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12 Amendments of Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI related to 2015/2350(INI)

Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas waterborne passenger transport in the fields of coastal (short sea) shipping, inland and maritime ferries, urban mobility, cruises and tourism offers great potential for using available excess capacity in terms of both infrastructure and vessels, and whereas in recent years there has been a trend towards intensive development of vessels for different areas of navigation, i.e. river-sea vessels, which meet the requirements on sea-going vessels and are also able to navigate shallow waters;
2016/06/30
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas waterborne passenger transport in the fields of coastal (short sea) shipping, inland and maritime ferries, urban mobility, cruises and tourism offers great potential for using available excess capacity in terms of both infrastructure and vessels; whereas technological developments have once again made waterborne transport an alternative to congested access roads to city centres;
2016/06/30
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas inland waterway transport has been recognised as an environmentally-friendly mode of transport, requiring special attention and support, and whereas the White Paper recommends promoting maritime and inland waterway transport, increasing the share of coastal and inland shipping and improving transport safety;
2016/06/30
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the need to eliminate bottlenecks in the connections between the extended West European inland waterway system and the existing East European system, which has suffered considerable, and in places total, degradation;
2016/06/30
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to promote and support local initiatives aimed at activating inland waterway transport as a means of supplying agglomerations, including by developing distribution centres in river ports and developing passenger transport, primarily to make the areas concerned more attractive to tourists;
2016/06/30
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises that WPT should be better integrated into information, booking and ticketing systems in order to improve the quality of public services and further develop the tourism sector; stresses the need to take waterborne passenger transport operators into account in the work on the European integrated ticketing system;
2016/06/30
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Notes the need for greater emphasis to be placed on the safety of the crew and passengers of coastal vessels in the context of uncontrolled flows of illegal immigrants to Europe by sea; calls on the Commission to make a specific effort to secure and adequately protect the external maritime borders of the European Union;
2016/06/30
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Notes the huge possibilities which supporting the eastern border of the European Union on the Bug River could have for developing cross-border cooperation with Belarus and Ukraine; calls on the Commission to pay more attention to the potential of this connection for developing the tourism potential of the EU's eastern regions;
2016/06/30
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Encourages the Commission to integrate the principles of Regulation (EU) No 1177/2010 into its proposal on intermodal passenger rights, including aspects of barrier-free accessibility for people with disabilities or reduced mobility, and also to take account in it of the special needs of the elderly and families travelling with children;
2016/06/30
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Notes the great potential in creating convenient connections between inland waterway routes and the European network of cycle routes for increasing the attractiveness to tourists of many EU regions; stresses the need to take into account the needs of people travelling with bicycles using waterborne passenger transport;
2016/06/30
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Highlights the potential and desirability of integrating WPT into a multimodal mobility framework, taking into account public transport in large agglomerations, for both commuters and tourists; considers, in this connection, that further improvements are needed in order to develop integrated ticketing schemes, to enhance reliability, comfort, punctuality and frequency and to achieve faster boarding times in order to attract passengers;
2016/06/30
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Proposes that a European inland navigation agency be established to bring about the ‘single area for waterborne passenger transport’ and to strive to converge the governance and regulatory systems that already exist for the Rhine, the Danube and other inland waterways;deleted
2016/06/30
Committee: TRAN