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"en.20130701.16.1-103-000"2
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"Mr President, I have recently been in contact with the President of the Caravan Club of Great Britain. He is most concerned about this possible new legislation. I personally am horrified. I don’t know how many other people here I speak for, but I was a caravanner for many years and belonged to the Caravan Club – not to attend their gatherings and rallys and so on, but to obtain advice and information, including tips on how to tow.
I hardly use my caravan in the UK. I brought it across the Channel and had my holidays here. I’ve towed it all the way from Calais to the south of France. I’ve taken it over the Alps into Italy. I’ve gone around the Alps in Switzerland and other places, all without an accident of any description. Nor did I see one with any other caravan, and nor did I see a caravan on a caravan site which had obviously been damaged in an accident. Why? Because I took my caravan for servicing myself every year.
I did not want to part company with my caravan down a German autobahn. Neither does anybody else! Do people not understand that if a caravan is not in good order and has an accident on its own, like snaking or suddenly departing from its pre-designed course, then it takes the car with it and everybody in the car will suffer injury if not death?
Caravanners, in spite of what they might look like, are not mad. They will look after their caravans for the sake of their own necks. This proposed regulation is completely superfluous and I will oppose it with all my strength."@en1
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