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17 December 2008
Today, the European parliament backed the cross-border enforcement of penalties for speeding, drink-driving, not wearing a seatbelt and running a red light. These four offences are responsible for most fatalities on European roads.
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08 December 2008
“The compromise reached between European Parliament representatives and French Presidency representatives risks to jeopardise the sustainability of mobility to the detriment of European consumers” declared Wil Botman, Director General of the FIA European Bureau.
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05 December 2008
The FIA welcomes the outcome of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee vote on the Proposal concerning type-approval requirements for the general safety of motor vehicles.
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04 December 2008
The EU will soon have a simpler, standardised system for the type-approval of motor vehicles, following a vote on Tuesday by Parliament's Internal Market Committee.
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04 December 2008
Highways authorities across Europe should follow the lead of France, Spain and the Netherlands, and a appoint a motorcycle champion, tasked specifically with safe road design for bikers.
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04 December 2008
Recent decades have seen a large number of ICT-based transport applications successfully developed and demonstrated in collaborative research projects throughout Europe.
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02 December 2008
Following a series of meetings between MEPs and the French Presidency of the Council, the two sides have informally agreed details of future targets on CO2 emissions from cars.
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26 November 2008
Euro NCAP today releases the results for some of Europe’s best-selling cars. This is the last time that Euro NCAP will release results under its current rating system.
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26 November 2008
Today, Euro NCAP releases the results for seats put through the organisation’s first ever round of rear impact testing.
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24 November 2008
Almost one in four of Europe's 8,000 pedestrian fatalities is killed on supposedly “safe” crossings. Aiming to pinpoint problems for pedestrian safety, but also to show best practice, EuroTest tested crossings in 17 major European cities.
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21 November 2008
Haulage companies, freight transport federations, and heavy goods vehicle manufacturers have lobbied hard to promote the use of longer heavier vehicles (LHVs) – the so-called “monster trucks” or “giga liners”. But will this be good for European drivers?
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14 November 2008
The FIA calls for more to be done to safeguard mobility when assessing the Cars 21 high level conference.
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14 November 2008
Since 1 July 2008, a new motorway toll sticker “vignette” system for passenger cars and motorcycles is applicable in Slovenia.
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14 November 2008
The FIA has been warning policy makers of a slowdown, and even a turnaround, in the reduction of road deaths. We asked Region 1 staffers to explain the story behind the statistics.
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14 November 2008
EuroTest’s latest survey reveals that Europe’s roads are still too cluttered with road signs. Drivers remained confused.
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14 November 2008
Under the lead of ANWB the European FIA clubs organised the second edition of the EcoTour, based on the concept elaborated by some FIA clubs in the nineties. 14 clubs participated and so did the FIA European Bureau.
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05 November 2008
Today, Euro NCAP moves closer to its vision “for safer cars” with the release of details about the scoring behind the organisation’s new car safety rating.
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05 November 2008
Over the last few years the European Union has – sometimes in parallel, sometimes in contradiction to national policies – developed an independent approach on infrastructure charging.
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03 November 2008
The FIA European Bureau is looking for a Projects Coordinator to coordinate its projects portfolio.
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29 October 2008
“Major challenges remain for the automotive sector and the future of mobility. If Europe is tommaintain its global competitiveness, dramatic yet affordable improvements in safety and environmental performance are needed” said Wil Botman, Director General of the FIA European Bureau in his assessment of the Cars 21 High Level group review.
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28 October 2008
EuroTest’s latest survey reveals that 61% of the drivers surveyed consider the presence of too many signs as well as misplaced signs to be the main reasons why European drivers get lost when driving in unknown environments and areas.
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22 October 2008
The European Commission welcomes today’s support of the European Parliament for its proposal to promote a broad market introduction of clean and energy efficient vehicles through public procurement.
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13 October 2008
Today sees the second European Road Safety Day. To mark this event, the European Commission is holding a conference in Paris on road safety in cities in cooperation with the French Presidency.
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29 September 2008
EcoTest is a test developed jointly by German automobile club ADAC together with the FIA Foundation. In use since 2003, EcoTest rates vehicles of various classes and sizes in order to give consumers key information when buying cars.
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29 September 2008
“Manufacturers must provide drivers with accurate and standardized data on the fuel consumption of mobile air-conditioning systems,” argues Wilfried Klanner from the FIA's European Bureau.
