10. Stresses the need finally to address the ‘book famine’ experienced by visually impaired and print-disabled people; reminds the Commission and Member States of their obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to take all appropriate measures to ensure that people with disabilities enjoy access to cultural materials in accessible formats, and to ensure that laws protecting intellectual property rights do not constitute an unreasonable or discriminatory barrier to access by people with disabilities to cultural materials; calls on the Commission to work actively ...[+++] and positively within the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to agree on a binding legal norm based on the treaty proposal drafted by the World Blind Union and tabled at WIPO in 2009;

1. A distinction should be drawn between visual actions, which may be tolerated, provided they are not offensive and/or defamatory, remain within reasonable bounds and do not lead to conflict, and those which actively disrupt any parliamentary activity whatsoever.

Even though there is room for further improvement in passive safety (e.g. seat belt reminders, day time running lights, elimination of dead angles, conspicuity of heavy goods vehicles, better pedestrian protection), the future lies in the improvement of active safety thanks to the wide implementation of electronic devices (“smart cars”).

As for the other parts of the acquis, Hungary should not have difficulty in applying it in the medium term, provided it continues its current preparation for accession in the following fields: education, training and youth; research and technological development; telecommunications; audio-visual; small and medium enterprises; international trade relations, and development.