24 Amendments of Dieter-Lebrecht KOCH related to 2012/2298(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
– having regard to the European Parliament’s own-initiative report ‘Towards a European road safety area: policy orientations on road safety 2011- 2020’ (2010/2235(INI)),
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas innovation is essential in order to create a more intelligent, smarter and safer transport system for the public and meet the environmental challenges facing the transport sector and to achieve a low- carbon economy;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas in 2012 more than 31 000 people were still killed and more than 1 500 000 injured – in some cases seriously – in road accidents in the European Union;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas technologies are already available which will help to attain the objectives of the ‘European transport safety area’, but have not yet been placed on the market;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that efforts to reduce the number of people killed or injured on the roads must be unremitting; urges the Commission to consider and implement proposals for improving road safety which have been adopted in Parliament by a large majority;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Considers that a change in transport technology is right and important; stresses, however, that this change must be brought about not by means of prohibitions but by providing incentives to use new low-resource technologies;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Supports the ‘user pays’ principle; calls, however, for revenue from user charges and similar fees to be assigned to the mode of transport which the user makes use of, in order to finance additional building, repair and maintenance and environmental measures; these funds may also be used for research and innovation in transport, but must not be diverted to other fields of policy;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Calls for legal certainty for existing legislation and its long-term goals; considers that, if these goals are attained before the end of the set period, this should not be penalised by setting even stricter limit values for them;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Stresses that there must not be any prohibitions on thinking about innovations involving new transport solutions or about the use of tried and tested procedures in new combinations;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 f (new)
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6f. Considers that the European transport system with all its components, such as Galileo, can only be maintained, and research and development into/of new transport technologies can only continue, if at least the same amount of funding is allocated by the Member States as in recent years;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 g (new)
Paragraph 6 g (new)
6g. Observes that all modes of transport must interact in a complementary manner; calls for the development of scientifically sound targets for transfers of traffic between modes; these should be based on common indicators; advances with respect to modal transfer targets should be statistically evaluated and checked in a fixed cycle; observes that transfers between modes should be achieved not through legislation but rather by eliminating obstacles and improving quality standard; in this way, market forces will be able to operate;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that R&I in the area of sustainable mobility should be based on the principle of integration, in particular through the abolition trans-border missing links (interconnections), and increased compatibility between and within theransport systems (interoperability); and a shif strategy is needed to select tohe more sustainable modes, such as rail and sustainable waterborne transport (intermodality)st appropriate modes of transport, not simply ‘shifts’ between modes;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises the need for stronger research efforts in relation to eco-social knowledge, urban and spatial planning, and technologies in the field of mobility demand and behavioural change aimed at the reduction and avoidance of transport flows, through, inter alia, innovative mobility management instruments, seamless door-to-door mobility chains corresponding to users’ requirements, eco-driving and the use of information and communication technologies;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines the need for research on fair competition in the transport sector, including technological tools for improving the enforcement of, and controls on, social conditions and minimum working conditions and wages;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Confirms that efforts to achieve cleaner power for transport and mobility technologies should be linked to more efficient concepts involving less volume and weight, as well as better vehicle design; underlines the potential of innovative energy savings through better use of wind, waves, sun, gravitation and regenerative forces;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses the need not only to think about building new transport infrastructure but, in research and development strategies, also explicitly to take into account the aspects of repair, maintenance and upgrading (e.g. equipping it with components for intelligent traffic management and ‘car to infrastructure’ technology);
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Calls on the Commission to support technology which has already been researched and developed by means of appropriate legislation for rapid application throughout Europe, and, as in the case of eCall, to save 2 500 lives per annum in order to attain the objectives of a European strategy for transport technology using existing means;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Calls on the Commission to consider the harmonisation of containers and other transport receptacles and the dimensions of vehicles in all modes of transport in order to promote the objective of interoperability;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)
Paragraph 11 d (new)
11d. Calls on the Commission always to include in its impact assessments consideration of any increase in red tape and the social impact on citizens and transport users; calls on the Commission furthermore to review existing legislation to identify possible reductions in red tape and implement them as quickly as possible;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 e (new)
Paragraph 11 e (new)
11e. Calls on the Commission and its agency to provide Member States with a manual of best practice for compliance with the limit values laid down in the Air Quality Directive;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for more R&I in relation to the shift from ownership to sharing mobility models, includingunconventional user behaviour such as car- and bike-sharing; encourages the Commission to intensify its promotion of more collectivised individual mobility and more individualised public and collective transport systems;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Endorses and supports the approach proposed by the Commission with its measures for a European transport technology strategy; stresses, however, that this does not provide a legal basis for delegated legal acts or the like but that the Commission must propose measures for adoption under codecision;