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EU considers pan-European crackdown
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A EUROPEAN Parliament committee wants the European Commission to develop legislation empowering police and courts across the EU to deal with traffic. offences conunitted in any EU state.
This would involve law enforcement officials investigating and prosecuting offences, as well as enforcing fines and other penalties imposed in other countries.
A spokesman for the European Parliament Transport Committee says it has acted because: "Crossborder enforcement of road traffic law remains very unsatisfactory" within the EU... "The time is ripe for an EU-wide approach to ena ble authorities to follow up offences and penalties imposed in another member state." This would "dramatically improve road safety," he suggests, -as most accidents are the results of a failure to comply with traffic rules".
The proposal will be debated by the full parliament in September; its adoption by a large majority would put pressure on the EC to table these ideas for formal agreement by MEPs and EU ministers.
An Vatanen, the MEP for Marseille (and former world-class Finnish rally driver), says that his plan could prevent many deaths on ELT roads.