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Estonian Transport Administration Valge 4 11413 Tallinn ESTONIA FACTURE (Invoice - Rechnung) N° 2023-13 – A rappeler lors du paiement s.v.p. (Please record this number on the transfer - Bitte auf Zahlungsüberweisung vermerken) Date : 30/01/2023 Facture échue le (Payment before – Bitte Zahlung vor) : 28/02/2023 Votre numéro de TVA (Your VAT number - Ihre MwSt-Nummer) : Désignation : Cotisation annuelle 2023 Montant en EURO Object – Objekt : Membership fee 2023 - Mitgliedsbeitrag 2023 Amount in Euro – Betrag in Euro Total HT Total without taxes - MwSt Basis 11,656.00 TVA 0.00 % (VAT rate - MwSt) 0 Exempté de TVA en vertu de l’article 44 § 2 11° du code TVA belge - Exempt from VAT according to article 44 § 2 11° of the Belgian VAT code - Freigestellt von MwSt nach Artikel 44 § 2 11° des Belgischen Mhrwertsteuergesetzbuches Total TTC à régler (Total including taxes - Gesamtbetrag inkl. MwSt) 11,656.00 Paiement svp. par virement sur notre compte bancaire à la : Please transfer the listed amount by bank to the - Bitte überweisen Sie den Rechnungsbetrag auf unser Bankkonto: BNP Paribas Fortis Woluwe-Saint-Lambert Cinquantenaire 6 Rue Bâtonnier Braffort B-1200 Bruxelles Compte bancaire: Bank account: - Bankverbindung : IBAN: BE 48 2100 1546 9027 BIC : GEBABEBB CIECA VAT : BE 0457131009  Ref: Payment of your CIECA membership 2023 We would be very grateful if you could follow these guidelines: - Note that you will receive the invoice by e-mail only. Please let us know if you wish to receive the invoice by regular post as well. - Please proceed to the payment of the membership fee at your earliest convenience. We would be grateful if the payment was processed before 28 February 2023. - It is advisable to pay your membership fee before registering for the CIECA Congress. - If there is a problem with the payment of your fee, or you think that the payment is going to be considerably delayed, please contact Ms. Augusta Sica and Ms. Eva Mateo from the CIECA Secretariat ([email protected]; [email protected]). - Use the number of the invoice provided when ordering the bank transaction as this makes the tracing of payments easier. The number of the invoice appears as follows: 2023-XX (please provide both numbers). - Transfers should be made to the following bank account: Name of account holder: CIECA BNP Paribas Fortis Woluwe-Saint-Lambert Cinquantenaire 6 Rue Bâtonnier Braffort B-1200 Bruxelles IBAN: BE 48 2100 1546 9027 BIC : GEBABEBB - Please make sure that CIECA receives the full amount of money for the membership, and that you make provision in your payment for the commissions that might have to be paid in relation to the transfer. - If you have any questions in relation to your membership fee, please do not hesitate to contact us. The CIECA Secretariat January 2023  Re: Renewal of your CIECA Membership 2023 Brussels, 30 January 2023 Dear CIECA Member, On behalf of the CIECA Permanent Bureau and the Secretariat, I would like to take the opportunity to wish you a healthy, fruitful, and prosperous 2023. Once more, the time to renew your CIECA membership has arrived. As always, we would like to remind you how important your contribution is in making our work worthwhile. We would like to stress how vital your membership is to our success; and all of us at the CIECA Permanent Bureau and the Secretariat look forward to strengthening the organization, building solid and meaningful relationships among its Members. We hope that everyone has a very successful year, and we look forward to what 2023 will bring for CIECA. It seems that the challenges of the pandemic are lesser impacting our daily life, and we are positive that we can run all our activities and events planned in 2023, and to continue our ongoing projects, in which we hope seeing you participating, be it online or face to face. As usual, you will be receiving e-mail invitations to all our events through your designated contact representatives. We would also like to ask you to keep an eye out for more news and events, via our website. If you are a new Member and interested in getting involved in any of our ongoing projects, we will be extremely happy to hear from you. There are many opportunities to become involved in CIECA and we trust that you will encourage your colleagues to actively contribute to our work. After our successful General Assembly and Congress in Naples last year, this year the CIECA General Assembly and Congress will take place on 24 - 25 May 2023 in Vienna, Austria. The event, hosted by the Austrian Road Safety Board (KFV) will be held at “Wiener Börsensäle” situated in Vienna city centre; so save the date in your agenda to enjoy our annual networking event, and the opportunity of exploring this beautiful city. The title of the congress is “What do novice drivers need to know today, what skills do they need to perfect and how do we test them?”