Brussels, 20/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 19 May, the European Commission sent reasoned opinions to 11 member states (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Luxembourg) calling for appropriate procedures to be set in place for improving the safety of the trans-European road network, in accordance with EU law. These procedures include road safety impact assessments, road safety audits and safety rankings of the network, a Commission press release points out. Commission reserves relate to the directive on the safety of the road infrastructure of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) (2008/96/EC), which requires member states to make road safety impact assessments to demonstrate the implications on road safety of different planning alternatives of an infrastructure project. The directive also provides for road safety audits to be prescribed to identify in detail the unsafe features of a road infrastructure project. Finally, rules and procedures on safety management for when the road is built are set out in the directive. None of the above-mentioned member states have fully transposed the directive into national law as they were required to do by 19 December 2010. A member state, that fails to inform the Commission of measures taken to comply with EU law within two months, may be brought before the EU Court of Justice. (A.By./transl.jl)