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WASHINGTON – USA (13th January, 2016) Last Wednesday, CITA has attended the Global Road Safety Facility – GRSF partnership meeting, at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington. GRSF partnership meeting is organized by the World Bank and plays an important role in the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety. In fact, the Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) is a plan dedicated to the vital issue of road safety, and the activities, measures, and findings that can improve road safety the world over, with emphasis on accelerating and reinforcing the capacity of low and middle-income countries to implement affordable road safety programs. The strategic plan for 2013-2020 reaffirms the GRSF's mission and sets out how it will contribute to the decade of action, leveraging the global expertise of the World Bank, and working in close collaboration with donors and partners. (more…)

The EA, European Accreditation, has recently published a Guidance on the Application of ISO/IEC 17020 in Periodic Inspection of the Roadworthiness of Motor Vehicles and their Trailers. The document can be found here This document is applicable to inspection bodies performing periodic inspection of the roadworthiness of motor vehicles and their trailers as required by EU legislation. It can also be useful for other types of vehicle inspection, such as registration / first inspection and inspection after vehicle modifications.

BRASILIA, BRAZIL (18th -19th November, 2015) The Second Global High-Level Conference on Road Safety, hosted by the Government of Brazil and supported by the the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations was a milestone for road safety: for only the second time in history, government ministers and their partners in key decision-making roles from nearly every country of the world will convene to address road safety. (more…)

On the occasion of the 2nd High Level Conference on Road Safety to take place on 18-19 November in Brasilia, Brazil, UNECE has just published a report about the Road Safety activities. The paper titled "Together with UNECE on the road to Safety" gives account of the implementation status of the eleven goals the Inland Transport Committee and its Working Parties together with the UNECE secretariat undertook at the start of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety, 2011-2020. They have gained further political support in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Click here to read the report. (more…)

19 October 2015 – Geneva | “More than 1.2 million people die each year on the world’s roads, making road traffic injuries a leading cause of death globally. Most of these deaths are in low - and middle - income countries where rapid economic growth has been accompanied by increased motorization and road traffic injuries”, the World Health Organization (WHO) affirms in the report Global status report on road safety 2015. (more…)

The International Motor vehicle Inspection (CITA) and The International Commission for Driver Testing Authorities (CIECA) have established a formal Working Agreement to promote collaboration between the two organisations to benefit their respective members. (more…)

The International Motor vehicle Inspection (CITA) and the Confederation of Organisation in Road Transport Enforcement (CORTE) establish a formal Working Agreement to promote collaboration between the two organisations to benefit their respective members. (more…)

CITA is glad to send you below the invitation to attend the presentation of the SET Project – Sustainable Emissions Testing. Vehicle manufacturers and suppliers are making big efforts to produce cleaner vehicles both to give an answer to the requirements of society and to fulfil approval standards. In order to ensure that the negative impact on the environment and health is as low as possible and to improve air quality sustainably, it is crucial to keep the benefit of the new vehicles’ design during their whole life. This means that malfunctions of the emission system has to be detected during the periodic emission test and eliminated immediately. (more…)