Ved andenbehandlingen af dette direktiv om de tekniske forskrifter for fartøjer på indre vandveje har vi at gøre med en rest fra forrige århundrede, for allerede i december 1997 havde Kommissionen stillet et forslag om det tidligere direktiv 82/714/EØF, som allerede dengang var forældet, men som stadig gælder i dag. Førstebehandlingen fandt så sted i oktober 1998 i Europa-Parlamentet.
As we now move to the second reading of the draft directive on the technical requirements for inland waterway vessels, we are handling a relic from the previous century, for it was as long ago as December 1997 that the Commission submitted a proposal in respect of the previous directive, 82/714/EEC, which was superannuated even then, but is still in force today, and this proposal’s first reading in this House was in October 1998.