8 Amendments of Kerstin WESTPHAL related to 2013/2062(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasises that the EU internal market is the most important factor in terms of ensuring a healthy future for the automotive industry: firstly, as a market for vehicles, it sets common technical standards, on behalf of 500 million consumers, on environmental performance, road safety, product safety and noise emissions, and these are valid and important for other industries beyond its borders; secondly, it is home to public and private research establishments offering cutting-edge research and thus helping to give the automotive industry a promising future;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Underscores the fact that the EU internal market should help to further not only the manufacture and sale of vehicle products but also the recyclability of vehicles and vehicle parts and the raw materials used in them;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Emphasises that the production and finishing of vehicles as an industrial product are at the end of a value chain essentially comprised of European supplier industries and that these upstream industries are also subject to the European-level and global challenges that confront the automotive industry. The European automotive supply sector not only innovates, thereby stimulating the development of European vehicles of the future, but also creates its own ancillary market for spare parts. This ancillary market and the operators within it merit as much attention as the finished vehicles market and the automotive manufacturers, and they should thus be on an equal footing with regard to the pooling and managing of product information;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the proposal for strengthening the market for alternative fuel vehicles, and urges that priority be given to the development of appropriate infrastructures through adequate investments at European and national level, and through common standards for alternative fuels and propulsion systems – an example of such an approach being the swift adoption of the legislative proposal and of a common standard on the recharging interface for electric vehicles; (COM(2013) 18 final, Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure)Or. de
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that the introduction of new propulsion technologies and alternative fuels implies major restructuring in the value chain of which vehicles are the end product, and that in some cases this can adversely affect workers who are part of that value chain; asks the Commission, therefore, to conduct a proper social impact assessment in respect of this technological restructuring in the EU internal market;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that the EU internal market must make room for and support the keepers, owners and drivers of historic vehicles and the businesses and employees who work on them because, with the number of historic vehicles rising steadily, their maintenance, use and conservation are important not only in terms of culture and tourism but also for the economy; emphasises, however, that there should be a restrictive definition of historic vehicles so that, as their numbers continue to grow, the negative – but currently quite limited – safety and environmental implications inevitably particular to historic vehicles that do not meet new- vehicle standards should remain limited;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Insists that current safety standards, particularly for L-class vehicles, be tightened, and that the safety requirements and under-run protective systems for lorries be improved.