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29 September 2008
Increased motoring costs don't automatically equal a better environment!
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29 September 2008
Future car fleets will rely on a mixture of different propulsion technologies. In the near future, hybrid electric vehicles will increase their market share with plug-in-hybrids following. Second generation bio-fuels, battery electric vehicles and eventually hydrogen cars will also add further diversification.
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26 September 2008
“The European Parliament’s decision is a courageous one. Keeping the course towards the 120 g/km of CO2 by 2012 will benefit European consumers and support Europe’s competitiveness globally” declared Wil Botman, Director General of the FIA European Bureau.
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26 September 2008
“The large-scale deployment of dedicated daytime running light systems will move road safety a big step forward” said Werner Kraus, Chairman of the FIA Eurocouncil.
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17 September 2008
FIA European EcoTour 2008 from Barcelona to The Hague challenges 42 teams and their fuel-efficient vehicles to discover who is the greenest of them all.
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27 August 2008
Euro NCAP today releases the results for five cars in five different vehicle classes: the Daihatsu Cuore, Hyundai i30, Lancia Delta, Renault Koleos and the Mercedes Benz - ML class.
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15 July 2008
EuroTest, a pan European consumer testing programme and consortium of FIA clubs in Europe has been putting the quality and safety of Europe’s mobility infrastructure to the test since 2000.
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15 July 2008
The FIA in general welcomes measures that optimise and relieve road freight transport unless they threaten safety, the environment or the road infrastructure.
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15 July 2008
The FIA in general welcomes measures that optimise and relieve road freight transport unless they threaten safety, the environment or the road infrastructure.
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10 July 2008
Formula 1 World Champion, Kimi Räikkönen, will take part in the European Youth Forum for Road Safety in Brussels on 10 July, at the invitation of Mr Antonio Tajani the Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Transport.
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10 July 2008
“The proposals published today by the European Commission will only raise the costs of motoring while not bringing any benefits to the environment” declared Wil Botman, Director-General of the FIA European Bureau.
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10 July 2008
Automobile Club Action + and Automobile Club Prévention of France join initiative.
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07 July 2008
On top of oil prices predicted to rise to over USD 200 per barrel, European car drivers face the world's highest fuel taxes. We look at how some clubs are reacting and what they propose doing to beat the price hike.
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07 July 2008
Despite the bloc's ambitious goal to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020, Commission proposals due to be unveiled tomorrow (8 July) would effectively prohibit governments from including the cost of CO2 emitted by road transport in their toll tariffs.
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07 July 2008
On the basis of 31 European tunnels tested for EuroTAP 2008, the positive trends witnessed in recent years came to a sudden stop.
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03 July 2008
Bulgarian MEP Nickolay Mladenov is a member of the European Parliament's committee on internal market and consumer protection.
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01 July 2008
Actions needed to change slow take up of life saving vehicle technology. Electronic Stability Control (ESC) could save 4,000 lives each year in Europe alone.
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27 June 2008
To choose the most eco-friendly transport option: two internet tools launched by UIC at the European Environment Agency.
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27 June 2008
There are a staggering 220 million cars on Europe's roads and that number is growing all the time.
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27 June 2008
Trio Presidency transport ministers summarise accomplishments achieved during the last eighteen months
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25 June 2008
“The European Parliament’s adoption of the long-awaited road infrastructure safety management directive is a positive step” said Werner Kraus, Chairman of the FIA Eurocouncil.
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24 June 2008
Starting in Barcelona on 13 September 2008 (with a prologue on 12 September 2008), the EcoTour will finish at The Hague on 19 September 2008, coinciding with the ANWB symposium “Towards Zero Emissions”.
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23 June 2008
Higher safety standards for road infrastructure a priority for MEPs.
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23 June 2008
Take-up of intelligent car technologies remains very low, given their potential, says Parliament in an own-initiative report adopted by MEPs.
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23 June 2008
What are the structural factors behind the rising oil prices?
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18 June 2008
The EU has today initiated anti-subsidy and anti-dumping investigations into imports of biodiesel from the United States.
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18 June 2008
At a hearing before MEPs on Monday, Antonio Tajani, the Italian Commissioner-designate for transport, faced around three hours of questions on issues such as state subsidies for airlines, trans-European rail-freight corridors, port infrastructure and piracy in EU waters.
