European Parliament
President.
We shall take the last question from Commissioner Liikanen.
Question No 48 by Ewa Hedkvist Petersen 
Subject: E-safety programme
More than 50 000 people die and 1.7 million are injured every year in the EU in road accidents. This situation is unacceptable. Road safety can be improved by building safer vehicles which also operate more safely. Information technology can be used to achieve that goal. Can the Commission say what stage has been reached with the e-safety programme and what progress has been made in that programme to improve road safety in Europe?

