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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8512

26 July 2003
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/emergency services
Commission recommends rapid deployment of location enhanced emergency services

Brussels, 25/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - In a recommendation, the European Commission invites the Member States to promote the European emergency number, 112, and to develop the telecommunications sector with operators for the automatic localisation of those calling in. The effectiveness of emergency assistance can be greatly increased by systems providing automatic transfer of location information to emergency centres for both fixed and mobile callers. Thus, from 25 July 2003, under the...

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