Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-06-13-Speech-4-024"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-06-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Pedestrian protection: Commitment by the European automobile industry2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020613.1.4-024"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-06-13-Speech-4-0252
lpv:speaker	lp:Ari Vatanen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kansallinen Kokoomus (Finland) (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I found out about this speech only a couple of minutes ago, but this is a very serious matter. We are talking about human life. For that reason I was happy to come and speak here at such very short notice. It was a pity that the Committee headed off in the wrong direction right at the start. We politicians wanted to leave our mark only because we were elected to this Parliament. The issue is a lot more serious than that. This is about saving human lives and finding the means of doing so as quickly as possible. We must therefore forget the political approach; we have to support the Commission’s very rational proposal and, likewise, the excellent work undertaken by the rapporteur, Mrs Petersen. What is the way to implement those very technical changes – which are in fact huge in scale – as quickly as possible? We must remember that we are elected just once every five years, but the car industry holds an election every day. Consumers vote with their wallet every day, and people’s awareness of safety matters should not be underrated. Today they are insisting on safe cars and also that cars should be safe for pedestrians. We especially must not get ourselves caught up in an EEVC test, good though it may be in itself, because developments are happening very fast. What will we have to offer in terms of technology in two, three or four years’ time? We should not let ourselves get bogged down in the framework defined today and I give my utmost support to the Commission’s proposal, as well as Mrs Petersen’s work to reach a compromise, and I would just briefly like to say this: even Olof Palme would have been satisfied with the work that we have done here."@en1

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