Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-10-Speech-3-197"
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"Mr President, earlier today we had the publication of the European Transport Safety Council report on EU progress on reducing road deaths by half by 2010. It contains some good and some bad news.
Yes – countries have made improvements, and that is to be welcomed, but overall road deaths are still too high and the EU will not, on current trends, achieve its road death reduction targets. In fact only three Member States – Luxembourg, France and Portugal – will achieve the target set. They have succeeded in reducing road deaths by over 8% a year.
It is worth remembering that over 39 000 people were killed on the roads in the EU in the last 12 months. Had we achieved our targets, 5 000 people would still be alive today. I regret that Ireland, my own country, is still in the lower half of the league when it comes to making those necessary improvements.
We could take messages from the best performing countries. They have put in a great deal of commitment and political will to improve enforcement in a number of key areas. The EU has just three years left to put in place measures that could see us achieving our targets of reducing road deaths by half. The experience shows it can be done but we need a fresh impetus at EU level to achieve that."@en1
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