General Delegate Euro Contrôle Route TISPOL and ECR Brief Introduction By Gérard Schipper General Delegate Euro Contrôle Route WIM Workshop Brussels 27 February 2013

safe and secure roads all over Europe. TISPOL’s vision safe and secure roads all over Europe.  

  A-Austria LT-Lithuania B-Belgium LV-Latvia BG-Bulgaria IRL-Ireland CH-Switzerland L-Luxembourg CY-Cyprus NL-Nederlands CZ-Czech Rep. N- Norway D-Germany PL-Poland DK-Denmark P-Portugal E-Spain RO-Romania EST-Estonia SK-Slovakia F-France SLO-Slovenia FIN-Finland S-Sweden GR-Greece UK-United Kingdom H-Hungary M - Malta I-Italy SCG-Serbia (obs) TISPOL 2011: 29 members 27 EU countries + EEA countries Norway and Switzerland + 1 observer Serbia.

TISPOL’s Mission Statement. TISPOL is active in the field of ROAD POLICING and is committed to reducing death, serious injury and crime on Europe’s roads. The organisation acts as a PLATFORM FOR LEARNING and EXCHANGE OF GOOD PRACTICE between the traffic police forces of Europe. TISPOL supports EDUCATION FOR ROAD USERS, backed up where necessary by enforcement. This in turn makes a SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION to reducing road casualties.

Operations. SEATBELT TRUCK/BUS SPEED ALCOHOL/DRUGS

Euro Controle Route Contact: Euro Contrôle Route secretariat Rue de la Régence 39 1000 Brussels Belgium T: +32 2 519 3 892 www.euro-contrôle-route.eu Euro Contrôle Route

Human tragedy on European roads Transport facts 2011: In 2011 the amount of 30.500 persons were killed in road traffic 1.6 million persons were injured 16%: HGV’s involved (4.880 road deaths) Accidents with HGV’s tend to be more severe because of the size of these vehicles Euro Contrôle Route

Basis ECR Basis ECR ECR cooperation is founded on a Ministerial Administrative Agreement (1999 & 2007) Signing session March 2007 Euro Contrôle Route

Mission Statement Euro Controle Route (ECR) is a group of European Transport Inspection Services working together to improve road safety, sustainability, fair competition and labour conditions in road transport by activities related to compliance with existing regulations Euro Contrôle Route

Members and active observers of ECR 1999: BENELUX and France 2001: Ireland and Germany 2002: United Kingdom and Spain 2004: Austria and Poland 2007: Romania, Bulgaria and Italy 2008: Hungary 2010: Lithuania, Slovenia & Czech Republic 2011: Italy left ECR (no adequate resources) Euro Contrôle Route

External representation Structure of ECR Steering Committee EX.CO HARMONIE DANGEROUS GOODS TACHOWEB GROUP TRAINING / EXCHANGE ECR secretariat External representation Euro Contrôle Route

The four pillars of ECR Education and training Harmonisation of control practice Coordinated cross border checks Consolidated points of view / common interest and influence decision making process Cross border checks: 8 times a year, with common items to check and reports afterwards

Coordinated cross border checks

Coordinated cross border checks

TISPOL and ECR partner since 2004 ECR and TISPOL TISPOL and ECR partner since 2004 “It is truly amazing what can be achieved, if no one cares who gets the credit” Harry S. Truman Questions ? Thank you very much for your attention ! www.euro-controle-route.eu

Brief introduction workshop Weigh In Motion for Enforcement Goals: Exchange of information latest developments enforcement WIM and HVG’s Development of a common vision for future use of WIM technology for HGV enforcement in Europe Investigate possible mutual interests How: Gathering of experts; vendors, scientists and enforcers Decide on future next steps It is not the intention of the workshop to develop official policies related to road transport in Europe