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"Mr President, I am going to read the Commission’s statement on the evaluation of driving hours and rest periods.
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 entered into force on 11 April 2007, about two years ago, replacing the rules on driving hours and rest periods that had remained unchanged for more than twenty years.
Since it was adopted, the Commission has been actively monitoring its application, including through several meetings with the Member States, industry and unions, in the committee and in various working groups created by the committee.
Soon the Commission is going to publish the biannual report on the implementation of social rules. One of the preliminary conclusions is that the efforts and investment made by the Member States in terms of monitoring should be increased in order to reach the levels required by European legislation.
The initiatives taken by the Commission include the guidelines, which will be published in agreement with the Member States and aim to ensure harmonised application of the rules on driving hours and rest periods, for example in cases in which a driver has to interrupt his rest period due to an emergency.
The Commission is also working actively on improving the digital tachograph. In January, a package of measures to increase the safety of the system was adopted. The Member States must therefore develop specific equipment to monitor the tachograph.
A second package of measures to adapt the technical specifications for the tachograph is currently being discussed in committee procedure. These measures will make it easier for drivers to use tachographs by simplifying the manual entries.
The Commission concludes from this observation of the application of the Regulation that, over the last two years, the new legislation on driving hours and rest periods has been a success. Therefore, the Commission, in agreement with the Member States, has just convinced the countries that are signed up to the AETR (international road transport) Agreement to take on these new rules from 2010. However, the Member States do of course have to ensure that these social rules are applied in a harmonised way in Europe.
This is what I had to say to Parliament on behalf of the Commission, and I am going to listen closely to the comments from the various MEPs."@en1
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