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Mr President, I should like to begin by thanking Parliament for its excellent work and by once again thanking Mr Markov.
I should like to oppose what some MEPs have said and point out that our objective is to act in the interests of drivers and of industry by adopting social standards that will make our roads safer. It is true that heavy goods vehicles are involved in only 6% of accidents, but 16% of these accidents are fatal. Finally, we are going to allow the harmonisation of conditions of competition. We therefore have here evidence of real progress.
I fully understood some speakers, such as Mr Piecyk, when they said they regretted the absence of a direct link with the Working Time Directive. That is nonetheless what the Commission had proposed. The Council unanimously rejected our proposal, I am afraid to say, but we are responding. Thus, I have sent ten reasoned opinions for non-transposition, and we are in fact, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, going to monitor the application of these texts very carefully; we are going to see to it that the various instruments are as fully coordinated as possible. I would point out that, among the Member States that received a reasoned opinion, Ireland has already put its situation in order. If the other Member States do not do so, then the Commission will still have the option of bringing them before the Court.
I will now provide some more specific answers. In response to Mr Markov and to Mrs Ayala, I will state that the study on the use of small lorries is under way, that we envisage a meeting taking place this year with all of the interested parties and, once again, that we are going to increase the coordination between these texts and the directive on drivers’ working time.
Mr Koch pointed out the problem of applying the legislation outside the Union’s borders. We have committed ourselves to negotiating with a view to bringing the AETR in line with our legislation. We also intend to protect the Union against social dumping and we intend also to apply the digital tachograph to AETR drivers and drivers from Russia, Turkey and the Balkans.
Mrs Griesbeck pointed out the rerouting of traffic via the Alsace region. The new Eurovignette Directive, adopted by Parliament and the Council, will make it possible for the Member States to install tolls on these alternative routes."@en1
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