21/05/2026
“Not less safety. Better safety.”
This was how DEKRA CEO Stan Zurkiewicz captured one of the central messages of this year’s DEKRA Parliamentary Evening, held at the Representation of the State of Baden-Württemberg in Berlin.
The key question was clear: How can we make safety more effective – without adding bureaucracy? As Stan Zurkiewicz put it in his speech, companies need less burden and greater impact. We, as DEKRA, turn requirements into reliable safety – and, thus, guide them through technological change.
Opened by Maik Beermann, DEKRA’s Head of External Affairs and Advocacy, the evening brought together the policy community to advance road safety through smarter regulation and implementation.
To initiate the debate, Jann Fehlauer, Managing Director of DEKRA Automobil GmbH, presented the DEKRA Road Safety Report 2026 – complemented by Jochen Kopelke, Federal Chairman of the Gewerkschaft der Polizei, who illustrated the practical challenges of first responders.
Under the theme “Working in Road Traffic”, the evening highlighted a reality that is still too often overlooked: for millions of people, road safety is also occupational safety – from professional drivers and emergency responders to road workers, delivery services and many others.
And because this workplace is shaped by many factors at once – infrastructure quality, vehicle technology and safety, working conditions, human behaviour, data quality and regulation – isolated measures are not enough. “Technical innovation, smart regulation, safe infrastructure and responsible behaviour must go hand in hand,” Jann Fehlauer emphasized.
Read the German edition of the report here: http://go.dekra.com/p5
Stay tuned – the English version of the DEKRA Road Safety Report 2026 will be available soon!
