Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-07-06-Speech-3-292-500"
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"en.20110706.18.3-292-500"2
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"Studies have shown that foreign drivers are responsible for a disproportionately high number of road accidents, and particularly those caused by speeding. The penalties imposed for offences committed on the territory of a Member State other than the one in which the offending driver is resident are very often not enforced, and this applies particularly to automatically recorded offences, the number of which has substantially increased with the expansion in automatic radar systems on Europe’s roads. This relative immunity undermines the fulfilment of objectives in the area of road traffic safety and casts doubt on the justification for these controls in the eyes of European citizens, who demand that resident and foreign drivers are treated in the same way. On the one hand, I welcome the fact that, at first reading, the Council transferred the legal basis from transport policy to police cooperation, since I regard the new legal basis as being neater in legislative terms. On the other hand, it concerns me that the Council has used these amendments to weaken the integration elements by removing references to enforcement procedures, and has limited its proposal to the exchange of information. Enforcement thus remains non-mandatory, dependent on the decisions of individual Member States and the relevant national procedures. In my opinion, an opportunity to make an effective contribution to increasing road traffic safety in the EU has been wasted."@en1
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