Brussels, 23/10/2012 (Agence Europe) - The European directive establishing minimum safety criteria for tunnels (EC 2004/54) has awarded good marks on the ground. The EuroTap tunnel test was carried out on ten key tunnels of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) and results show that the level of safety has considerably improved - and so much the better as, by 2019, the directive stipulates that all tunnels over 500 metres long must comply with its safety provisions.
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