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"I would normally thank the Commission for a proposal it sends to Parliament, but this time I am not so grateful. I have objections to the proposal concerning driving times and rest periods in road transport in the form in which it was originally sent to Parliament by the Commission. The amendment by Mr Bradbourn, myself and a large number of fellow MEPs is therefore intended as a signal to the European Commission to stop using this old method of legislating. It is time we became aware of the bureaucracy we are causing. Making new regulations does not mean that they will be enforced any better than the old regulations, which were satisfactory but were not enforced either.
Many of the new regulations cannot be monitored at all. Other regulations are only being amended on account of the technology used for monitoring, which had worked well for 17 years. An example of legislation that cannot be monitored and is therefore poor is the new attempt to tell self-employed contractors how long they may work. My colleague Mathieu Grosch has improved the proposal a great deal, and it will be thanks to him that there will in fact be a directive.
The question remains, however: what possessed the Commission to come up with such poor legislation in the first place? The last thing the sector needs is more new regulations. What it does need is well –thought through, intelligent and harmonised monitoring that also creates a climate for honest competition, monitoring that will apply equally to the 15, soon to be 25, Member States.
I know that the European Commission supports attempts to create more extensive and more intelligent monitoring of freight traffic. I also know, however, that cooperation often depends on personal input and sympathies and therefore still takes place on a relatively informal basis. This difficult process must also be given more political support, and it is a pity that business must sacrifice flexibility for the sake of regulation, flexibility being the keyword in the sector. The sector has always managed to make its way through the increasingly stringent requirements and the difficult market with great creativity, but when I look at the profit figures, I fear that even this creativity will miss the mark."@en1
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