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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-02-20
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[01] European Road Safety Charter
[01] European Road Safety Charter
The European Road Safety Charter was presented at the European
Parliament's headquarters in Athens on Wednesday. It is an initiative
aimed at reducing deaths in the European Union by 50 percent by the
year 2010 and saving 25,000 lives a year.
"We still have a long way to go. We must wage the battle, utilising the
experience of the other countries of the EU and we must influence the
mentality of the citizens," Transport and Communications Minister
Costas Hatzidakis said on the occasion, and announced a series of new
measures that will reverse the country's unfavourable factors on the
issue of road safety.
Hatzidakis said that it is a life challenge for all that must be
handled very seriously in Greece as well, that has much higher death
rates than the European average.
Main points have already been promoted with the 2nd strategic framework
on Road Safety for the 2006-2010 period, such as the new traffic code
that has begun to produce results since, as it appears from data
concerning the last six months in 2007, the victims of traffic
accidents have decreased by 13 percent compared to the same period in
the previous year.
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