Parliament debates draft traffic law

The Law on Traffic Safety is the first item on the agenda at parliament’s new session, which began on Wednesday afternoon.

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Thursday, 14.05.2009.

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The Law on Traffic Safety is the first item on the agenda at parliament’s new session, which began on Wednesday afternoon. Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said that adoption of the law would halve the number of fatalities on Serbian roads by 50 percent by 2012, compared to 2001. Parliament debates draft traffic law Serb Radical Party officials have returned to the parliamentary chamber. Even though they claim that they do not respect the decision of the Administrative Committee regarding seating arrangements, Radical MPs took up the seats designated to them today. The traffic law has finally come before MPs after six years of delays and preparation. The law calls for longer and more extensive driver training, the creation of a Provisional License Institute, bans on the use of mobile phones, and the introduction of a points system for traffic violations. “Drivers that accumulate 18 penalty points, drivers who causes traffic accidents resulting in death, or two traffic accidents in which other people are injured, will have their licenses revoked by the police. The driver can only get his or her driving license back if he or she first proves to the pertinent institutions that he or she is capable of driving a vehicle,” Dacic said. The minister said, however, that the points principle could not be used until the new violations law began to be being applied. The law also calls for monetary fines, of up to RSD 50,000 (about EUR 525), while certain violations could also end in prison sentences. “The goal of passing this law is not to introduce draconian penalties against drivers... The goal of the law is to reduce the number of deaths and injuries in traffic accidents, because 800-900 people lose their lives in traffic accidents in Serbia on a yearly basis,” Dacic said. The parliamentary session got under way without incident, despite the Radicals’ opposition to the seating arrangements in the chamber. “We will sit and take up the first row, which has belonged to the SRS since 1992, since we entered parliament. This other section, which also belongs to us, with 78 MPs, we will not fill. We will sand next to it and walk outside the hall, but we will not sit,” SRS official Dragan Todorovic said. SRS officials were thrown out of the last session after taking up seats designated for the Liberal Democratic Party.

Parliament debates draft traffic law

Serb Radical Party officials have returned to the parliamentary chamber. Even though they claim that they do not respect the decision of the Administrative Committee regarding seating arrangements, Radical MPs took up the seats designated to them today.

The traffic law has finally come before MPs after six years of delays and preparation.

The law calls for longer and more extensive driver training, the creation of a Provisional License Institute, bans on the use of mobile phones, and the introduction of a points system for traffic violations.

“Drivers that accumulate 18 penalty points, drivers who causes traffic accidents resulting in death, or two traffic accidents in which other people are injured, will have their licenses revoked by the police. The driver can only get his or her driving license back if he or she first proves to the pertinent institutions that he or she is capable of driving a vehicle,” Dačić said.

The minister said, however, that the points principle could not be used until the new violations law began to be being applied. The law also calls for monetary fines, of up to RSD 50,000 (about EUR 525), while certain violations could also end in prison sentences.

“The goal of passing this law is not to introduce draconian penalties against drivers... The goal of the law is to reduce the number of deaths and injuries in traffic accidents, because 800-900 people lose their lives in traffic accidents in Serbia on a yearly basis,” Dačić said.

The parliamentary session got under way without incident, despite the Radicals’ opposition to the seating arrangements in the chamber.

“We will sit and take up the first row, which has belonged to the SRS since 1992, since we entered parliament. This other section, which also belongs to us, with 78 MPs, we will not fill. We will sand next to it and walk outside the hall, but we will not sit,” SRS official Dragan Todorović said.

SRS officials were thrown out of the last session after taking up seats designated for the Liberal Democratic Party.

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