. More information about this event can be obtained in the 2023 Congress website (https://cieca-vienna23.at/). Registrations are already open and an exciting programme will be available very soon. Since the General Assembly in Oslo in 2008 the membership fees are subject to adaptations following the Belgian Health Price Index (‘the index’), an annual revalorisation of that reflects the evolution of the cost of living, based on the rate of general price inflation in Belgium. In practice, this means that in Belgium, all wages, pensions, property rental costs, unemployment benefits, etc. are tied to the index. This year, enterprises like CIECA are confronted with a 11.08% mandatory indexation of salaries in January 2023 due to the high inflation rate. This rate applies to the rent for our office premises too, which together with the wages, are the most important costs in the CIECA budget. In addition, our suppliers and service providers, e.g. accountancy and IT services have already adopted their prices along the lines of the index. We therefore had to adapt the membership fee for all our member categories, (Effective, Associated, and Affiliated Members) according to the index rate in order to ensure that they can enjoy the benefits coming with the membership to the same extent as in the past years. These benefits include, just to highlight a few:  - Participate in CIECA network to exchange information, promote good practice and build partnerships. - Access to CIECA research services for your organizational needs for free. - Free subscription to CIECA Memo, and the opportunity to post news in CIECA website. - Access to the CIECA website, including the Member’s only section. - Internet visibility: Direct hyper-links to your website & e-mail address. - Access to the on-line Members Directory. - Access to the Guide on Driver Licensing. - Access to on-line publications, research reports, articles, past CIECA events, workshops, and presentations. - Opportunities to present latest research, papers and studies at CIECA Members’ Forum, and other events, - Attendance to CIECA events, face to face workshops, webinars etc and meetings. - Participation in CIECA working Groups: External Advisory Group (EAG), Theory Advisory Group (TAG), Fit to Drive Group and Education Topical Group. Please note that CIECA has the status of observer at the Driving Licence Committee of the European Commission and the United Nations. For more details, please have a look at our list of benefits on CIECA website. The summary of our activities during the last year and our plans for 2023 reflects how these benefits are brought into living thanks to your support and commitment. We hope that you take pride in in what we could accomplish with your support and look forward to contributing to our planned activities. We invite you to officially renew your membership this year, and for this purpose, you will find the invoice attached to this mail. Please read carefully all the instructions we have provided to process the payment and note that your membership should be paid by 28 February 2023 by bank transfer to the bank account specified in the invoice. Please note that the payment of the membership fee is a condition of participating in all CIECA Members’-only events. If you have questions, suggestions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at +32 2 732 72 30 or by mail at [email protected]. I look forward to meeting you all face-to face or online in one of our events as soon as possible! Best regards, Augusta Sica CIECA Managing Director CIECA Secretariat Avenue de la Toison d’Or 77 B-1060 Brussels Belgium tel: +32 2 732 72 30 www.cieca.eu 2 CIECA activities in 2022 Permanent Bureau positions and Secretariat Ms María José Aparicio Sanchiz (Ministry of Interior / Directorate-General for Traffic, Spain) and Mr Jan Schepmann (TÜV-Verband / TÜV NORD, Germany) were elected as CIECA Vice Presidents. Their mandates were approved by CIECA Members during the General Assembly held on 8 June 2022 in Naples. Programme & events Thanks to your commitment with CIECA, we have been able to accomplish a number of important and interesting activities in 2022: - First of all, the 54th CIECA General Assembly and Congress held on 8 - 9 June 2022 in Naples (Italy) was a very successful event, which attracted many Members. Organized by the CIECA Secretariat, the congress entitled Driver training and testing: finding the balance between mobility