1. General Delegate Euro Contrôle Route
TISPOL and ECR
Brief Introduction
By Gérard Schipper
General Delegate Euro Contrôle Route
WIM Workshop
Brussels
27 February 2013

2. safe and secure roads all over Europe.
TISPOL’s vision
safe and secure roads all over Europe.

3. A-Austria
LT-Lithuania
B-Belgium
LV-Latvia
BG-Bulgaria
IRL-Ireland
CH-Switzerland
L-Luxembourg
CY-Cyprus
NL-Nederlands
CZ-Czech Rep.
N- Norway
D-Germany
PL-Poland
DK-Denmark
P-Portugal
E-Spain
RO-Romania
EST-Estonia
SK-Slovakia
F-France
SLO-Slovenia
FIN-Finland
S-Sweden
GR-Greece
UK-United Kingdom
H-Hungary
M - Malta
I-Italy
SCG-Serbia (obs)
TISPOL 2011:
29 members
27 EU countries + EEA countries Norway and Switzerland + 1 observer Serbia.

4. TISPOL’s Mission Statement.
TISPOL is active in the field of ROAD POLICING and is committed to reducing death, serious injury and crime on Europe’s roads.
The organisation acts as a PLATFORM FOR LEARNING and EXCHANGE OF GOOD PRACTICE between the traffic police forces of Europe.
TISPOL supports EDUCATION FOR ROAD USERS, backed up where necessary by enforcement. This in turn makes a SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION to reducing road casualties.

6. Operations.
SEATBELT
TRUCK/BUS
SPEED
ALCOHOL/DRUGS

7. Euro Controle Route Contact: Euro Contrôle Route secretariat
Rue de la Régence 39
1000 Brussels
Belgium T:
Euro Contrôle Route

8. Human tragedy on European roads
Transport facts 2011:
In 2011 the amount of persons were killed in road traffic
1.6 million persons were injured
16%: HGV’s involved (4.880 road deaths)
Accidents with HGV’s tend to be more severe because of the size of these vehicles
Euro Contrôle Route

9. Basis ECR
Basis ECR
ECR cooperation is founded on a Ministerial Administrative Agreement (1999 & 2007)
Signing session March 2007
Euro Contrôle Route

10. Mission Statement
Euro Controle Route (ECR) is a group of European Transport Inspection Services working together to improve road safety, sustainability, fair competition and labour conditions in road transport by activities related to compliance with existing regulations
Euro Contrôle Route

11. Members and active observers of ECR
1999: BENELUX and France
2001: Ireland and Germany
2002: United Kingdom and Spain
2004: Austria and Poland
2007: Romania, Bulgaria and Italy
2008: Hungary
2010: Lithuania, Slovenia & Czech Republic
2011: Italy left ECR (no adequate resources)
Euro Contrôle Route

12. External representation
Structure of ECR
Steering Committee
EX.CO
HARMONIE
DANGEROUS GOODS
TACHOWEB GROUP
TRAINING / EXCHANGE
ECR secretariat
External representation
Euro Contrôle Route

13. The four pillars of ECR Education and training
Harmonisation of control practice
Coordinated cross border checks
Consolidated points of view / common interest and influence decision making process
Cross border checks: 8 times a year, with common items to check and reports afterwards

14. Coordinated cross border checks

15. Coordinated cross border checks

16. TISPOL and ECR partner since 2004
ECR and TISPOL
TISPOL and ECR partner since 2004
“It is truly amazing what can be achieved, if no one cares who gets the credit”
Harry S. Truman
Questions ?
Thank you very much for your attention !

17. Brief introduction workshop Weigh In Motion for Enforcement
Goals:
Exchange of information latest developments enforcement WIM and HVG’s
Development of a common vision for future use of WIM technology for HGV enforcement in Europe
Investigate possible mutual interests
How:
Gathering of experts; vendors, scientists and enforcers
Decide on future next steps
It is not the intention of the workshop to develop official policies related to road transport in Europe