The Eastern Partnership Road Safety Observatory (EaP RSO) is a joint initiative of the European Union and the countries of the Eastern Partnership, united by the target set in the 2018 Eastern Partnership Declaration on Road Safety: to reduce fatal and serious road traffic injuries by 50% between 2020 and 2030. 

The urgency of this work remains clear. Road traffic fatality rates across the region continue to exceed the EU average of 4.4 deaths per 100,000 population, ranging from 7.5 in Azerbaijan to 12.0 in Georgia – nearly three times the EU benchmark. The economic burden is equally stark: road crashes cost member countries between 2.7% and 5% of GDP annually. This report presents the evidence base behind these figures, examining the burden of road collisions (Chapter 2), their economic costs (Chapter 3), the situation of vulnerable road users (Chapter 4), and crash patterns by road type (Chapter 5), before reviewing regional progress across the pillars of the Safe System Approach: data systems (Chapter 6), road safety management (Chapter 7), safer roads (Chapter 8), safer vehicles (Chapter 9), safer road users (Chapter 10), and post-crash response (Chapter 11).

We invite you to download our Annual Report 2025 which covers the second year of the Observatory's operations – a year in which the foundations laid at the outset began to deliver tangible results across the region.