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Road safety: Council of the EU approves conclusions to strengthen the EU’s efforts to achieve its road safety objectives (18.06.2024) – The Council of the EU has approved conclusions on a European Court of Auditors’ (ECA) report aiming to strengthen EU’s efforts to achieve its road safety objectives. The text highlights the importance of investing on high-quality, resilient, and sustainable road infrastructure, and the related road safety planning obligations, as well as of interconnectivity and interoperability of data related to traffic to improve road safety management. Finally, the conclusions acknowledge the potential for road safety of innovative technologies, putting them into perspective regarding driver knowledge and behaviour and with regard to the co-existence with vulnerable road users and with users of human-controlled vehicles.

Greening freight package: Council of the EU adopts its position for a more efficient management of rail infrastructure capacity and traffic (18.06.2024) – The Council of the EU adopted its negotiating position (general approach) on a new regulation on the use of railway infrastructure capacity in the single European railway area. This piece of legislation forms part of the Commission’s ‘greening freight’ package together with proposals on a harmonised system to count EU emissions, on maximum weights and dimensions for heavy-duty vehicles, and the revision of the combined transport directive. The new regulation’s more specific objectives are to: (i) enable more effective capacity management procedures; (ii) strengthen incentives to improve performance of rail infrastructure and rail transport services; (iii) introduce more effective mechanisms for coordination between stakeholders, in particular across borders, and (iv) support the deployment of digital tools enabling better capacity and traffic management. Following the adoption of the Council’s negotiating mandate (general approach), the incoming presidency can begin talks (‘trilogues’) with the European Parliament on this file.

Trans-European transport network (TEN-T): Council of the EU adopts new regulation ensuring better and sustainable connectivity in Europe (13.06.2024) – The Council of the EU adopted a revised regulation regarding EU guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T). The new law aims to build a reliable, seamless, and high-quality transport network that ensures sustainable connectivity across Europe without physical interruptions, bottlenecks, and missing links. The TEN-T network will be developed or upgraded step by step with the new regulation setting clear deadlines for its completion in three phases: until 2030 for the core network, 2040 for the extended core network and 2050 for the comprehensive network. Following the Council’s adoption, the legislative act will be signed by the presidents of the Council and of the European Parliament before being published in the EU’s official journal in the coming weeks. The revised regulation will enter into force twenty days after this publication.

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