The 112 is the telephone number reserved for emergency calls and valid throughout the European Union (and is also used in most other European countries, according to the operators or local laws).
Namely
The 112 can be dialed from a landline or mobile without credit with any European operator;
History
numbers of emergency calls were initially specific to each country and multiple within a single country. This posed problems for travelers to retain and whenever they went abroad one or more new emergency numbers that natives themselves were struggling to remember. Thus, July 29, 1991, the Council of the European Communities decided to create a number of additional calls valid for any emergency and for all Member States, and imposed on them to ensure (within their own territory) that:
• This number is available anywhere for free;
· the calls to this number are treated by the most appropriate services;
· the citizens are aware of the existence and use of this issue.
The 112 was available everywhere in 2000 because of technical problems in some countries (notably in France where there was inconsistency with the electronic directory, 11). According to reports from the European Commission and Member States, the 112 works anywhere in Europe. However, information published by the European Commission show that even the establishment of the issue is still problematic in some Member States.
Since 1 May 2004, the EU-15 has become the Europe of 25. The 112 works in all Member States 1.
Some Member States have now abandoned their own numbers for emergency calls in favor of 112 (this is the case of Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, the Baltic countries, Denmark, of Sweden and Finland). Others chose to redirect calls to 112 (in France, the 112 is redirected to either the UAS (15), or to firefighters (18)).
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