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"The new directive represents an important new development in identifying and punishing foreign offenders who commit serious offences such as, for example, speeding, driving under the influence of drugs or failing to stop at red traffic lights, which cost many lives each year.
Thanks to a new procedure for exchanging information between Member States on vehicle registrations, it will be simpler to trace foreign offenders who, all too often, enjoy unjustified impunity due to the impossibility of applying effective penalty procedures.
Even the Commissioner for transport, Siim Kallas, pointed out that the chances a foreign driver will commit an offence are three times higher compared with residents and that many seem to believe that when they are abroad, the rules do not apply to them. With this directive, we want to put a stop to this dangerous situation.
Let us remember that in 2010, there were 30 926 road deaths in the European Union and that the economic costs to society are estimated to be EUR 130 billion per year. Although there has been an 11% fall in the number of victims compared with the previous year, much remains to be done to guarantee our citizens greater road safety throughout the EU."@en1
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