Road safety in the western Ukrainian region of Lviv was in focus at the first workshop of the Coordination Security Board (CSB), jointly organised by European Advisory Mission (EUAM) and Lviv Regional State Administration on 12 September.
The event gathered 20 experts from all CSB agencies, including the National Police, Prosecution Service, Border Guard Service and regional state authorities, to discuss ways to improve road safety.
The discussion particularly focused on the main causes of the large number of traffic accidents and the severity of their consequences in the region, as well as on the overall improvement of coordination between agencies involved in road-traffic safety.
In 2017, Ukraine passed a bill on a road-safety strategy, known as the ‘National Strategy on the improvement of road-traffic safety in Ukraine for the period up to 2020’. Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers then asked for an action plan to facilitate the implementation of the strategy for the period until 2020 – a plan that is now in motion.