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11 June 2008
Lack of information and high prices drive consumers away from ESC
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09 June 2008
The European motoring clubs, members of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), together comprising the Eurocouncil of the FIA, representing within Europe 34 million motorists, issued the following declaration at its annual meeting on 23 April 2008 in Antwerp, Belgium.
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06 June 2008
As one of the major environmental policy events of the year bringing in some 3,800 participants, Green Week 2008 gave the FIA European Bureau an excellent opportunity to put forward the FIA's vision on the sustainability of transport.
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06 June 2008
by Stavros Dimas, Member of the European Commission, responsible for Environment.
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05 June 2008
“Thinking green” is of importance to the motoring and touring clubs members of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA). This is why the FIA is focussing its activities in 2008 on the interaction between the automobile and the environment.
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03 June 2008
At the ‘Initial Rider Training’ event, organised by the Commission (Joel Valmain) with FEMA, FIM and ACEM, the new head of the road safety unit of DG TREN, Isabelle Kardacz chaired the event.
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03 June 2008
This year's Green Week, the biggest annual conference devoted to European environment policy, will take place from 3 to 6 June at the Charlemagne Building in Brussels.
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03 June 2008
R2RC acknowledges the ‘open outcome approach’ taken by the Commission in its Evaluation Report but reminds that sector-specific rules for the distribution of spare parts and repair services after 2010 are a necessity.
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29 May 2008
European Commission’s Evaluation of the Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation must safeguard Consumer Choice and affordable mobility beyond 2010.
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29 May 2008
Antitrust: Commission report on car block exemption shows that competition has improved.
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29 May 2008
European Commission’s Evaluation of the Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation must safeguard Consumer Choice and affordable mobility beyond 2010.
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28 May 2008
Euro NCAP today releases the results for seven cars in five different categories, mostly aimed at consumers with families.
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28 May 2008
EuroTest’s latest pan-European study undertaken by major automobile clubs* in ten European countries points to the need for harmonisation needed on national traffic rules for pedestrian crossings.
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27 May 2008
European petroleum industry partners with the European Commission in pan-European consumer campaign.
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26 May 2008
On Thursday 29 May 2008, the Ministers for Competitiveness competent for industrial policy and the internal market are to convene in Brussels.
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26 May 2008
European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, responsible for Enterprise and Industry, stated: "We are simplifying legislation. We are improving road safety. We are promoting fuel efficiency. We are presenting a modern integrated policy approach beneficiary for citizens, for the environment and the industry.''
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30 April 2008
Focus on increasing traffic flows and the environment.
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29 April 2008
The Commission is coming forward with a proposal for a Regulation on the general safety of motor vehicles which will lay down harmonised rules on the construction of motor vehicles.
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29 April 2008
Electronic Stability Control – ESC – has been hailed the greatest road safety innovation since the seatbelt. 4,000 lives and 100,000 injuries could be avoided every year if all cars in the EU had ESC!
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28 April 2008
European Tunnel Assessment Program (EuroTAP 2008 inspectors came home with the worst results in five years.
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22 April 2008
Today in Ljubljana, EU Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potočnik opened the Transport Research Arena 2008 Conference and Expo, together with Radovan Žerjav, Slovenian Minister for Transport.
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21 April 2008
Capturing carbon dioxide at source from vehicles in the transportation sector and small-scale power plants could significantly cut overall carbon emissions to the atmosphere in the short-term.
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17 April 2008
iCars Network coordinated by the FIA European Bureau holds first partner meeting in Brussels.
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16 April 2008
Low Emission Zones have so far appeared in over 70 cities and towns in Europe where the most polluting vehicles are regulated. But are such zones effective?
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15 April 2008
Wilfried Klanner (1942) was born in Vienna, Austria, and studied Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. His doctors thesis was made on a study on Diesel engines.
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15 April 2008
EU citizens will soon be better protected from the negative health effects of fine dust particles, thanks to a new directive on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe.
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15 April 2008
Events in schools multiply considerably.
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11 April 2008
Implementation must remain in hands of local authorities
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10 April 2008
Transport in the EU27 - Road accounts for almost three quarters of total freight transport
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09 April 2008
Preliminary figures released by the FIA point to an unexpected slowdown or even turnaround in the reduction of road deaths. Governments need to step up action if they want to meet safety targets.
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08 April 2008
Take-up of intelligent car technologies remains very low, given their potential, says the Transport Committee in a report adopted on Tuesday.
