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"Mr President, road accidents take a deadly toll on our societies, and, as my colleagues have said, full implementation of the automated eCall system would allow us to save thousands of lives. Unfortunately, the take-up of this system, which has been an EU priority for 10 years, remains negligible and is confined to very high-end vehicles.
It is obvious that the market-led approach taken so far has failed and will fail to mainstream this lifesaving technology, so I thank Ms Sehnalová and Mr Koch for their work on this report and I endorse their proposals to make the 112-based eCall system mandatory and free of charge for all new vehicles by 2015. The Commission’s impact assessment clearly demonstrates the necessity of legislating along these lines so as to secure universal adoption and economies of scale.
I am particularly eager to see the benefits of eCall materialise in rural areas, where the system has the potential to reduce emergency response times by half. Lives can be lost on rural roads in isolated areas, especially where the precise location of the vehicle cannot be established. I thus look forward to the Commission proposal to make the deployment of eCall mandatory."@en1
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