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"Mr President, every one of us knows that road transport is a very tough and very competitive sector where there are frequent breaches of social regulations. Those social regulations are badly needed precisely in order to ensure that road safety is guaranteed, but also to achieve a level playing field – fair competition between businesses.
In order to achieve that, more monitoring is needed. The technology will help. It is evolving very quickly, and the new digital tachograph that we are currently aiming to define in the legislation will make remote monitoring possible, which, clearly, will mean that it will be possible to carry out much more monitoring than at present. At the moment, a lorry has to pull over before a check can be made. This alone will represent amazing progress.
There are, of course, also other aspects that the rapporteur mentioned in her report that we also need to support. First of all, we need to open the debate on the scope of application. We want to evolve to a situation where all professional drivers are monitored, and the proposal to now move from 3.5 to 2.8 tonnes is a step in the right direction.
On the other side of the coin is the idea that we need to be more flexible when it comes to exceptions. I agree that plumbers and electricians need not be monitored. That should be clearly laid down, and the 100 km limit seems to me to be very sensible. I will make that my last point. I would like to offer the rapporteur my thanks, and I wish her every success."@en1
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