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"Mr President, the text before us is, indeed, a compromise and we would have liked to have been a little more ambitious here and there, particularly when it comes to the timing and the level of the penalties.
On the other hand, it is important that emission standards are established for this category of vehicles - something which seems to have slipped through the net a bit, seeing as a number of rules already exist for both passenger cars and goods vehicles. The trend is heading in the right direction, but – as you have said yourself – the number of LCVs has increased enormously in recent years and it looks as if that number will continue to rise in years to come.
As a member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, I would like to return briefly to speed limits. We in the Committee have proposed that the speed limit be set at 120 kilometres per hour from 2018, which is really not unreasonable. As you know, there is already a limit for goods vehicles, and I think that, for both environmental and road safety reasons, it would be advisable to lay this down in law. It seems to me that you have to do that at European level, because there is little sense in leaving this to Member States.
Consequently, Commissioner, I would like to invite you to revisit this issue, together with your colleague, Mr Kallas – he is here in the Chamber with us – study it and put forward a proposal. I think that this would be a positive thing for your respective areas of responsibility: the environment and road safety."@en1
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