believe that we need to take action more quickly so as to achieve harmonisation in this area as well. I can live with these minimum standards, but I would ask the Commission to monitor the situation very carefully. But I believe that we should do all we can to keep the transport of dangerous goods to a minimum, in all countries, whether they are transit countries or not. I hope my proposal will be taken into consideration in tomorrow's vote. I would like to ask the Vice-President if she is in a position to tell us today what the state of play is with regard to the efforts towards harmonisation being made by these two organisations, and whether the EU is in a position to hasten these harmonisation