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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11716

2 February 2017
Contents Publication in full By article 13 / 27
SECTORAL POLICIES / Transport
Commission seeking to modernise training for road drivers
Brussels, 01/02/2017 (Agence Europe)

On Wednesday 1 February, as part of its “Better regulation” (REFIT programme) initiative, the European Commission proposed another revision of the directive on the initial qualification and periodic training for road drivers (directive 2003/59/EC).

Transport Commissioner, Violeta Bulc, explained that, “new impetus is needed if we are going to attain the European objective of halving the number of fatalities on the road by 2020”. The Commission therefore wants to modernise driver...

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