MIL-OSI Europe: Answer to a written question – Elimination of the warning triangle and replacement with light-signalling devices connected to national traffic control centres – E-001043/2025(ASW)

The Commission is committed to improving road safety and takes note of the upcoming introduction in Spain of a light-signalling device that is connected to the national traffic control centre and that is to replace the advance warning triangle.

Traffic rules and provisions on parking and standing in general and on warning devices to be carried on board motor vehicles in particular are not regulated by the EU. They are regulated at national level and their use in international traffic at United Nations level, for instance in the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic[1].

The Commission has no mandate to harmonise the shape and use of warning devices to be carried on board vehicles. While harmonised rules would be desirable, the harmonisation of such rules should be addressed in the relevant bodies of the United Nations.

• [1] Cf. Article 23(5) of that Convention in connection with paragraph 56 of Annex V and paragraph 6 of Annex I to that Convention. https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/conventn/Conv_road_traffic_EN.pdf.