Pan-EU emergency number 112 is available in 26 nations but many c...
Pan-EU emergency number 112 is available in 26 nations but many citizens don’t know it, the European Commission said Monday. The EC has emphasized offering the service, but it took the occasion of the first European 112 Day urge…
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to governments to promote it better. Data published Monday showed that 95 percent of Europeans agree on the utility of having a single emergency number EU-wide, particularly when they're abroad, the EC said. But two respondents in three said they believe people haven’t been told enough about the service, and many who recognize it as a national emergency contact don’t realize works across the EU. Most respondents want access to emergency services for the disabled improved, the EC said. Its telecom regulatory reform package contains proposals to beef up 112 service, but at a news conference, Finnish European Parliament member Piia-Noora Kauppi said the EC could do more. She recommended that the EC require the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to set caller location standards and that it require the number to be displayed along with national numbers, on all emergency vehicles. Kauppi also urged the EC to do more to make 112 available to citizens in their home nations and to disabled people. The EC is surveying member countries on such issues and said it intends to publish the results before summer.