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07 April 2008
Commissioner Viviane Reding today presented driver training certificates to eight EU citizens who had played the Intelligent Car Quiz.
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07 April 2008
The Commission has decided to send to Malta a formal request to amend its car registration tax rules which discriminate against second-hand cars brought into Malta from other Member States.
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07 April 2008
FIA member Automobile Club of Luxembourg ACL offers driver training to Intelligent Car Quiz winners.
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02 April 2008
Spring brings renewal and this spring in parliament MEPs will be considering a new Commission directive on renewable energy.
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02 April 2008
The FIA welcomes the increased role of biofuels in the EU’s Climate Change and Energy policy. But biofuels should not come at any economical, social and environmental costs.
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02 April 2008
Plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles offer a promising pathway to a sustainable transport future that reduces risks of climate catastrophe and possible conflict over dwindling oil resources, a new WWF analysis has found.
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31 March 2008
“Clubs must defend mobility in the current policy debates over internalizing the so-called external costs of traffic.” That is the conclusion of a two-day workshop on road charging held in Barcelona.
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31 March 2008
FIA clubs want real action from the EU on unsafe cars being imported into Europe.
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28 March 2008
Climate change: Continued momentum needed as formal negotiations on new UN climate agreement get under way.
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27 March 2008
Driving through a city in the same manner as through the countryside, avoiding acceleration and thus cutting CO2 emissions: this may be possible thanks to car-embedded software.
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27 March 2008
Almost all West-European countries now levy some form of CO2 tax on passenger cars.
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25 March 2008
Europe's road transport has made a clear contribution to economic growth, but its environmental performance is still unacceptable.
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21 March 2008
ISO develops new management system standard for improving road safety on global level.
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20 March 2008
The new ordinance governing pollutant groups for motor vehicles comes into force in March 2007.
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20 March 2008
EU should level the playing field and amend its proposed road safety directive to include all traffic offences.
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19 March 2008
Equal treatment of resident and non-resident drivers.
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18 March 2008
Ahead of celebrating international consumer day, Meglena Kuneva explains how consumer policy can help translate the commission’s ideas into everyday language.
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16 March 2008
As the leading European mobility organisation, the FIA has unbiased consumer orientated expertise in a variety of transport issues, including road safety, traffic information and incident management.
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14 March 2008
Euro NCAP today releases results for its assessment of the modified Nissan Navara.
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07 March 2008
Sustainable motoring needs to become a shared responsibility between industry, policy makers and mobile consumers.
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07 March 2008
Taking advantage of its excellent government contacts during a period in which Slovenia holds the six-month rotating EU Presidency, national club AMZS has been campaigning hard for Electronic Stability Control (ESC).
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26 February 2008
Euro NCAP is happy to announce that it is now testing ‘pick-up’ vehicles.
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25 February 2008
We, the undersigned organisations (representing a broad range of road users, road safety organisations, public authorities, infrastructure operators and industries), welcome the proposal for a Directive on Road Infrastructure Safety Management.
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21 February 2008
Newest FIA research confirms figures released last September showing an unexpected slowdown in the improvement of road safety in Europe.
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15 February 2008
The Presidency of the Council of the European Union is currently held by Slovenia for a period of six months.
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15 February 2008
A policy workshop on Road pricing: Use of Environmental Traffic Restrictions and the External Costs arising from Transport, coordinated by the FIA European Bureau took place in Barcelona on 6 and 7 February 2008.
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15 February 2008
FIA President Max Mosley called for the European Commission to honor its commitment to speeding up the widest availability of eSafety as a standard item on cars sold in Europe.
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15 February 2008
The European Parliament has finally adopted a decision backing the European Commission's proposal to end design protection for visible car spare parts such as such as body panels, bumpers, bonnets, car glass, lights and wings.
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15 February 2008
Much work still needs to be done towards make the strategy for CO2 reduction more comprehensive and integrated, even if the Commission's approach is basically sound.
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01 February 2008
In the world of tunnel operators and national road ministries, the European Tunnel Assessment Programme (EuroTAP) is a feared testing stone, separating the bad from the good.
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15 January 2008
The FIA, one of the founding members of Euro NCAP, recently held a conference titled “Euro NCAP, Beyond 5 Stars” to discuss and debate the future development of the European New Car Assessment programme.
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