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United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Environment Programme’s mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and people to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
Sustainable mobility, sport and environment, accommodation and urban infrastructures are subjects that UNEP is dealing with.
The UNEP Brussels Office strongly supports the Velo-city 2009 event.

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UNEP

 

United Nations

The United Nations is central to global efforts to solve problems that challenge humanity. Cooperating in this effort are more than 30 affiliated organizations, known together as the UN system. Day in and day out, the UN and its family of organizations work to promote respect for human rights, protect the environment, fight disease and reduce poverty. 


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European Commission,
Directorate-General Energy and Transport

Well-functioning transport links are vital for European businesses and citizens. EU transport policies aim at fostering clean, safe and efficient travel throughout Europe, underpinning the internal market of goods and the right of citizens to travel freely throughout the EU. The objectives of European transport policy cannot be achieved without looking at transport in urban areas. The Commission is therefore fully committed to developing activities in the field of urban mobility at EU level, in full respect of the subsidiary principle. 

The Green Paper on urban mobility suggests that cycling should be an integral part of urban mobility policies. The European Commission sets the example, by giving particular attention to the bicycle in its own staff mobility policy. As part of its responsibilities for developing policies and managing funding instruments, the Commission addresses road safety concerns, provides funding for infrastructure, promotes the exchange of best practices and supports local cycle policy assessments. 

The European Commission fully supports the Velo-city 2009 conference. 

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European Commission

European Commission

The mission of the European Commission is to promote the general interest of the European Union. The European Union comprises 27 democratic European countries and brings peace, prosperity and freedom to its 498 million citizens - in a fairer, safer world. The Commission undertakes its tasks by initiating proposals for European legislation, by overseeing the implementation of the Treaties and European law, and by carrying out common policies and managing funds.

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European Economic and Social Committee – EESC

The European Economic and Social Committee

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is the EU body, established by the Treaty of Rome, in which civil society organisations from all EU member states participate in EU policy making. It is an advisory body that functions as a bridge between the EU and civil society, promoting social dialogue and participatory democracy. The EESC publishes its views in official opinions, which are jointly developed by representatives from employer organisations, trade unions and various interest groups such as consumer groups or environmental organisations. In its opinions on European transport policies, it calls for energy efficient, sustainable transport systems and precedence for local public transport, walking and cycling over car infrastructure, as the only way to improve living and environmental conditions in metropolitan areas (EESC opinion TEN/276 'Transport in urban and metropolitan areas'). Specifically, the EESC demands EU funding for the creation and maintenance of cycling infrastructure such as the Euro Velo Routes, obligatory spaces for bicycles in all trains in Europe and consideration of European cycling policy in all other relevant EU policy areas such as urban development, health and education (EESC opinion TEN/277 'Promotion of cross-border cycle transport’).

 

The EESC strongly supports the Velo-city 2009 conference and will shortly publish, in cooperation with Velo-city 2009, the first European Cycling Lexicon that contains key terms of cycling, cycling infrastructure and different types of cycles for different transport needs in all 23 official languages of the EU to help Europeans cycling abroad, to inform about good practices and to promote cycling policies. It is in this spirit that the EESC will also become a signatory to the Charter of Brussels on a better cycling policy.   


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