Transport Ministers adopt Verona Declaration

Publication date: 24 October 2003

The Transport Ministers from the current and future Member States met in Verona/Italy for an informal Council on road safety.

They approved the so-called Verona Declaration, which lays down 10 guidelines calling for stricter road-safety and monitoring rules, and which aims to reduce the number of accident-related road deaths by 50% by 2010.

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