Activities of Marie-Christine ARNAUTU related to 2015/2348(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on logistics in the EU and multimodal transport in the new TEN-T corridors PDF (359 KB) DOC (75 KB)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas efficient transport and logistics are essential for the effective functioning of the EU’s internal market and important for ensuring competitiveness, creating new business and employment opportunities, and protecting the environment and mitigating climate change;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas a forward-looking EU logistics policy should strive to help the logistics sector maintain its global competitiveness and contribution to the EU economy in the light of evolving economic, societal and technological trends and trade links worldwide;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the importance attached tof ensuring free movement of persons, goods and services, including by an efficient and sustainable freight transport system, for the prosperity and economic, socialof multinational businesses and the economic and territorial cohesion of the EU;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that a seamless EU infrastructure system will only deliver its benefits to multinational businesses in the logistics sector if the Union’s agreed legislation is properly transposed into national law, avoiding additional legal requirements that hamper the free exchange of goods; calls on the Member States to refrain from introducing new barriers, and urges the Commission to bring to the Court of Justice Member States that delay the implementation of EU law, which currently constitutes the only objective really pursued by the EU;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is concerned about the negative impact on the logistics sector, although it is a positive for the safety of EU citizens, of closures of internal borders in connection with the ‘refugee crisis’; calls on the Member States and the Commission to take freight flows into account when adopting such measures;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 2
Paragraph 4 – indent 2
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that while the comprehensive network is mainly a responsibility of the Member States, both layers are crucial to EU logistics, bringing capillarity to the core network, feeding the corridors with traffic, and performing last- mile distribution; takes the view that secondary networks should not be left outside the European purview, including in terms of financing and regulatory measures, in particular those pertaining to access to the network, slot allocation and charges;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. RegretNotes that too often Member States’ national infrastructure plans are decided without reference to the TEN-T objectives; urgessuggests that the Commission to increase coordination between the two levels of planning and suggests adding to the European Semester a chapter on supervising its coherence with appropriate corrective measures; calls on the Commission not to prioritise Member State projects that are not in line with the TEN-T programming;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses the urgency of a greater simplification of documents and administrative and customs procedures across modes; calls on the Commission and the Member States, under the ‘better regulation’ agreement to analyse redundant EU legislation on transport and mobility and additionally to monitor national, regional and local rules that could be in contradiction with EU law;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines the importance of digitalisation, access to data and data exchange as enablers for more efficient transport and logistics solutions, provided interoperability and equal and non- discriminatory access areis ensured;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. WelcomNotes the Commission’s first steps to introduce fuel standards for heavy commercial vehicles (HCVs) and CO2 limits; is of the opinion that increased size of HCVs would entail a deep revision of the infrastructure and operational standards of the TEN-T network and that alternatives such as reducing ‘empty returns’ could achieve greater efficiency gains with less impact on the infrastructure;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that further measures are needed to make road transport more efficient and environmentally friendly in the logistics chain; calls for the possibility to be introduced in the core network corridors of allowing loaded HCVs running on clean alternative fuels compliant with the highest emissions, noise, safety and social standards to circulate without restrictions 365 days a year; insists that the core-network corridors be provided at least with alternative filling stations and safe truck parking areas;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Notes with concern that the logistics sector will face a shortage of workforce in the coming years and that slow adaptation of its workforce to digital technologies could undermine the sector’s performance; calls on the Commission to identify training and learning needs at EU level, and working conditions, costs and barriers that discourage the workforce from entering the transport sector, and to propose as a matter of urgency measures to make it more attractive to young people and to future generations; regards this as an opportunity to increase the proportion of women and new entrantsthe millions of people who are currently unemployed on the transport labour market, for example EU migrants;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls onUrges the Commission and the Member States to take into consideration the recent EP recommendations on fighting ‘social dumping’, made possible by EU directives, in the transport sector;