Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2015-02-10-Speech-2-211-000"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20150210.7.2-211-000"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spoken text |
"Madam President, I welcome this measure very much and I welcome the support given by our Commissioner on this issue. Now make no mistake, this is a road safety measure. It is about deterrence and it is about good governance; it is not about burdensome or unfair regulation. All the offences considered are serious offences. In particular, speed we know is a primary factor in up to a third – if not more – of fatal collisions in the EU, and is an aggravating factor in most other collisions. So this is something that we really need to get a grip on.
In my country, I know that this has not been universally welcomed and in many cases we have been urged to try to stay out of this. I am calling on the government today to change its view and to try and implement this more quickly than it has said it can. Just on the figures, there are some very extreme examples both ways of how this has worked out. On a London ring road, people going twice the speed limit in foreign-registered vehicles are not being caught; similarly if you look at the French figures, 500 000 people in UK-registered cars are getting away with speeding offences every single year. So this is something which works both ways. It works for the benefit of all across the EU and it also underlines the need to do more on road safety in general in order to meet our road safety targets, which we are going to be at a push to meet by 2020 – in particular, making sure that conditionality on road safety is a point on all major transport infrastructure projects in line with the Trans-European Network guidelines. EU funding should not go towards projects on urban mobility or on transport unless road safety is absolutely a top priority."@en1
|
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:unclassifiedMetadata | |
| lpv:videoURI |
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples