Activities of Marcus PRETZELL related to 2014/2242(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on sustainable urban mobility
Amendments (9)
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to acknowledge that the EU´s part on global CO2 emissions is much lower than that of China, USA, India, with the consequence that, speaking globally, further reduction of EU-wide CO2-emissions would hardly achieve any measurable effect;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on Member States tothe Commission to comply with the EU principle of subsidiarity. Invites local authorities to consider facilitateing inter-modal transport systems and infomobility and, if judged necessary, to consider establishing areas to which access is limited exclusively to public transport, electric or car-sharing vehicles and bicycles;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 81 #
3a. Notes that under the Directive on the Deployment of Alternative Fuels Infrastructure agreed last year, Member States will develop their own national policy frameworks for the market-led development of recharge and refuelling points. Calls on the Commission to remember their own EU climate report 2014, where it is stated that with 31.7% the energy sector already produces the highest amount of CO2-emissions. Fostering e-cars would accordingly increase the CO2-emissions if calculated throughout the entire production chain and life-time consumption figures, and taking into account such a thorough energy balance is indispensable for plausible comparison with fuel-driven vehicles;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recommends Member States to encourage their regional, local and municipal authorities to consider improving traffic planning and management, especially as far as synchronising traffic lights is concerned, so that motor vehicles are no more forced to emit surplus CO2 at needless halts;
Amendment 105 #
5. Calls on the Commission aRecommends Member States to make tconsider economic and environmental sustainability when award ofing contracts for transport and logistics services conditional on the application of the highest sustainability criteria.;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls that generating sustainable urban mobility falls within the competence of local municipalities, which is highly reasonable as being well grounded in both local situation and potential problems, they are best placed to develop the individual solutions that are most appropriate to each town or city;