Regional Road Safety Initiatives Road Safety Capacity Building - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Regional Road Safety Initiatives Road Safety Capacity Building Workshop Belgrade, 15-16 October 2014

Content • SEE 2020 Strategy • RCC’s activities in road safety • The way forward

SEE 2020 Strategy • SEE 2020 Strategy - Jobs and Prosperity in a European Perspective was adopted by the region’s Ministers of Economy in November 2013 . • It addresses transport infrastructure and transportation in the region, among other sectors. • The RCC is already coordinating the overall efforts on Strategy implementation, communicating the progress to the political level of the countries involved and is responsible for developing and implementing the overall monitoring system. • Strategy will be firmly connected with the EU’s Instrument for Pre - accession Assistance (IPA II) • RCC intends to provide a platform for interaction with donors engaged in regional activities and mobilizing funds under IPA II and other available EU funding tools.

RCC activities in Road Safety - Improvement of road safety standards has been identified as one of priorities in the RCC Strategy and Work Programme 2014-2016 and the SEE 2020 Strategy. - RCC contributes to the promotion of road safety by supporting implementation of relevant EU directives. To this aim, RCC promotes a multisectoral approach alongside the inclusion of different level stakeholders due to the complex nature of road accidents and many different sectors involved in the operation of road safety. - RCC developed proposal of the training curriculum for road safety auditors and inspectors in accordance with EC Directive 2008/96, with the support of BiH Ministry of Communications and Transport and Association of Consulting Engineers BIH.

The way forward • RCC intends to support and closely work with national administrations and regional structures, especially in light of implementation one of the SEE 2020 Strategy targets - to improve road safety standards. • Help the region in overcoming difficulties it currently faces by promoting consensus among the SEE countries and through raising awareness on critical road safety issues on the SEE Comprehensive Transport network. • Continue to promote regional approach towards the uniform application of EU road safety legislation. • As a follow- up of the Berlin’s Conference and its Declaration, EC prepared Non-paper on Connectivity in the WB and RCC will be engaged in the implementation of the Berlin agenda.

thank you RCC Secretariat Trg BiH 1/V, 71000 Sarajevo Amna Redzepagi ć - Čolić, Expert on Sustainable Growth amna.redzepagic-colic@rcc.int