Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-06-13-Speech-3-147"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-06-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Working time in mobile road-transport activities2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010613.4.3-147"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-06-13-Speech-3-1482
lpv:speaker	lp:Mauro Nobilia2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; EMPL (1999-09-13--2002-01-14)3 treasurer; UEN (2000-09-21--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-09-09--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-30--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Alleanza nazionale (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, overall, we feel that the rapporteur's good work deals exhaustively with the issue. However, we would like to comment on the proposal regarding the definite inclusion of the self-employed. We feel that it would be appropriate to include the self-employed in the new directive from the start. The Council's caution on the matter is quite understandable, but we nevertheless feel that instructing the Commission to assess, subsequently and with no time restriction, the consequences of excluding the self-employed today, would serve merely to postpone the realisation that it is necessary to include them. In fact, it is not just the issue of second drivers which needs to be addressed more exhaustively – it is, moreover, dealt with in Member States' national contract legislation – but above all that of self-employed drivers, including those who have only one vehicle or, in any case, consistently drive one of the vehicles they possess. There are various different causes which have a bearing on the matter. Often, when a self-employed driver purchases a vehicle, he is bound to pay for it in somewhat burdensome instalments. In order to meet the payments, he is forced to increase his workload. Another contributing cause is the just-in-time method which companies, having usually reduced their storage capacities, adopt in order to maintain continuous production, a method, that is, which requires them to produce a continual, regular supply of materials to be worked upon. Often, the combination of these two causes leads self-employed workers to neglect their health, not to take sufficient rest periods for their safety and, consequently, to create the conditions for potential harm to their or others' safety. Apart from anything else, definitively regulating the working hours of self-employed drivers as well is certainly a way of consolidating conditions of fair competition over the entire sector on Community territory and, at the same time, increasing the necessary safety measures."@en1

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