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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11027
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) transport

European Parliament says e-call will be compulsory in 2015

Strasbourg, 26/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - An automatic dialling system for reporting road accidents, eCall, will have to be installed in all new vehicles from October 2015 onwards, according to a European Parliament vote on Wednesday 26 February. MEPs voted by 485 to 151 for a report by Olga Sehnalova (S&D, the Czech Republic) on reducing the number of deaths on European roads and speeding up arrival times for emergency services, which will be automatically informed of accidents and a...

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