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"Mr President, I too wish to thank our colleagues for their fine drafting of the reports concerning road transport. These actions will improve traffic safety, and this is an important matter.
A reasonably balanced common position on the maximum authorised dimensions for vehicles has been achieved, as the rapporteur Mr Hatzidakis stated. Extending the transitional period makes it possible to make sensible use of the current stock of buses until the end of their life-span. The time made available for this is now truly sufficient. Technical development offers the opportunity to use increasingly longer vehicles, while at the same time also taking safety factors into consideration. Standardising the maximum lengths of buses will also reduce distortions of competition.
The adoption of a standardised driver's certificate will promote fair competition in the sector and will also improve traffic safety. Applying the Regulation solely to the drivers of third countries, at least in the first phase, is justified.
This third report on standardising the professional training of drivers for the carriage of goods or passenger vehicles by road may both promote traffic safety and improve the status of drivers. At the same time it will also be possible to raise the prestige of the sector and to increase its attraction to young people. This, too, is an important matter. It is also worth noting that a better mode of driving will also spare the environment. The basic training requirement for drivers must not however prevent existing drivers from returning to the sector. Account is taken of this in the report. Participation in training must be as flexible as possible. The training programme must be drafted in such a way that the length of one course section should be at least seven hours. Most important, however, is to ensure that the training makes it possible to truly improve the professional competence of drivers, exactly as Mrs Sanders-ten Holte recently emphasised here."@en1
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