EU COUNTRIES TO BE READY FOR EMERGENCY CALLS FROM CARS BY 2017
April 14th, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Parliament, which represents the citizens of the European Union (EU) voted today (April 15) to introduce a mandatory system to handle emergency calls (eCalls) sent automatically by cars in case of a crash by 2017.This decision was agreed in negotiations with the national governments back in March and endorsed today by MEPs (members of the European Parliament) in their last plenary meeting ahead of elections on May 22-25.It means all 28 EU countries will need to have infrastructure to receive and handle eCalls in emergency call response centers, ...
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