Action plan on road traffic safety for 2020-2021 to be published in Moldova's Official Journal

Chisinau, 30 January /MOLDPRES/ - The action plan on road traffic safety for 2020-2021 will be published in the Official Journal (Monitorul Oficial) on 31 January.    

The document was approved by the cabinet at a meeting on 29 January and provides for more actions planned for the concerned period, aimed at improving the situation in the national traffic.

Under the plan, a communication platform in the road traffic safety sector will be nationally created, of the elaboration of which the central and local authorities, academic environment and non-governmental organizations will be in charge.

The programnme sees also improvement of the system of integrated management of the actions of the specialized intervention institutions in case of traffic accidents, measures for the working out and implementation of pilot projects on the arrangement of lanes for pedestrians and bicyclists; identification, research and rehabilitation of segments with high risk of occurring of traffic; evaluation of the work of drivers, including experienced ones, as well as of driving training centres, monitoring the procedures of release of driver’s licences, etc.   

The spending for the implementation of the aforementioned action plan will be borne from the annual budget, as well as from other sources, under the legislation. The Economics and Infrastructure Ministry will be in charge of the control over the decision’s fulfillment.