Deputy Economy Minister announces National Road Safety Strategy, Action Plan

Georgia’s National Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan for the next two years have been developed and will be approved in the near future, Guram Guramishvili, the Georgian Deputy Minister of Economy, said on Wednesday. 

Making the announcement at a conference on the European Union public service twinning project - the Establishment of Comprehensive Road Safety Database and Further Improvement of Road Safety Management in Georgia - Guramishvili also said the strategy would be aimed at reducing the number of deaths and serious injuries caused by traffic accidents by 25 percent.

He noted the 2022-2023 Strategy and Action Plan included increasing road safety management efficiency, positively changing citizen behaviour in traffic, building safe road infrastructure, improving the quality of vehicle safety, and providing prompt and effective medical care, the Ministry said.

• Project facilitating road safety launched in Georgia

The official also said the EU-supported project, which is being implemented by organisations from Poland and Lithuania, provided an opportunity to further strengthen cooperation between the countries, pointing out Georgia’s “choice to develop in accordance with EU values.”

The project provides the opportunity to “further strengthen” the cooperation between Polish and Lithuanian experts and their Georgian counterparts, as well as the capacity of the country’s Economy and Interior ministries and the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, which are beneficiaries of the project.

As part of the Association Agreement signed in 2014 between Georgia and the EU, a €1.3 million twinning project on road safety will also focus on improving traffic accident data collection and analysis-based approaches at the institutional level.