Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-12-Speech-3-130"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-02-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030212.4.3-130"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-02-12-Speech-3-1312
lpv:speaker	lp:Lennart Sacrédeus2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kristdemokraterna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"I have voted against the report, which has been adopted by 406 votes, with 95 votes against and 33 abstentions. I object to the fact that the European Parliament has voted (by 344 votes, with 185 votes against and 12 abstentions) in favour of the proposal to set up a new European authority for road safety issues. Road safety is a very important responsibility. Every year, many thousands of lives are claimed on European roads. Setting up a further EU authority is no solution, however. What, rather, is required is more stringent monitoring of the ways in which the road traffic regulations are complied with. The EU is weighed down by a significant bureaucracy which swallows large sums of money. National authorities now already exist with the task of promoting road safety – in Sweden’s case, the National Road Administration in Borlänge. Nor can I support the decision to set up a new European transport fund, as approved by 368 votes, with 145 against and 13 abstentions. The proposal is in danger of causing Member States with currently high road standards indirectly to be forced to pay money to countries whose roads are of poorer quality. The Southern Europeans would see in a new transport fund an opportunity to request funds to improve neglected roads at a time when funds from the regional and cohesion funds will, to a greater extent, be going to the new East European Member States. A European transport fund could easily lead to countries’ deliberately according less priority to their national investment in roads in order, instead, to request funds from the common European budget."@en1

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