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developing, adopting and strengthening cycling policies and strategies at all relevant levels of governance;

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taking necessary measures to implement these cycling policies and strategies as swiftly as possible;

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prioritising measures that take cycling into account in sustainable mobility planning in urban and suburban areas, and, where relevant, in rural areas;

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encouraging companies, organisations and institutions to promote cycling through mobility management schemes such as cycle to work incentives, the provision of company (e-)bikes, adequate cycle parking and facilities, and the use of bike-based delivery services;

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promoting cycling as a healthy way of transport or recreation, through awareness raising, advocacy campaigns, capacity building and trainings of professionals, including at relevant international fora.

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increasing the use of cycling to promote social inclusion by paying particular attention to the needs of women, children, older people and vulnerable and marginalised groups;

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taking measures to enable better access to cycling for people with disabilities or those with reduced mobility;

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taking measures to boost active mobility of older people and thereby contributing to active ageing;

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providing targeted cycling training in particular for children and vulnerable and marginalised groups;

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encouraging measures to increase affordability of cycling (10).

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significantly increasing safe and coherent cycling infrastructure across Europe;

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developing and using EU guidance on standards for quality requirements regarding vulnerable road users, including cyclists, under Directive (EU) 2019/1936 on road infrastructure safety management (11);

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increasing safety levels by giving sufficient space to cyclists and other vulnerable road users, in particular by physical separation of cycle paths from motorised traffic where relevant, or by ensuring safe speeds in mixed traffic;

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working towards creating a coherent cycling network in cities and improving connectivity between suburban and rural areas and city centres, including cycle highways;

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ensuring the provision of safe and secure bike parking spaces in urban and rural areas, including at railway and bus stations and mobility hubs;

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Promoting the deployment of charging points for e-bikes in urban planning and in bike parking spaces.

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providing technical support, funding and financing to help develop and implement cycling strategies and cycling-related investments, including through the relevant EU instruments and under the conditions set out therein;

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reflecting cycling in investments at all levels of governance (12).

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working towards delivering on the commitments set out in the Valletta Declaration (13), namely a target of halving the number of serious injuries in the EU by 2030 from the 2020 baseline using the definition in the Valletta Declaration, and in the framework of an overall road safety strategy for this period (the European Commission’s ‘EU Road Safety Policy Framework 2021-2030’ (14), which reaffirms the ambitious long-term goal to move close to zero deaths by 2050, and national road safety strategies and action plans);

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enhancing the enforcement of road safety rules and legislation to ensure the coexistence of different means of transport, with a focus on protecting cyclists and other vulnerable road users;

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ensuring that the rules on the safety requirements applicable to e-bikes are substantial, and promote their deployment;

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improving security at public bike parking spaces (including bike sharing and multimodal hubs), and increasing efforts to tackle the issue of bike theft;

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strengthening cycle training – including teaching children and young people how to cycle – and awareness raising campaigns on road safety, in particular on the biggest risks to cyclists, and supporting the safe use of bikes and e-bikes, as well as addressing the awareness of the safety of vulnerable road users during driver training.

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creating conditions to increase the European production of a broad range of bicycles (including e-bikes and bikes for people with disabilities) and their components, including access to materials, equipment and maintenance of a global level-playing field through existing EU trade defence instruments;

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supporting the bicycle service sector, including social economy entities and the circular use of bicycles (reuse, repair and rental);

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creating favourable conditions to stimulate high-quality jobs and cycling clusters, including in cycling tourism, in order to significantly increase the number of cycling-related quality jobs, support SMEs and boost relevant skills and vocational training;

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making the sector more attractive and enabling important job-to-job transitions from other relevant industries;

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recognising the European cycling industry as a partner in the mobility system in order to strengthen resilience, sustainability, circularity and digitalisation in the cycling sector;

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supporting cycling service industries, such as bike sharing and cycle logistics, especially in cities, including by strengthening the integration of cycle logistics into the logistics system.

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promoting and implementing multimodal solutions in urban, suburban and rural areas, as well as for long-distance trips, by creating more synergies between cycling and other modes of transport, such as enabling the transport of more bicycles on buses and trains, and providing safer and secure parking areas for bikes at stations and mobility hubs;

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supporting bike sharing schemes as a solution to first and last mile access to public transport services;

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creating favourable conditions to support cycling as a sustainable means of recreation and tourism.

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monitoring the implementation of our commitments;

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enabling the continuous measurement of progress on the use of cycling in the EU by establishing an EU-wide baseline, including the length, network density, quality and accessibility of cycling infrastructure and services for several user types, the share of cycling in total transport and mobility activity, and the number of serious injuries and fatalities among cyclists;

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developing harmonised indicators related to cycling for urban nodes of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T);

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developing statistics on cycling and its infrastructure at local, national and EU levels, including cooperation between Member States and Eurostat to collect cycling data.