11 Amendments of Dieter-Lebrecht KOCH related to 2009/2096(INI)
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the road safety target of halving the number of deaths on European roads during the period 2000- 2010 will not be met, although it has been very successful in motivating all stakeholders to make special efforts,
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas transport agencies playcan make an important role incontribution to the gradual creation of a European transport area, and whereas the road system, as the most used medium, needs a corresponding structure which will enable it to be more efficient and sustainable,
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises that the European Union’s overall road safety goal should be to have the safest roads in the world, thereby adopting a ‘Vision Zero’ approach which is not willing to accept serious injuries and fatalities as a given and thus requires the potential for improvements to be harnessed in all transport sectors, with the focus on utilisation of existing and future technologies;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Is convinced that the first building block of the future Road Safety Strategy should be to reduce the number of road deaths, with a realistic but ambitious long-term goal of at least a 40% reduction within 10 years, and, secondly, a separate target to reduce the number of serious injuries, including the development of standards for the compilation of the required data; states that special attention should be paid to unprotected road users in this context;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Is convinced that the European Commission should involve experts in traffic medicine and traffic psychology in the formulation of its future Road Safety Strategy;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Finds that transport plays an essential role in completing the European Single Market and the freedom of movement of people and goods, and that uniformly regulated market opening should be achieved, primarily in rail transport, in all EU Member States;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines that 75% of transport is road-based, and that based on a cost- benefit analysis, the need for an agency for road transport ishould therefore needed; calls forbe ascertained; such an agency would help to guarantee people’s fundamental right to secure mobility,. The basic prerequisite for the establishment of such an agency is that – without creating excessive additional bureaucracy – it should support new applications (such as Galileo and intelligent transport systems), conduct research programmes and, in addition, be able to take regulatory action if obstacles to the sustainable single market need to be removed;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls for concrete political and financial support to increase the contribution made both by private-sector and publicly-funded research towards the attainment of the EU’s goals in respect of sustainable road transport; emphasises the need to support research into all modes of transport, both in respect of new technologies and in the improvement of conventional technologies; calls, further, for consideration to be given to the transport system, including sustainable road transport, as a priority topic in the Eighth Framework Programme for Research;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Emphasises the need for a uniform definition of relevant terms relating to road safety and accident research, in order to ensure comparability of findings and any measures that may be implemented;
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 - indent 7 a (new)
Paragraph 20 - indent 7 a (new)
- measures to ensure that the White Paper and the new Road Safety Action Programme are mutually reinforcing and establishment of EU-wide targets for a reduction in serious injuries and fatalities on Europe’s roads by 2020,
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
- Calls on the European Commission to monitor progress towards the attainment of the targets set, and to report to the European Parliament every two years;