The EU's long-term road-safety strategy — its "Vision Zero" ambition — aims to drive road deaths toward zero by 2050. To get there, Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 (known as GSR II) made a set of advanced safety functions mandatory on new commercial vehicles, alongside complementary UNECE regulations.
For manufacturers, the consequence is simple: without compliant systems, there is no type approval — and without type approval, there is no European market access.

