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7 Amendments of Jörg LEICHTFRIED related to 2009/2154(INI)

Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. having regard to recital 8 of this regulation, according to which the European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles engaged in International Road Transport of 1 July 1970 (the AETR) must be modified as soon as possible in order to align its provisions with this Regulation,
2010/04/07
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that in past reporting periods there have been significant delays, so that, for example, the current report of 3 August 2009 (the 24th report from the Commission analysing the penalties for serious infringements against the social rules in road transport) deals only with data from 2005 and 2006, and hence can draw hardly any conclusions about the current state of harmonisation of the social rules for road transport users;
2010/04/07
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Points out that while in 2005, 2006 and 2009 there were substantial changes to the social rules and their enforcement as a result of the adoption of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 and the amending of Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 and Directive 2006/22/EC, no meaningful data are so far available on the development of ‘social harmonisation’ in road transport;
2010/04/07
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to do their utmost to ensure that the objectives set out in Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 are fulfilled more quickly, so that more recent statistics are available for future harmonisation measures;
2010/04/07
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that Article 2 of Directive 2009/5/EC grants the Member States a transitional period after which they are required to enact the necessary legal and administrative provisions to enable them to comply with that directive by 31 December 2009 at the latest;
2010/04/07
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Points out, also, that the present Commission report of 15.05.2009 on analysing the penalties for serious infringements of the social rules in road transport as provided for in the Member States’ legislation cannot give any conclusive overview of the situation in the individual Member States as regards such categorisation by level of seriousness;
2010/04/07
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to do their utmost to ensure that the provisions of the AETR are brought into line with the provisions of this regulation very speedily. Should this not be achieved within the period of one year, the Commission proposes appropriate measures to deal with the situation;
2010/04/07
Committee: TRAN