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"Mr President, first of all, can I say that as Chair of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, which has been the lead Committee on vehicle technology, I want to thank Ms[nbsp ]Sehnalová very much, both as Chair and also as her shadow rapporteur as well. I particularly want to record my thanks to the Committee on Transport and Tourism and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs with whom we worked very closely together.
Now, as a number of colleagues have pointed out, this is not in any sense a new proposal, nor indeed is the technology particularly new. The issue has been the willingness of all the Member States to decide finally to make a move to adopt the technology, in terms of providing the network to receive the information, and also, in this type-approval proposal which makes it a compulsory fitment in every vehicle, and all the standards are clearly set out in this proposal.
I think it is worth reflecting on why it has taken so long, because obviously this is quite a complex issue. But of course the issues around privacy and other things have been known for ten years or more. It is interesting that these came up relatively at the last moment in this proposal, although it was clear from the beginning, and Ms[nbsp ]Sehnalová was quite clear, that we had addressed all the privacy issues. Because, of course, the data that is signalled from eCall is not personal data – because it does not actually apply to an individual. It is actually linked to that vehicle. The SIM card that sends the signal about the nature of the accident itself is linked to the vehicle. It does not actually tell you who is driving the vehicle.
But there is a lot of important data there that will be transmitted – how many passengers there are in the vehicle, the severity of the crash itself – to help decide what sort of intervention you may need. That will be automatically triggered by the airbag. We have to remember: the reason we can do this is because cars have become so much more safe. They have more airbag systems within the vehicle that enable survivability for longer, which is why you need that critical time now where people might not previously have survived accidents. That is why it is an idea whose time has come and like an airbag itself – a driver’s airbag – I do not think that you should be able to switch it off, because it is a part of the vehicle safety system."@en1
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