eSafety Compendium

On the basis of the report of the eSafety Working Group and other consultations, theCommission adopted in September 2003 a Communication on eSafety 37 . TheCommunication presents the Commission’s recommendations to accelerate thedevelopment and deployment of ICT in road safety, in particular the wider, accelerateduse of active safety systems called Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems.In September 2005 the Commission adopted 2 nd eSafety Communication 38 “BringingeCall to Citizens”. This Communication proposes a road map for a full-scale roll-out ofeCall, the pan-European in-vehicle emergency call service, by 2009.In February 2006 the Commission adopted the Communication on the IntelligentCar Initiative “Raising Awareness of ICT for Smarter, Safer and CleanerVehicles” 39 , presenting the Intelligent Car Initiative as the policy framework that willguide the stakeholder’s efforts, aiming at accelerating the deployment of intelligentvehicle systems on the European and other markets through clearly defined actions thatencompass the use of policy, research and communications instruments.The three Communications to the Council and the European Parliament on eSafety canbe found as annexes to this Compendium.37 Commission Communication Information and Communications Technologies for Safe and IntelligentVehicles, COM(2003) 542 Final, 15.9. 200338 Commission Communication The 2 nd eSafety Communication “Bringing eCall to Citizens”, COM(2005)431 Final, 14.9. 200539 Commission Communication: On the Intelligent Car Initiative “Raising Awareness of ICT for Smarter,Safer and Cleaner Vehicles”, COM(2006) 59 Final, 15.2. 2006Page 110 of 490