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1. „Road safety management and foreigntraffic in the V4 countries” Polonia Palace Hotel, Warsaw, 08/03/2013

   Implementation of the directive 2008/96/EC in Poland

   Joanna Żukowska Krzysztof Piskorz WORD Olsztyn
2. Who do we represent? Gdańsk University of Technology
3. TEN-T network in Poland 25% of the length of the national roads 1,8% of the whole road network in Poland
4. TEN-T network in Poland
5. Road accidents and killed by type of roadin Poland Huge millage (30 billion vehkm) - Huge accident severity 8% of roadaccidents 15% of killed
6. The keysubjects of the directive 2008/96/EC (Road safety management tools) Road Safety Impact Assessment - RSIA Road Safety Audit – RSA Safety Ranking and Network Safety Management – SR&NSM Safety Inspection – RSI
7. The directive implementation process in Poland(2008-2012) Ttranslation of the DirectiveintoPolish Meetings, reports, consultations of the representatives of the ministry of transport, ministry of regional development, General Directorate of National Roads and Highways, science and research institutes, engineers, others Iimplementation of the directive to the Polish Public Roads’ Act, Road TrafficAct and
8. Main barriers of the implementation of the directive 2008/96/EC in Poland The main weak point of the directive 2008/96/EC implementation is the scope of it’s application It concerns only a part of the national roads network Lack of legal framework for the implementation on the self-governmental road network
9. Main barriers of the implementation of the directive 2008/96/EC in Poland Breach of the principle of independance of the safety audit Mistranslation of the provisions of the Directive into Polish excluding adopted in Poland specialized vocabulary in the field of road safety
10. Whythe unsolved problems from the mentioned barriers were not solved? Lack of political will to support road safety improvement in Poland The aim of the directive implementation was only political (to fulfill the EU rules) not substantive (the road safety improvement) This was the barrier to any further development of the process according to the recomendations coming from road safety practitioners, engineers and self-government Lack of money was used as an argument to restrict the directive only on TEN-T network (false argument) Different interests of the various ministries
11. How the solved problems from the mentioned barriers were solved? The main research units (Gdansk, Cracow, Bydgoszcz Technical Universities) were involved into the implementation process (at a certain time point, not from the beginning of the process) They produced guidelines, instructions and recommendations on the methods and procedures to be used The buttom –up approach toward implementation of the directive appeared even if the implementation is not mandated by law (good examples from Pomorze and Warmia-Mazury regions)
12. The main factors, which facilitated the implementation of the directive 2008/96/ECin Poland The need to fulfill the EU requirements imposed on Poland (political pressure) …. usual practice in Poland Academic and practitioners readiness to support the process
13. The potential development orientations of the directive 2008/96/EC in Poland Extension of the Directive on the self-governmental road network (regional and local roads) Development of manuals, guidelines and recommendations on the procedures for the self-governmental roads Development of the independence of the safety audit’s procedure