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"Mr President, thank you, Mr Vermeer for your sound cooperation, as rapporteur, on this report. I am extremely pleased that, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, I have been able to help bring about the compromises required to produce the amendments that are before us and that I now hear the Commission is prepared to accept, something that I am also extremely pleased about.
Road safety is important to the European Parliament, a fact that is clear from this report. Our task is to look after road users’ interests but also to make sure that we obtain laws that enable industry to produce safety products, a consideration now evident from this directive. I am extremely pleased that the Third Road Safety Action Programme has come about. I think there are a lot of interesting aspects to it, and I am looking forward to being able to continue debating it here in Parliament. The programme has been very much influenced by the road safety debate we have had in Parliament in recent years.
There has been lengthy discussion of the protection of pedestrians. In Parliament, we have spent a year and a half conducting a debate both in the committee and in the Chamber. This has now resulted in the directive we requested last summer. We really did try to enable all the parties to contribute to our obtaining cars that are as safe as possible for unprotected road users. We established frameworks for the objectives and the implementation, and we emphasised the role of the European Parliament in following up this issue of road safety. Now, we have obtained the directive, and we see that there is an opportunity to use both passive and active measures to promote the protection of pedestrians. Independent investigations of the progress made are to be carried out, and the European Parliament is to have the right of codecision if there are major changes to the directive. Then, there are also committee amendments concerning sports cars: the large cars that we know are extremely dangerous and to which the Commission has also drawn attention in its road safety programme.
I am extremely pleased with the compromises that have been tabled. I think it good that we should open the way for active measures, but we must not abandon the passive ones. We cannot throw out the baby with the bathwater. I have played a part in bringing about the compromises, and I support the report. I think we should stick to the compromise so that a first reading is sufficient and we get a directive through quickly. I am extremely pleased with the outcome. I am looking forward to the ongoing road safety debate in Parliament, for it is very important."@en1
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