Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-14-Speech-2-037"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to begin by thanking the rapporteur, Mr Markov, for his constructive cooperation in preparing the report. We are basically concerned here with three issues: health and safety in the working environment, road traffic safety and equal conditions of competition. In the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, we have mainly confined ourselves to health and safety, but these issues belong together. Proper driver health and safety whereby, for example, drivers were thoroughly rested when they took the wheel, would promote road safety. Minimum rules throughout the internal market would also guarantee that there was no distortion of competition.
It is rather odd that there should be proposals to reject this report. There is considerable agreement between the Council, the Commission and, I hope, also the majority in Parliament that this 18-year-old regulation now needs to be changed, partly as a result of digital tachographs now being used. The big problem, and one of the reasons why change is required, is, in actual fact, the poor compliance with the existing regulation. I myself can see that there is poor compliance in my own country. I wish therefore especially to draw attention to a proposal that is very important in the new regulation, namely that the Member States’ supervisory authorities be able to take legal proceedings in cases of rest period infringements, even if the infringement has taken place in the territory of another Member State.
There are a number of aspects of the existing report that we Social Democrats, both in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism, would like to see strengthened, for example the minimum rest period per 24 hours and the maximum driving time. We have therefore tabled Amendments Nos 105 and 106.
We also think that the minimum requirement in terms of the working environment is that a driver must not be compelled to spend his long weekly rest period in the cab. We have therefore tabled Amendment No 107. This amendment has unfortunately been wrongly translated in the Swedish version, which is why the English version applies.
Amendment No 110 is about the need not to remunerate drivers according to a pre-arranged distance to be travelled. Paying drivers on a piecework basis is quite unjustifiable. In conclusion, Amendment No 113 is aimed at requiring the two sides of industry at European level to carry out regular evaluations of this new regulation."@en1
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