and safety through the use of innovative technology, improved curricula and data analysis was attended by 109 delegates from CIECA Member organisations. Other highlight of the year was a webinar series organised in collaboration with our Members. In total 14 webinars were held in 2022. As a report of activities was presented in the General Assembly in June 2022, and an overview of webinars held in spring 2022 can also be found in the CIECA annual report 2021-2022, I would like to mention those held during second half of 2022, on the following topics: - Does driving competence correlate to driving style in Lithuanian professional and non-professional drivers’ sample? on 6 October 2022 (13 participants) - The new driver licencing system in Georgia: Gaining and sharing experiences, on 20 October 2022 (17 participants) - Assessing the cross-cultural compatibility of hazard perception and prediction testing, on 3 November 2022 (20 participants) - Road User Education Day, on 17 November 2022 (30 participants) - Young car driver's traffic accident risk and prevention, on 1 December 2022 (22 participants) Second half of the year saw finally the start of our face-to-face events, with two workshops: - Cheating and fraud in the theory test. This workshop was organized by the CIECA Theory Test Advisory Group (TAG) in Athens (Greece) on 25 - 26 October 2022 with the kind support of our Member the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Greece. It was attended by 52 participants. - The use of simulators in driver training. This 2nd Education workshop organized with the kind support of our Member MOVING International Road Safety Association e.V. was held in Munich (Germany) on 24 November 2022 and it was attended by 30 participants. Last but not least, CIECA prepared together with its Members a common response to the EC Public Consultation on the revision of the Directive on Driving Licences as a result of three round tables on the following topics: - fit to drive issues on 29 March 2022 - driving licence issuance and mutual recognition on 31 March 2022 - training, testing, and vehicle categories on 26 April 2022 Expert groups The Expert Advisory Group (EAG) performs auditing activities to assess the driver testing system and recommend actions to strengthen it. Restrictions of movement due to Covid-19 still forced the EAG to adapt their planning in the first half of the year. However, on 26 - 29 September 2022 a visit to Autosécurité, Wallonie (Belgium) could finally take place, as well as a visit to RTA, Dubai (United Arab Emirates) on 6 - 8 December 2022. 3 Apart from two visits, the group met several times over the year, and organized the above-mentioned online event aimed to respond to the EC Public Consultation on training, testing, and vehicle categories. The Theory Test Advisory Group (TAG) provides on request of Members consultancy services and audit of the theory test and organizes one workshop a year. Last year the group organized the workshop ‘Cheating and fraud in the theory test’ on 25 - 26 October 2022, which was mentioned earlier. In autumn, on-site visits could finally take place again, and so the group also participated in the visit to Autosécurité, Wallonie (Belgium) on 26 - 29 September 2022, as well as the visit to RTA, Dubai (United Arab Emirates) on 6 - 8 December 2022. And of course, the group continued having regular meetings over the last year, be it online or offline. As every year, both expert groups the EAG and the TAG also contribute to the preparation of the congress programme. Last year, the CIECA Topical Group on Education (ETG) organized the above-mentioned ‘Road User Education Day’, which took place on 17 November 2022. The purpose of the meeting was to formulate a CIECA position of what should be common understanding of a driver training scheme, which could be considered for inclusion into the upcoming 4th Driving License Directive. The discussion was based on the conclusions stated in the CIECA Road User Education (RUE) project (2013 - 2014), and we are very happy that three representatives of the European Commission / DG Move could attend this online event, together with 27 CIECA Members. Furthermore, along with the other expert groups EAG and TAG, the ETG visited the RTA, Dubai (United Arab Emirates) on 6 - 8 December 2022. As already mentioned, the expert groups EAG, TAG, and EAG also collaborate in order to perform global audits of driver licencing systems that include recommendations to improve the practical and the theory tests, but also the training. If you wish to benefit from these services, you are invited to contact the Secretariat! The work of the Topical Group on Fitness to