Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-06-13-Speech-4-154"
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"My main reason for supporting this report has to do with the necessarily provisional character of the European automobile industry’s voluntary commitment to improving pedestrians’ and cyclists’ chances of survival in the event of collisions, weighed against the stricter and more solid Community legislation that is on the way and that will replace the voluntary commitment.
Although this voluntary agreement being considered between the various automobile manufacturers could be implemented fairly quickly and give rise to practical measures, I nonetheless think that, in the long term, a solid legal basis is the only satisfactory way of protecting pedestrians and cyclists. A framework directive with a precise and realistic timetable seems to me to be the appropriate way of bringing about a genuinely dependable policy on roads.
The voluntary agreement does not, for its part, seem capable of offering the guarantees required of a trustworthy road safety policy. In addition to the fact that such an agreement is of no effect if one of the partners decides to withdraw from it and that it suffers from a lack of openness and transparency, it also has the major shortcoming of not being really binding.
These are all reasons in favour of a framework directive aimed at introducing a genuine policy to protect pedestrians and cyclists, and all reasons which lead me to support the report in question, inviting the Commission to propose this directive."@en1
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