These contracts were signed on 25 October 2010 at the Thieu service station at the junction of the Mons-Paris motorways towards Brussels (E19) and Namur (E42), with a view over the Centre Canal and the Strepy-Thieu boat lift – a place that was especially chosen because the road and inland waterway systems run in parallel at this point and because it is only a few hundred yards away from both the Sart bridge-canal, a structure 500 m long and 50 m wide that enables the Centre Canal to cross the Thiriau du Sar valley, and a major crossroads between the N55 and N535 at the entrance to the town of La Louvière.

It will set up a programme to monitor otters and carry out an inventory of physical bottlenecks along watercourses used by migrating otters (e.g. busy road crossings, culverts...).

Safety in tunnels requires a number of measures relating, amongst other things, to the geometry of the tunnel and its design, safety equipment, including road signs, traffic management, training of the emergency services, incident management, the provision of information to users on how best to behave in tunnels, and better communication between the authorities in charge and emergency services such as the police, fire-brigades and rescue teams.

1. This Directive prescribes the conditions necessary to ensure the interoperability of electronic road toll systems in the Community. It applies to the electronic collection of all types of road fees, on all parts of the Community road network, urban and interurban, motorways, major and minor roads, and various structures such as tunnels, bridges or ferries.

This Directive prescribes the conditions necessary to ensure the widespread introduction and interoperability of electronic road toll systems in the Community. It applies to the electronic collection of all types of road fees, on all parts of the Community road network, urban and interurban, motorways, major and minor roads, and various structures such as tunnels, bridges or ferries..

Work will be carried out on roads, railways, port and airport facilities and the modernization of telephone networks and telex services.