Drive, initially set up for a three-year period 2017 – 2020, had finished, nevertheless the group members participated in the preparation of the common response to the EC Public Consultation for the revision of the Directive on Driving licences with the webinar dedicated to fit to drive issues organized on 29 March 2022. Since many Members were interested in the work of this group , we are very happy to announce that a new Fitness to Drive Group is planned to go ahead very soon. More information about all the expert groups and their activities can be obtained on the CIECA website and in the annual report that you can access on our website: https://www.cieca.eu/sites/default/files/public-pages/Our-organisation/Annual- Report/CIECA%20Annual%20Report%202021-2022.pdf Despite the challenges of 2022, we hope that you found our agenda interesting and above all, reflecting shared interests and needs of our Members. And much more will come in 2023! Along with the opportunities and benefits that the membership provides, we believe that you will discover an organization committed to representing your interests, reflecting the voice of the driver testing community, and open to consider the collaboration with organizations from other fields. You are invited to contact us to suggest programme, and/or information services that you, as a Member, would like to see provided by CIECA. While we wait for your suggestions, let me give you an outline of our plans for this year. 4 Events & Programme for 2023 In 2023 we will strive to continue providing a programme that responds to your needs, and that lays out future perspectives for driver testing and training. We are planning to have a combination of online and face- to-face events. As mentioned before, the 55th CIECA General Assembly, Members’ Forum and Congress entitled “What do novice drivers need to know today, what skills do they need to perfect and how do we test them?” hosted by the Austrian Road Safety Board (KFV, Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit) will take place on Wednesday 24 May and Thursday 25 May 2023 in Vienna, Austria. The Congress website is already up and running (https://cieca-vienna23.at/), and Members can already register for this important annual event. We hope to see you all attending the event! We have also a series of webinars and workshops in the pipeline for 2023, and Members can already register for the following events: 26 January 2023 – Webinar: Driving data for examination: A proof of concept in the Netherlands 23 February 2023 – Webinar: DVSA’s Enhanced Rider Scheme (ERS) - Improving rider safety beyond test 02 March 2023 – Webinar: Remote Interpretation Service for Theory Driving Test – A proactive solution to a persistent and challenging need 19 April 2023 - EAG Workshop: Waiting times and passing rates for the practical exams, Madrid (Spain) Moreover, a new permanent CIECA Fitness to Drive Group is planned to go ahead, to act as a source of professional and technical advice for CIECA on fit to drive/medical matters. More information on the new Fitness to Drive Group as well as upcoming webinars, workshop and projects will follow via our newsletter and website www.cieca.eu. Please take a look regularly at our website calendar https://www.cieca.eu/calendar where you can register for our upcoming events. Guide on Driver Licencing and questionnaires As always, we would like to remind you of how important it is to keep the CIECA database up to date, so we encourage you to continue filling in any questionnaire related to your country that might still need your attention. Thank you all for your continuous support and help. We look forward to continuing working with you soon. And please remember that we are open to hear your suggestions, so please feel free to contact us if you have an idea that we could integrate in our programme and, by doing so, contribute to the professional development of all Members of the CIECA community. 5  Helena Siemann Majandus- ja Kommunikatsiooniministeerium [email protected] 01.02.2023 nr 1.4-10/23/2509-1 Suur-Ameerika tn 1 10122, Tallinn, Harju maakond Kaaskiri Transpordiameti liikmemaksu arve juurde Käesolevaga edastab Transpordiamet Majandus- ja Kommunikatsiooniministeeriumile tasumiseks arve liikmemaksule alljärgnevas organisatsioonis: CIECA liikmemaks 2023 11,656.00 EUR arve nr 2023-13 Lugupidamisega (allkirjastatud digitaalselt) Tiina Luuk ärikontroller finantsosakond Lisad: - CIECA invoice 2023-13 Estonia - Document to accompany invoices 2023 - Letter Renewal Membership 2023 Tiina Luuk 5504633, [email protected] Valge 4 / 11413 Tallinn / 620 1200 / [email protected] / www.transpordiamet.ee Registrikood 70001490