Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-07-02-Speech-3-315"
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"Mr President, outdoor public areas used to be, above all, the domain of pedestrians and children playing. Since then, the car has claimed a large proportion of these for driving and parking. This represents a great danger in populous urban areas, in particular, but also on narrow country roads with ribbon development. That danger is further increased if cars also have decorative fittings at the front or rear.
The use of sharp decorative fittings was banned at national level as many as 40 years ago, but there are still manufacturers and drivers who consider outward appearance more important than other people's safety. That problem cannot be solved on a voluntary basis; this particularly applies to the attachment of bull bars to energy-guzzling jeeps weighing up to 3.5 tonnes.
I have been pressing for legislation against the trend – still predominant at that time – for a long time in the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism and in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy. In plenary conclusions a year ago, Parliament demanded a framework directive in addition to the voluntary agreements with European and Asian automobile manufacturers. Today, I am arguing in favour of the amendments to it that afford maximum protection to non-motorists, instead of continuing to place our hope in motorists switching on their headlights in daylight, for example."@en1
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