The approved bill provides for a single license to drive in the country and prohibits the sale of alcohol on routes.
The Senate yesterday gave the first step in the fight against major scourges afflicting the country: traffic accidents, to approve the bill that will launch a new road safety plan at national and among its key measures, provides a single license to drive, the point system or scoring and prohibits the sale of alcoholic beverages in all the establishments located on national highways.
The initiative will be discussed now by the House of Representatives, but will come in second review the Senate, so its ultimate sanction would be delayed until the second half of March. This is because the ruling party finally accepted last Friday that one of the items the project will create a tax, a theme that the Constitution prevents him from discussing exhaustively as initiator in the Senate chamber.
For this reason, the rate of 1% will apply to the liability insurance for automobiles, in order to finance the new system, which was removed from the initiative will be included when the project is discussed in the House . Pillars The bill passed yesterday is implemented unified commitment to road safety policy signed Last September 11 between the government of Nestor Kirchner, 19 provinces and the capital, and the House of Representatives is scheduled today sanction. According to the senator said Fabián Ríos (PJ-Corrientes), head of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and member-government informant, with this project, the national executive and provincial governments assume the answer to road safety "as a state policy" , ending with overlapping jurisdictions that currently exists.
In this regard, he cited as the main pillars creating a single license to drive, which will being issued by municipalities but after consultation and approval of the National Register of Road Safety Statistics, an agency's mission is to collect all information related to accidents or infractions committed by each driver.
The third pillar, said Rivers, will be the implementation of a unified system of traffic violations, which will prevent the evasion of payment of infringement. The main body of the future law enforcement will be the National Highway Traffic Safety Agency, which will have as main mission to coordinate and unify policies and strategies to achieve an orderly transition in the country. According to estimates by the Secretary of Interior policy portfolio, Marcio Barbosa, the operation of the system required "at least 100 million pesos a year, to be financed with public funds and provincial. However, the main source of income is a tax of 1% will apply to the liability insurance of motor vehicles and will be introduced into the debate in Parliament. This rate would be raised between 60 and 70 million pesos. Disappeared from the tax bill passed in the Senate yesterday by express order of Cristina Kirchner. "He said he wanted an indubitable applicable law," said Rivers, longer than 24 hours before the official insisted on passing the tax initiative despite warnings about the possible unconstitutionality which might devolve on the standard. Despite broad agreement on the initiative from the opposition were heard several criticisms. Thus, the Cordoba Carlos Rossi (New Party) said the road safety plan should be accompanied by corresponding investment in public works. And the radical Gerardo Morales (Jujuy) expressed doubts about the "immediate implementation" of the future law, since "before there should be a cultural change" in society. In that regard, he recalled that in Spain the system quickly implemented, with specific training in primary schools and drivers that this law does not provide more a year.
