Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-02-22-Speech-2-275"
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"First, let me go back a bit: the Commission is making the study on dipped headlights available to you. I did not have the information, but the study is available to you.
Now I will answer Mrs Vincenzi’s question. As set out in its White Paper, in its Communication of 16 February on strengthening the rights of passengers, the Commission promised that in 2005 it would look at the best way of improving and guaranteeing passengers’ rights in the different modes of transport. This Communication approaches the question of passengers’ rights in the road sector from the point of view of international coach services.
So far as road safety is concerned, Mr President, and we have already spoken about it at some length, the 2001 White Paper proposed cutting the number of casualties by half by the year 2010. In the countries of the present Union, the Union of 25 Member States, 50 000 people were killed in 2001; there must be no more than 25 000 in 2010. The European Parliament and the Council have adopted this ambitious target. In 2003, the Commission adopted an action plan concerning the vehicle, user behaviour and the road infrastructure: three aspects. Well, this year we are going to publish a review of the efforts made to reach that target.
As I said, and I want to stress this, we will have to make new legislative proposals, one of which will be concerned in particular with road infrastructure audits and inspections. I would nevertheless like to add, for Parliament’s information, that motorists’ behaviour will also have to be taken into account, and we shall have to see what we can do to bring some harmonisation to the rules in force throughout the Union in this field as well."@en1
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