EE 2019 - 2019 European Elections campaign photo toolkit - Illustration on road traffic

Traffic in the Belliard Street in Brussels

Traffic jam

Road Traffic in Brussels

Illustration on road traffic

Exhaust pipe, Air pollution, Fine particul pollution, Gas fumes

Traffic in the snow

City of Athens

This infoclip illustrates the new directive to improve road safety and foster the EU’s green and digital transitions. Driving licences for motorcycles, cars and tractors will be valid for 15 years, and five years for trucks and buses, according to the draft rules. The file should also include mandatory health checks when a driving licence is issued or renewed. To support the EU’s single market, a digital driving licence will be introduced, available on a mobile phone and fully equivalent to the physical driver's licence. They also propose a two-year probationary period for novice drivers, who will face stricter penalties for unsafe driving and stringent alcohol limits while driving. This item shows extracts from driving licences, driving school cars, eye examination, traffic, citizens driving, trucks, tractors, campervans/RV, taxis, two-wheeled vehicles, police checking driving licences.

Infoclip: Driving licences

The proposed revision of the CO2 emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles would expand the scope of the Regulation to include urban buses, coaches, trailers and other types of lorries. The average CO2 emissions of heavy-duty vehicles, compared to 2019 levels, would have to fall by 45 % from 2030, by 65 % from 2035, and by 90 % from 2040 onwards. The proposal sets CO2 requirements for new trailers and targets 100 % of newly registered urban buses to be zero-emissions vehicles from 2030. The incentive scheme for zero- and low-emission vehicles would end in 2029, but manufacturers would be allowed to take into account emission credits or emission debts also after 2029. This infoclip shows aerial and non-aerial footage of heavy lorries and buses.

Infoclip: CO2 emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles

Air pollution continues to be the number one environmental cause of early death in the EU with around 300 000 premature deaths per year, with the most harmful being particulate matter (PM2.5, PM10), NO2 (nitrogen dioxide), SO2 (sulphur dioxide) and O3 (ozone). The draft report by Javi LOPEZ (S&D, ES) on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe sets stricter 2030 limits relative to the Commission proposal to ensure that air quality in the EU is not harmful to human health, natural ecosystems and biodiversity. MEPs also want to increase the number of air quality sampling points and harmonise currently-fragmented air quality indices to provide better information to citizens. This infoclip illustrates air pollution, an air quality sampling station and tests for pulmonary capacity and airborne allergies.

Infoclip: Ambient air quality

"EU Road Safety Policy Framework 2021-2030" - This infoclip illustrates police controls, alcohool and drugs tests, motordrivers, pedestrians and bikers. It also illustrates traffic on highways and 30km/h signs.The Committee on Transport and Tourism adopted an own-initiative report by Elena KOUNTOURA (GUE/NGL, EL) on the EU road safety policy framework 2021-2030 - Recommendations on the next steps towards ‘Vision Zero’.Every year around 22 700 people still lose their lives on EU roads and around 120 000 are seriously injured. More than 11 800 children and youngsters up to the age of 17 have been killed in road traffic collisions in the EU over the last 10 years. Progress in reducing EU fatality rates has stagnated in recent years. The EU's long-term vision should therefore be to come as close as possible to ‘zero deaths’ on the roads by 2050 (Vision Zero).

Infoclip: EU Road Safety Policy - towards "Vision Zero"

This video stockshots presents a series of EU-funded projects on Artificial Intelligence in some of these sectors: Internet of food and farm 2020 (Lithuania), MURAB (The Netherlands), Human brain project (Germany), Symbio-Tic (Sweden), Cyberlegs Plus Plus (Belgium), De-Enigma (The Netherlands), Vi-Das (Spain - The Netherlands).

Infoclip: Artificial Intelligence, EU-funded projects

This stockshot illustrates Airparif association which measures quality of air in Paris and tests it in laboratories. This shooting took place in June, in Paris, France.

Industrial emissions: Air quality/Paris area

Cars, road and city traffic in the centre of Paris and ring road.

Infoclip: Road and city traffic in Paris

Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the EC, will deliver his third State of the Union address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 13th September 2017. Environment and climate change are amongst the most pressing issues for the citizens. This infoclip illustrates topics as the climate change, the greenhouse gas emissions, the production of energy, the transport in the air, waterway and road sectors.

Infoclip: Environment and climate change

This infoclip presents the timelapse from the renovation of the House of European History until its opening. The video sequence is obtained from a series of still photographs taken with a time interval between every images and then assembled in a video file.

Infoclip: House of European History - Timelapse

During the EP plenary session (3-6 April 2017) in Strasbourg, MEPs vote on recommendations to the EU Commission and member states on how to remedy flaws in checks on car manufacturers and close legal loopholes to prevent further cheating in emissions tests, while also properly enforcing laws to protect air quality. Mairead McGuinness opens the vote. Vote on the resolution as a whole by raise of hands, which is adopted.Illustrative shots of CO2 emission test, of driving in a motorway, traffic in the city (Brussels), biker and pedestrian with a protecting mask and traffic in a big axe (city of Brussels).

Inquiry into emission measurements in the automotive sector: extracts from the vote on the report by Jens GIESEKE (EPP, DE) and Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY (ALDE, NL) and illustrative shots

This infoclip illustrates respiratory and health performance tests in a Brussels hospital. Two patients are being tested to determine their respiratory health.

Infoclip: Air quality - impact on public health

The air pollution situation from traffic in Brussels, Belgium. Busy roads in Brussels such as Rue de la Loi, Rue Belliard and others spew out huge and harmful levels of air pollution. Also the traffic tunnels have a huge impact on the poor air quality.

Infoclip: Air pollution

This infoclip offers general illustration footage of the Turkish capital Ankara. Centre of Ankara, traffic, Bilkent University. Views of a rural zone outside Ankara.

Infoclip: Ankara, capital of the Republic of Turkey

During 1984 European elections campaign, European campaign posters in France of Simone VEIL, Jacques CHIRAC, Georges MARCHAIS, Lionel JOSPIN and Jean-Marie LE PEN. Polling stations with citizens entering and voting.

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