Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-29-Speech-4-132"
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"The report contains many constructive proposals for improving road safety in Europe. We think, however, that the EU is being given a disproportionate role in road safety work. The report points out that, if all the Member States were to achieve the same results as the United Kingdom and Sweden, the number of fatalities would fall by 17 000 a year in the European Union of 25 Member States, representing a reduction of 39%. The report also points out that, through a campaign launched in 2002, France succeeded in reducing the number of fatalities by 30% over two years.
The individual Member States can, then, improve their own road safety records, and it is they who, in the last analysis, are responsible for these issues. Political responsibility lies with the national parliaments.
This report goes too far in, for example, even calling upon the Commission to promote training as early as at elementary school level with a view to reducing the death rate among the young. Responsibility for integrating road safety training into school curricula lies with the Member States.
We are voting against this report as we think it is based on false ideas about the political level at which responsibility for road safety issues lies."@en1
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