Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-07-02-Speech-1-079-000"
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"Mr President, I, too, would like to thank the rapporteur and the shadow rapporteurs for their work. This is a technically difficult dossier. I would have liked a little more time for the debate and for the discussion.
The tachograph simply lacks the driving and rest periods that apply to lorry drivers. For me, therefore, it was a top, significant priority to stipulate to whom this is to apply. It strikes me that leaving it up to the Member States to decide what trades are excluded under what conditions was not the best solution. I come from a border region. This regulation will mean that a roofer driving along will have to have a tachograph in one Member State, will not need one a kilometre or two further down the road, and then will need one again a few kilometres further still. Someone who drives 150 kilometres in order to carry out his or her work, and who has a tachograph, will not be able to drive home in the evening. That is why I take the view that European legislation needs to make allowance for people’s everyday lives. This regulation is intended to apply to professional drivers – everyone who is not a professional driver is to be excluded from its scope.
My second issue relates to deadlines. We currently have two models of tachographs, and are now proposing a third. I have therefore proposed that we should first of all set a deadline by which there will be only one model in use and that the Commission could then, where appropriate, adapt the deadlines for a second model. The past has often shown that we sometimes set deadlines too tight when waiting for technology. It should be possible to solve this a little more simply.
Finally, I turn to the issue of the international dimension. I know that we are dealing with social conditions, working conditions. What do the citizens expect of our legislation, however? They do not expect us to say that now is not the time to change anything. Where – as in the region where I live – people spend nights and weekends in their lorries for weeks at a time and only then go home, and where these people are hired because they only receive around a third of the wages normally received in the region in question, that is not the Single European Transport Area that we want.
What we want is better quality, better pay and better conditions. I believe that now is the time to change this, even if it was not the aim of this directive to address this issue."@en1
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