During the plenary session (15-18 April 2019) in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs vote on the report by Róża Gräfin von THUN UND HOHENSTEIN (EPP, PL) on the type-approval requirements for motor vehicles as regards general safety. Safety The regulation, approved by Parliament with 578 votes to 30, and 25 abstentions, will now be submitted for approval to the EU Council of Ministers. Extracts from the vote and illustrative shots.

Strasbourg

plenary session

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THUN UND HOHENSTEIN, Róża (Renew, PL)

car safety (T)

Type-approval requirements for motor vehicles as regards general safety: extracts from the vote on the report by Róża Gräfin von THUN UND HOHENSTEIN (EPP, PL) and illustrative shots

<p>EP Vice Presdient Ramon Luis Valcarcel opens the vote on the report THUN UND HOHENSTEIN on Type-approval requirements for motor vehicles as regards general safety. He gisve the floor to the rapporteur. </p>

SOUNDBITE (Polish), R&#243;&#380;a Gr&#228;fin von THUN UND HOHENSTEIN (EPP, PL), Rapporteur, Thank you very much for your support to these systems that will be installed in new vehicles, which will make European roads safer. And not just for drivers and their passengers, but also and above all for vulnerable road users. I'm thinking of cyclist, pedestrians, etc. 

Applause from colleagues and vote on the report, which is adopted with 578 votes to 30, and 25 abstentions.

Illustrative footage on street traffic in Paris, motorbikes and cars. Brussels street with tram, cars and cyclist. 

Illustrative footage on 112 emergency service launching an operation on traffic accident, ambulance leaving. 