23 Amendments of Marco VALLI related to 2015/2324(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the Alpine countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia, and Switzerland) and the EU have signed the Alpine Convention for the sustainable development and protection of the Alps;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas in order to give effect to the principles laid down in the Framework Convention and to the initiatives to be implemented at the practical level, a number of protocols have been adopted, setting out specific measures on a range of subjects including transport, tourism, soil conservation, spatial planning, sustainable development, and nature conservation and landscape protection;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the Alpine Region for the purposes of EUSALP has a population of roughly 72 million European citizens and encompasses vast lowland areas, but the Alpine Region as defined in the Alpine Convention, which has also been ratified by the EU, has a population of only 6 million, living mainly in mountain areas;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region is seeking to enhance public transport and high-speed Internet connectivity, protect the environment and water in particular, raise the status of bottom-up local and cross-border governance models, and aid SMEs;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas the balance to be struck between transport infrastructure and regional conservation has for decades been marked out as the main challenge and a goal for the international community of states and regions belonging to the Alpine Region;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
Ce. whereas the new base tunnel on the Turin to Lyon Alpine route, though financed by European funds, does not comply with the requirements of Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 (TEN-T) or Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 (CEF), given that there are no bottlenecks involved, and whereas the same route is already served by a newly modernised railway line that will be able to cope with the expected increase in freight and passenger transport demand;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas in its communication on the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region the Commission points both to the need to reduce the impact of transport across the Alps, so as to preserve the Alpine environmental heritage, and to the importance of implementing a strategy to deliver a healthier and better preserved living environment for local people;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Urges the Commission to refrain from implementing and/or financing infrastructure projects that might prove harmful to the environment, natural resources, and public health, and points to the need to save the financial resources of the EU and Member States by making optimum use of existing infrastructure;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas, although EU funding was provided for the project, the new base tunnel on the Turin to Lyon Alpine route does not comply with the requirements of Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 (TEN-T) and Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 (CEF), given that there are no bottlenecks involved, and whereas the same route is already served by a newly modernised railway line that will be able to cope with the expected increase in freight and passenger transport demand;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to redefine transport planning and promote, as a matter of priority, a policy to develop transport infrastructure that is sustainable, inclusive and non-invasive for the region, preserving the latter and promoting it in terms of tourism, social cohesion and regional development, bearing in mind that, for planning purposes, priority should be given not to ensuring the shortest or fastest transport routes but to minimising the environmental impact thereof;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers that the new base tunnel on the Turin-Lyon alpine route is detrimental to health, the environment and the region itself, as well as being uneconomic; calls on the Commission and the Member States to bear in mind that the already existing railway line has recently been upgraded and is able to meet anticipated freight and passenger requirements;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Insists on the involvement of Parliament in theEUSALP governing bodies of the EUSALPance and decision-making;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission to ensure easy and convenient access to documents both for European citizens and for the institutions, in order to ensure transparency regarding the use of public funds, and stresses that, in cases where access is being sought for reasons relating to health and the environment, this must always take priority over any considerations whatsoever relating to competition or commercial data privacy protection;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission to ensure easy and convenient access to documents both for European citizens and for the institutions, in order to ensure transparency regarding the use of public funds, and stresses that, in cases where access is being sought for reasons relating to health and the environment, this must always take priority over any considerations whatsoever relating to competition or commercial data privacy protection;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Points to the urgent need to bring a halt to the intensification of land use, not least by implementing policies promoting urban renewal and sustainable tourism facilities, such as 'alberghi diffusi';
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses the importance of improving transport and energy connectivity among the participating countries, including local, regional and cross-border transport and intermodal connections with the hinterland, also in order to attract new residents, assessing first and foremost, however, whether existing networks can be renovated and/or expanded;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Underlines the importance of connecting transport routes with other parts of Europe and the relevance of interconnections with TEN-T corridorneed to make optimum use of existing infrastructure and save the financial resources of the Union and the Member States; calls on the participating countries to focus their efforts on implementing projects that are covered by the current TEN-T networknot harmful to health, the environment and local development;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Maintains that the financing of new transport infrastructure should be conditional upon the modernisation and full exploitation of existing infrastructure, which is often under-utilised;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Considers that the new base tunnel on the Turin-Lyon alpine route is particularly detrimental to health, the environment and the region itself, as well as being uneconomic; calls on the Commission and the Member States to bear in mind that the already existing railway line has recently been upgraded and is able to meet anticipated freight and passenger requirements;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Stresses the importance of identifying the sources and types of air pollution that are typical of the Alpine macro-region, such as industrial and diesel engine emissions in the Po Valley in northern Italy and woody biomass combustion, in order to take effective action by means of specific policies to drastically reduce them;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Considers it a matter of priority, in addition, to reduce emissions of persistent organic pollutants in the macro-region from both diffuse sources, such as transport, and point sources, such as industrial installations and incinerators, as well as those from the combustion of woody biomass for electricity production;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Urges Member States to actively involve and consult all stakeholders in the decision-making procedures concerning the macro-region, particularly local communities, which must be able to exercise their right to protect their environment and health when these are endangered by economic activities and infrastructure projects that are even only potentially dangerous and polluting;