Public consultation on road infrastructure safety management - Preparatory work
In April and May 2006, the services of the inland transport directorate of the Directorate General for Energy and Transport of the European Commission launched a public consultation ("Safer Roads through Infrastructure Safety Management") on their approach to road infrastructure safety management, with a view to preparing a proposal for a Council and Parliament Directive on this matter.
The consultation process was concluded on 19 May 2006.
50 Comments were received from national governments, research institutes and experts in the field of road safety, health, transport and road safety organisations, users associations and road operators associations.
Individual contributions in alphabetical order:
The proposal for a Directive on road infrastructure safety management has been adopted by the Commission on 5 October 2006. The text of the adopted Directive proposal, the Impact Assessment with its Summary and the Press Release for the adoption are available:
More detail about the legislative process.
