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"Thank you, Mr President. I found it interesting to take part as a shadow rapporteur on behalf of the Liberals. We succeeded in establishing fruitful cooperation with the other groups, and particularly the rapporteur, and reached a balanced report with sufficient support from Parliament and in which, therefore, a very clear signal is being given to the Commission.
Under normal circumstances, my line of approach would have been to try to persuade the various parties in the field to reach a covenant, a workable cooperation, with agreements and obligations, but in this case, it is right and proper, in my view, that Parliament should take the responsibility to fight the corner of the consumer.
We must not forget the past when we draft the report. I therefore think it important to apply past efforts as a basis for a framework directive. It would be excellent if we asked the Commissioner if he thought he would be able to draft a proposal for a framework directive in the shorter term after all. Indeed, the framework directive has 22 years of research behind it. Also, there have been so many dialogues between the partners in society, between the automobile industry and the consumer organisations in the past. It would, in itself, be a nice gesture to us to indicate that you on your part are also committed to a straightforward implementation.
Needless to say, every person who becomes a victim of a road accident is one too many. This effort is therefore a welcome one. The report has managed to strike the right balance in the descriptions of test methods and such like, and I am therefore pleased that the point of departure for the ETSC method is sound, but there should be scope for possible developments in the future. It is, after all, a dynamic process. Particularly in the technical and hi-tech industry, there are a whole host of options with which we may not be all that familiar yet. This is why it is to be welcomed that the report offers scope for possible, even better, methods than we have at the moment.
It is also important to note that it is not only the European Parliament that prevents road victims. The behaviour of road users is particularly important. This also means, therefore, that it is an integral process in which others in society will also need to play a role, and this is why I am pleased with this contribution to establishing a safer and integral traffic policy to which consumers too can make a contribution."@en1
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