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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, transport is, for many people, still a burden, a nuisance, that unfortunately consumes resources and produces noise and environmental damage, but at the same time, mobility is more essential today than it has ever been before. It is necessary for the functioning of our societies, both internally and in dealings between our societies. It is the basis of our prosperity and a symbol of individual freedom. It is a basic requirement that I would like to see developed further into a basic right for everyone, particularly for older people and people with disabilities.
I would therefore like to thank and praise the Commission for its visions in the White Paper, even though I do not agree with all the details in every case. The fundamental concern of making transport more efficient, cleaner and safer and not restricting it arbitrarily or shifting modes at any price is something that I support wholeheartedly.
I would like to express my particular appreciation to our rapporteur, Mr Grosch. He has succeeded in picking out the added value in transport policy and drawing up coherent, specific objectives without calling technological openness into question. The aim of having EU-wide standards for safety, passengers and goods, transport chains, information and communications systems, energy and the environment, but also for working and social conditions, is something that I very much welcome.
However, I very much regret the lack of courage to take a position with regard to road trains, which I rightly call eco-liners. Although the reference to subsidiarity sounds good, it is nevertheless merely a way of yielding to the critics of these vehicles. With regard to the use of eco-liners in particular, I would call for shared competence. That is a lot better. With the text in the report, we are missing an opportunity to develop minimum standards, specifications and framework conditions that the Member States could apply when conducting their approval procedures according to the principle of subsidiarity. Thus, I fear that a European patchwork of approval and application criteria will emerge that we will later have to eliminate with a great deal of expense and bureaucracy. We are also missing an opportunity for a new vehicle design. Such vehicles must be fitted with the most important environmental protection and safety-related vehicle assistance systems."@en1
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