Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-09-14-Speech-2-115"
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"Mr President, as PPE-DE Group coordinator for the internal market and consumer affairs, I certainly welcome the direction that the Commission is going in to remove a further anomaly in the internal market, one which is clearly most unsatisfactory in partitioning the market at the moment.
We are waiting with great interest to see the Commission's proposal. I was also pleased to have some reassurance from the Commission that it recognises that there are other consumer protection issues, particularly in relation to safety, which need to be looked at. Speaking as draftsman of the opinion of our committee on the pedestrian protection requirements on motor vehicles, on which this House has spent a great deal of time, I have to say that since 1996 things have moved on as regards the important contribution that visible parts make to pedestrian protection. We need assurances that it will not be possible for independent manufacturers to supply parts, such as bonnets or bumpers, that will not meet the pedestrian protection standards demanded by this House. That is a significant issue, considering the overall consumer benefits and harmonisation of this proposal.
Secondly, I should like to ask the Commissioner to confirm that he will be sending us a full economic and impact appraisal of this proposal. I was slightly surprised that he thought there would be a growth market in these components. Given that all the targets that we are again looking at in this House suggest that we wish casualties from motor vehicle accidents to decline significantly over the next ten years – by implication that suggests to me that the market in repair parts from accident damage, which is what we are talking about here, is likely to go down, not up – I would like to ask the Commissioner what his justification is for suggesting in this worthwhile proposal that it will be driven by growth markets.
I regard it as dealing with an anomaly in the marketplace, but I want to make sure that the anomaly is not achieved at the expense of road safety. I want to make sure that the complexities of this are justified in terms of real economic benefit, both to the European economy and to consumers."@en1
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