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I know that road safety is a high-priority task for the European Union, I recognise that this report represents a step towards achieving this Community objective and consequently voted in favour of the report currently before us. I therefore agree with adopting most of the measures that were proposed and with applying them to minibuses, buses and coaches and to light, medium and heavy-duty vehicles. I agree with the rapporteur’s view, however, that banning side-facing seats in certain vehicles is excessive. The fundamental issue is that these seats have not been proven to be unsafe in all the vehicle types in question. It is true that the Commission submitted a study, but this study does not justify a ban of this nature, because it was confined to examining accidents that occurred in only one category of vehicles – minibuses – and was based on parameters that only apply to this type of vehicle. Furthermore, the data on M3-category coaches which belong to the classes III or B, do not suggest any specific risk that would justify a total ban.
I therefore feel that the European Commission’s conclusions are, in this last regard, over-hasty."@en1
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