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USR-PLUS Alliance asks European Commission to kick off urgent audit of Emergency phone system 112
The Members of the European Parliament with the USR-PLUS (Save Romania Union - Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity) Alliance ask the European Commission to kick off an urgent audit of the Emergency phone number 112 that would clarify the efficiency of locating the callers in danger.
"Nicolae Stefanuta, Vlad Botos, Ramona Strugariu and Cristian Ghinea believe that after the Caracal tragedy, an assessment of the entire system that is supporting the Emergency number 112 is necessary, in both Romania and the other EU member states," a release by the Alliance sent on Thursday, reads.
Nicolae Stefanuta, a member of the committee for Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) with the European Parliament says the European citizen must have the guarantee that it functions at its best parameters all over the European Union.
"We do ask the urgent implementation of Directive regarding the location of the persons who call 112 in order to see how efficient this system is and whether the procedures are carried out accordingly in all of the EU member states. The emergency number 112 is one of the citizen's European rights, Nicolae Stefanuta says in the release.
The USR-PLUS Alliance's MEPs sent an address to the Vice President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic, in charge of the digital single market.
"We want to see whether what happened in Caracal is a system's issue or it had popped up due to negligence and indifference," MEP Vlad Botos, a member of the IMCO committee says.
Commission launches infringement procedures over 112 emergency phone number, unjustified geo-blocking and EU-wide cybersecurity rules
The European Commission decided to pursue infringement procedures against a number of Member States following their failure to meet their obligations related to the Digital Single Market. The Commission will send reasoned opinions to Bulgaria, Germany, andIreland for failing to notify the full transposition of the EU law on accessibility of the websites and mobile applications (Directive (EU) 2016/2102), and to Croatia for its failure to adequately spell out its plans for rolling out the 700MHz frequency band for 5G services (Decision (EU) 2017/899). In addition, the Commission has decided to send letters of formal notice to a number of EU countries. Firstly, to Austria, Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Romania, and Slovenia for failing to submit information about operators of essential services identified under the EU law on the security of network and information systems (Directive (EU) 2016/1148). Secondly, to Croatia, Czechia, Germany, Greece, and Spain after they failed to effectively implement the rules on the 112 emergency number (Directive 2002/22/EC), in particular by ensuring equivalent access for disabled users. Finally, following delays to the transposition of the EU Geo-blocking Regulation (Regulation (EU)2018/302) into national law, Cyprus, France, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain will receiveletters of formal notice from the Commission. This concerns the adoption and notification of measures applicable to infringements of the geo-blocking rules, including sanctions by national enforcement bodies for businesses breaching EU rules. The Member States concerned now have two months to reply to the arguments raised by the Commission. Otherwise, the Commission may decide to send a reasoned opinion or refer the case to the Court of Justice of the EU, as appropriate.