Press Release: Road safety: Commission takes Portugal to Court for failure to establish guidelines for assessing infrastructure safety

On 23 January 2014 the European Commission decided to take Portugal to the Court of Justice of the European Union because Portugal has not adopted and notified compulsory guidelines for the application of safety management procedures for road infrastructure in the trans-European network (TEN-T). The adoption of these guidelines would save more lives on Portuguese roads, reinforcing the trend in Portugal towards fewer deaths on the road.