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"A broad safety action plan and implementation of that action plan have been extremely high priorities for the Commission, and there really has been tremendous progress: we have substantially reduced the number of accidents in Europe. I can tell you that, in my own country, the annual death toll at the beginning of the 1990s was 400, whereas last year it was 78 – and that is, of course, with a tenfold increase in the number of vehicles on the roads. It is a substantial change.
This is important, and thank you very much Ms Ayala Sender for reminding us about the cross-border enforcement of traffic violations, which is an extremely important step towards improving road safety. That decision was adopted by the Council in December and we will now implement it.
I do not believe that increasing the number of legislative acts at European level is a panacea: that whatever problem we have, we must have European legislation.
However, while everybody criticises the fact that we have too much EU legislation, in my view, this is an issue about which Member States are as worried as the European public in general, and if cross-border enforcement of traffic violations can create a European space for road safety, that is very important."@en1
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