First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety : Time for Action

# Moscow, 19-20 November 2009

Moscow Declaration (Tentative Translation) —Extract—

Hereby resolve to:

1. Encourage the implementation of the recommendations of the World report on road traffic injury prevention,

2. Reinforce governmental leadership and guidance in road safety, including by designating or strengthening lead agencies and related coordination mechanisms at national or sub-national levels.

3. Set ambitious yet feasible national road traffic casualty reduction targets that are clearly linked to planned investments and policy initiatives and mobilize the necessary resources to enable effective and sustainable implementation to achieve targets in the framework of a safe systems approach;

4. Make particular efforts to develop and implement policies and infrastructure solutions to protect all road users in particular those who are most vulnerable such as pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and users of unsafe public transport, as well as children, the elderly and people living with disabilities;

5. Begin to implement safer and more sustainable transportation, including through land-use planning initiatives and by encouraging alternative forms of transportation;

6. Promote harmonization of road safety and vehicle safety regulations and good practices through the implementation of relevant United Nations resolutions and instruments and the series of manuals issued by the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration;

7. Strengthen or maintain enforcement and awareness of existing legislation and where needed improve legislation and vehicle and driver registration systems using appropriate international standards;

8. Encourage organizations to contribute actively to improving work-related road safety through adopting the use of best practices in fleet management;

9. Encourage collaborative action by fostering cooperation between relevant entities of public administrations, organizations of the United Nations system, private and public sectors, and with civil society;

10. Improve national data collection and comparability at the international level, including by adopting the standard definition of a road death as any person killed immediately or dying within 30 days as a result of a road traffic crash and standard definitions of injury; and facilitating international cooperation to develop reliable and harmonized data systems;

11. Strengthen the provision of pre-hospital and hospital trauma care, rehabilitation services and social reintegration through the implementation of appropriate legislation, development of human capacity and improvement of access to health care so as to ensure the timely and effective delivery to those in need;

Invite the United Nations General Assembly to declare the decade 2011–2020 as the “Decade of Action for Road Safety” with a goal to stabilize and then reduce the forecast level of global road deaths by 2020;

Decide to evaluate progress five years following the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety;

Invite the international donor community to provide additional funding in support of global, regional and country road safety, especially in low- and middle-income countries; and

Invite the UN General Assembly to assent to the contents of this declaration.

Moscow, Russian Federation

20 November 2009