive"
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