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dcterms:Date	"2005-09-27"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050927.22.2-292"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-27-Speech-2-2932
lpv:speaker	lp:Elisabeth Jeggle2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2006-02-05)3 member; AGRI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; FEMM (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; TRAN (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the achievement of smoothly running cross-border rail-freight and passenger services requires not only harmonisation of technical standards, but also harmonisation and standardisation of professional, linguistic and medical requirements. This could be accomplished by means of the standardisation of competence mentioned in our proposal. We would thus achieve better interoperability of train crews in addition to improved rail-transport safety. This model would only be a real success, however, if, in the final reckoning, it were to mean less tape. I am very much obliged to the rapporteur, Mr Savary, for his constructive cooperation and also the compromises that have been reached. Firstly, we have managed to achieve a consensus in Committee even on critical points such as the extension that had been called for in the scope of the directive from train drivers to other train crew. We have agreed on a two-stage process, whereby the Railway Agency shall decide on the necessity of certification for other on-board staff at a later date. Secondly, we have managed to reduce the original subdivision into three categories of driving licence to two, which will lead to administrative simplification and streamlining. Thirdly, as regards regular monitoring of train drivers, we should like this to apply to only those aspects that concern the driving ability of the train driver. Fourthly, we wish the date on which the directive is introduced to coincide with the opening-up of the markets. Fifthly, on the issue of whether certification should relate only to train drivers on cross-border services or also include those on domestic services, we propose a gradual process of certification of all train drivers. All in all, these are pragmatic, unbureaucratic solutions that will have a simplifying and streamlining effect. This has been, and continues to be, the aim of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in this House. For this reason, and also because of the compromises that have been reached, the PPE-DE Group rejects Amendments 46 and 50. By way of conclusion, I should like to say a few words about the report on passengers’ rights: more particularly Amendment 138. This aims to put in place an entitlement under EU law to transport bicycles on all trains, and such an obsession with regulation, down to the last detail, is a further example of why much of the public is sceptical towards Europe. Ladies and gentlemen, let us give out the right signals."@en1

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