Bautista Ojeda (Verts/ALE). – (ES) We have tried to seek a compromise. I believe there are two ways of carrying out politics. The inflexible way, which makes dialogue difficult, and the flexible way, which involves giving ground and trying to be constructive, a positive politics.

We propose accepting a combination of passive and active measures (which in any event could have been included in another directive!) in the event that we replace the European Experimental Vehicles Committee (EEVC) tests, provided that these passive measures do not constitute more than 25% of all the measures. The alternative measures to the effective EEVC tests (which have proven to be effective for more than 20 years) should not therefore differ from the latter by more than 25%.

We concede that the EEVC tests can be subject to a further viability study (like the alternative measures which the industry may present). The condition is that this study must be entirely independent.

Finally, we wanted to clarify that the alternative measures must, in all cases, maintain the same level of protection as the EEVC tests, so that they protect all the parts of the body included on those tests.

I believe that my group has made a great effort to make these concessions and I hope that you will accept them and that they will improve the protection of pedestrians.