Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-02-Speech-4-027"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to thank Mr Markov because I believe that he has done an excellent job, including in terms of mediation. I do not agree with the previous speaker, because I believe that harmonising social safeguards and road safety is an important task of this Parliament and our institutions. It is a task on which I do not always agree, even though I believe that, when it comes to increasing safety in the interest of Europeans, we need to be able to reach a compromise.
I should like simply to point out that, while on the one hand the balance struck by the directive is a reasonably acceptable one, and is therefore a balance that I generally support, on the other hand there are some inflexible aspects to the directive that could perhaps have been toned down: I am referring in particular to those aspects regarding working time and rest breaks. Although I can agree on them, they could have been toned down more in terms of applying the directive.
I have further doubts – and on this point I address Mr Barrot – about the digital tachograph. I know, for instance, that in my country, Italy, we are having difficulties finding workshops capable of initialising these instruments. I wonder whether other EU countries are experiencing the same difficulties. The Italian Ministry of Production Activities has granted a derogation to the road hauliers with regard to the certification of times and speeds, precisely because the instrument is not yet enabled. If the problem exists in other countries too, then I wonder what can be done about it. If no action is taken, then we are in danger of starting a process that in the end cannot be carried through."@en1
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