2 Amendments of Maria GRAPINI related to 2017/2186(DEC)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is concerned that in its procedure for the procurement services, S2R JU sets a maximum contract budget, which does not seem to be based on a cost estimation process and a reasonable market price reference system; asks the S2R JU to put in place appropriate cost estimation processes before launching procurement procedures; in order to prevent bottlenecks;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the importance offact that research and innovation in the rail sector are decisive for the development of a safe and globally competitive rail sector and play an important role in order to achieve a significant reduction of the life-cycle cost of the railway transport system and to achieve significant increases in capacity of the railway transport system, in reliability and punctuality, as well as in order to remove the remaining technical obstacles to interoperability and to reduce the negative externalities linked to transport;