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"Thank you, Mr President. First of all, I should like to express my thanks to the rapporteur for the sound work she has done. In the final analysis, the background to what we are discussing here is the fact that public roads claim forty thousand victims annually, including a number of vulnerable road users – as they are referred to – cyclists, pedestrians and also, of course, moped riders and motorbike riders to a certain extent. These are the people around which everything ultimately revolves.
The agreement that is being discussed here is in the first instance voluntary. To a certain degree, I can go along with Mrs Oomen-Ruijten and others who would ideally like to see voluntary agreements concluded with industry. However, this has already taken some time. These tests have taken 22 to 24 years, although some adjustments are taking place. I do, in fact, share the view of Mr Van Dam who claims that these adjustments can be made a great deal faster. These days, consumer adjustments can be made very quickly thanks to technological connections between both the requesting parties and, ultimately, the implementing operative activities in industry itself.
Phase one is, in itself, a step forward in this procedure where, for example, the application of ABS is concerned. We have some misgivings about daytime running lights, because it is, after all, the weak vulnerable users who end up being portrayed in a bad light. We have tabled a few amendments on this score. Ultimately, it is also about the front of the cars and what goes on around these.
I very much welcome phase one's implementation on a voluntary basis. As for phase two, I go along with these four tests where it is clear which ones are the best, but this is, at the end of the day, about a framework directive. This is what we should focus our attention on now. I fully agree with the rapporteur on the scope and intention of this framework directive. I also agree with her – this is also why we have tabled an amendment on this – to implement this framework directive, which should not be formulated in a technically complex manner, as soon as possible. This is why we state in our amendment that we would ideally like to see this before the end of this year. In the light of 24 years of history, this is certainly not asking too much.
Once again, I should like to ask a number of groups – for a number of those are agreed – to consider Amendment No 9, particularly part one, which is about submitting this relatively simple framework directive to us before the end of the year, and this according to the criteria that have been laid down in the low-key consultation between all of us."@en1
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