Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-04-11-Speech-1-148"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-04-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Road transport2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050411.18.1-148"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-04-11-Speech-1-1492
lpv:speaker	lp:Luis de Grandes Pascual2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Popular (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-16--2007-01-17)3 member; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; JURI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2008-06-04)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2004-09-16--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen. The new reality of Europe has a very particular effect in territories such as Spain and others, which have become peripheral given the locations of the main European markets. For these peripheral countries, the need for longer journeys is much more probable than for the central countries, which are closer to the centres of production and consumption. In order to try to relieve this situation, we believe it would be fair to establish flexibility formulae, in order to prevent adverse geography from progressively diminishing the competitiveness of transport in the Union. In a situation such as this, legislative zeal leads to excesses, and rather than harmonisation, rigid rules can create an imbalance in the conditions faced by drivers from the peripheral States. The obligation to take a further rest period after six consecutive driving periods means that long-distance drivers often cannot return to their places of origin and that they therefore have to take their weekly rests during the journey. This is truly worthy of condemnation since the rest conditions often far from match those we might consider necessary for maintaining a reasonable quality of life: remaining confined and isolated in the rest area of a motorway, without accommodation or appropriate sanitary conditions, in a faraway country and, furthermore, with no possibility of leaving the vehicle out of fear of robbery. This situation is all the more horrendous given that, in theory, it is claimed that these measures are intended to guarantee adequate rest conditions. The concept of ‘long distance’ has been taken up in other sectors, such as deep-sea fishing. Furthermore, in the field of transport, French legislation distinguishes between short-distance and long-distance drivers. It is essential that we distinguish between each of these cases in order not to penalise long-distance drivers nor the legitimate interests of the peripheral countries."@en1

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