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"Mr President, firstly, I would like to thank all my fellow Members for their words and, above all, their cooperation, particularly that of the shadow rapporteurs, as well as the Group coordinators, Parliament’s services, the Committee on Transport and Tourism and especially the Commission. I should also like to thank the Council for its cooperation, since it has provided a great deal of support to the Belgian and Hungarian Presidencies.
I agree that we were most ambitious at first reading, in other words, Parliament and the Commission were moving forward together. However, we were stopped in our tracks by a blocking minority in Council, with which Parliament and the Committee on Transport and Tourism are already familiar, because the Council has been blocking some important measures for years now, in some cases permanently. In this case, we made an effort. We broke the deadlock. To that end – for practical reasons, and because of the optimism that motivates us to make use of every available opportunity in the area of road safety – we accepted the Belgian Presidency’s proposal to try to find a different way forward, for which I was grateful. We tried to move past the Council’s block, and we succeeded. The Belgian Presidency worked very well with us, as did the Hungarian Presidency, and we were successful.
It is true that this is only the first step, but we were in complete deadlock. It is the first step. We managed to improve data protection, to require the Member State of registration to provide the necessary information, to introduce consultation with victims’ associations and experts, and to include a strong revision clause that the Commission accepted, for which I am particularly grateful to the Vice-President.
Now, with utmost respect, I would just remind Mrs Savisaar-Toomast, who, I am sorry to see, has not stayed, even after expressing her reservations to us, that the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe was able to adopt another transport report without the correlation tables and that, in this case, I believe that they could make an effort, and I appeal to them to do so, to give this report a chance, otherwise they are not going to help the disagreement with the Council, since the Council will still be able to use its blocking minority in the future. Things are not going to get any better in the conciliation procedure. I think this is a fantasy, and perhaps Mrs Savisaar-Toomast’s youth makes her think that we can manage it, but I do not believe that is going to be the case this time.
Therefore, I would ask Mrs Savisaar-Toomast and the ALDE Group that tomorrow they do not force us into voting against the amendment regarding the correlation tables. That will not improve anything, and the victims, the victims’ families and our citizens out there are not going to understand why, because of an interinstitutional quarrel, we are blocking such an important instrument, which is a first but vital step in the right direction."@en1
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