Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-04-01-Speech-3-246"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-04-01"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20090401.19.3-246"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Johannes Blokland2
lpv:spokenAs	chair_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2008-05-09--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; ENVI (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; TRAN (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; ChristenUnie - Staatkundig Gereformeerde Parti (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, the functioning of the Regulation on driving time and rest periods is on the plenary agenda at long last. Since the Regulation entered into force, complaints have been pouring in about the application of this Regulation – ‘unclear’ and ‘unreasonable’ are words often heard. Action must be taken on this score. The Regulation must be reviewed, and quickly. What needs to be improved? The legislation must be predictable. I am not advocating the harmonisation of all the sanctions. This must remain a competence of the Member States. What I am advocating, however, is a clear, predictable, reasonable system. This is the only way to get away from fines that are absurdly high and unreasonable, and involve extremely lengthy settlement procedures. There is evidently scope under the current legislation for a discriminatory approach to foreign lorry drivers, in particular, on Europe’s roads, which is unacceptable. This problem quite simply represents a serious distortion of the internal market. Finally, a brief example of the absurdity of the current Regulation on driving time and rest periods. A driver travelling through France was fined EUR 750 for falling 15 minutes short of his full rest period. What is more, it took six hours to settle the fine. This meant that the driver was unable to load and unload that day, with all the associated consequences. This brought the real loss suffered as a result of the fine for the 15-minute violation to approximately EUR 1 750. The Commission must take a much firmer line against Member States guilty of such distortions of the internal market. As a Dutchman, I am thinking primarily in a southerly direction."@en1
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