Conference on EU Directive 200359

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Conference on EU Directive 2003/59

• Safe EU Driver project
• Leonardo da Vinci programme Oct. 05 Sept. 07
• 9 partners
• 5 working partners
• BVWL of Germany
• VTL of The Netherlands
• Cesmad of Czech Republic
• TYA of Sweden
• TUR of Denmark as contractor

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Conference on EU Directive 2003/59

• Safe EU Driver project
• 4 consulting partners
• AFT-FC of France
• ZMPD of Poland
• FATII-ARTRI of Romania
• Le Forem of Belgium
• All partners are national providers of transport
  training and members of EuroTra

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Safe EU Driver project

• Project purpose
• Create a framework that will allow European
  training organisations to share good practice and
  thereby enhance the quality of the professional
  transport training
• Compare the existing training elements and find
  the ones that are suitable for training according
  to Directive 2003/59/EF
• Compare standards of the training
• Develop common recommendations for training.

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Safe EU Driver project

• Project outcome
• Safe EU Driver Handbook
• Manual for trainers approved training
  institutes
• Mainly on Initial Qualification
• Inspiration for national authorities
• How do they do in other countries?
• What should we be specially aware of when
  implementing the directive?
• Improved training quality
• Definitely for project and EuroTra members
• Hopefully for other training providers

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Safe EU Driver project

• Safe EU Driver Handbook
• Reflect different training cultures
• Annex 2 Suggested training hours
• Done for complete initial qualification 280 hours
• Not the same hours for truck and bus
• Annex 3 How to describe curriculum and work
  functions after training
• Levels of training achievements

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Safe EU Driver project

• Evaluation of Directive
• Most useful with better training of drivers
• The Directive
• Old-fashion way of setting training standards
  should be competencies instead
• Training objectives not reflecting
  state-of-the-art
• Hopefully the Article 12 Committee will be open
  for dialog
• Too thin on Periodic Training
• Leaving too much to national interpretation

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Safe EU Driver project

• Evaluation of Directive
• Most useful with better training of drivers
• The Directive
• Not enough focus on control of training quality
• Important Transport industry has to attend and
  often also pay for the training
• Unclear conditions on approval of training
  centres
• Too many compromises
• Transport industry wants the training done by
  trainers with experience as professional drivers

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Safe EU Driver project

• Final remarks
• EuroTra and its members are looking forward to do
  this directive training
• The training needs to be of the highest quality
  many drivers feel forced to attend
• This is the first step
• Download of the Handbook
• www.eurotra.eu
• Lets get started