Blind spot mirrors for heavy goods vehicles - 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 Trucks through Blind Spot Mirrors") on their approach to blind spot mirrors, 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.
38 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 are available:
The proposal for a Directive on the retrofitting of mirrors to heavy goods vehicles has been adopted by the Commission on 5 October 2006. The text of the adopted Directive proposal, and the Press Release for the adoption are available:
More detail about the legislative process.
