Pursuant to Article 16 of Directive 2010/40/EU , the Commission has set up, in its Decision of 4 May 2011 (2011/C 135/03) , the group of experts on Intelligent Transport Systems (the European ITS Advisory Group).
On 27 January 2012, the members of the European ITS Advisory Group have been appointed by Mr. Matthias Ruete, Director-General for Mobility and Transport DG.
The list of members is available on the Register of Commission Expert Groups (direct link: http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2736 )
The task of the European ITS advisory Group is to advise the Commission on business and technical aspects of the deployment and use of ITS in the Union. The group is composed of 25 members from relevant ITS services providers, associations of users, transport and facilities operators, manufacturing industry, social partners, professional associations, local authorities and other relevant fora.