11 Amendments of Karima DELLI related to 2009/2096(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Supports the Commission’s initiative to outline a strategy for a future sustainable transport policy in the EU; agrees that the European transport system is still far from sustainable in many respects, for example as regards contribution to climate change, consumption of non- renewable energy resources, fine particle emissions, road deaths and damage to biodiversity and landscapes; stresses the importance of the relationship between cohesion and transport policy in achieving the broader goal of sustainable regional development;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that an integrated approach to infrastructure planning, project financing and development can play a central role in developing a competitive and susustainable transport sector; acknowledges the need for a spatial organisation of functions that takes greater account of existainable transport sectorg transport infrastructure, and takes the view that priority should be given to scaling up policies to combat urban spread and motor vehicle dependency; stresses that local and regional authorities often cannot meet transport challenges without co- operation, calling therefore for their and the stakeholders’ active involvement in the policy development and implementation process;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the role that cohesion policy can play in developing transport infrastructure by ensuring that priority is given to the main networks and not merely stand- alone projects; recommends that transport projects co-financed from the Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund are oriented towards pursuing the goal of balancedpriority goal of sustainable development and achieving greater territorial cohesion and calls for a better coordination between Community Funds and national funds;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for the highest possible proportion of the EU funding earmarked for the transport sector to be channelled into existing infrastructure, intermodal platforms, ports and railways;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the added value of interregional, cross-border and transnational cooperation in addressing challenges faced by the transport sector; therefore calls for the trans-border considerations to be taken into account in future transport policy; stresses the need to find a simpler, more transparent and more effective way of bringing INTERREG funding to bear in support of inter-regional cooperation;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes the increasing trend of urbanisation in Europe; stresses the need to ensure high quality and accessible transport services to citizens in urban areas, with a view to avoiding urban spread and the energy wastage it entails; highlights the EU’s role in fostering cooperation between urban areas to allow for sharing and exchanging of best practice to make transport systems more sustainable; stresses that, in towns with more than 100 000 inhabitants, the development of a sustainable urban mobility plan should be linked to issues such as cofinanced transport projects, EU greenhouse gas and hydrocarbons consumption targets and EU environmental legislation;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that although rail liberalisation is linked with the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector as a whole and promoting regional development; notes however, that liberalisation should, it must not not have the unintended consequence of making rail transport less competitive vis-a-vis road transport and; considers, accordingly, that due regard must be given to ensuring that peripheral regions do not lose rail connectivity;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the importance of developing short-sea shipping as a sustainable mode of transport which can alsoby making a geographically more balanced use of sea ports that will help to ensure a drastic reduction in road transport, in particular in fragile mountain areas that are seriously at risk of or already affected by environmental damage, such as the Alps, and, at the same time improve the connectivity and development of peripheral and outermost regions;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Supports the development and introduction of a sustainable mobility management method based on the promotion and development of a decentralised consumption and production system that will avoid unnecessary and inefficient transport of goods;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recognises that regional airports play a crucial role in the development of peripheral and outermost regions by increasing their connectivity with hubs; considers it particularly useful toConsiders it particularly necessary to provide sustainable modes of transport by applying intermodal solutions where possible; takes the view that (high-speed) rairail and intermodal links between airpplatfortms offer an ideal opportunity to sustainably link different modes of transport, in particular in peripheral and outermost regions.