European Parliament
Tomáš Zatloukal (PPE-DE ).
(CS)
Mr President, the Titley report is a positive step towards enhancing road safety. The eCall system, which will help save human lives on Europe’s roads and reduce the severity of injuries, will have a very favourable cost-benefit ratio. Our response to the growing volume of road traffic needs to be enhanced passive and active road safety. As part of the world-renowned eSafety initiative, the eCall system is a priority item belonging to a programme covering,
inter alia
, advanced driver assistance systems, lane departure warning and the collision mitigation system. The incorporation of the Galileo system is a further improvement to this state of the art technology which will benefit Europe’s transport. The eCall system will serve the hundreds of millions of citizens who every year travel abroad by car. Accordingly, I voted in favour of the report on making eCall available to citizens.

