15 Amendments of Markus FERBER related to 2008/2218(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the early submission of the Commission's Green Paper on TEN-T, with the aim to review fundamentally the EU Transport Infrastructure and TEN-T policy, according to current and future transport, cross-border mobility, financial, economic, regional, social, safety and environmental challenges;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Agrees therefore to develop a more realistic network approach with corridors reflecting the needs for intermodal connections for citizens and freight; emphasises therefore that equal priority must be given to cross-border road and rail, ports, sustainable maritime and inland waterways and their hinterland connections or intermodal nodes in infrastructure links with and within new Member States;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to provide particular support for priority projects with intermodal links and consistent interoperability that pass through several Member States; points out that connecting economic areas along these priority projects is a national task;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to integrate climate protection and reduce oil dependency on fossil fuels while re-converting European infrastructure policy, to comply with the EU targets to reduce CO2 emissions and oil consumption by 20% (preferably 30%) by 2020, to integrate the Climate change package, and to apply a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) tossess the new proposals for future Financial Perspectives and Decisions on TEN-T guidelines from this perspective;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. UrgesCalls on the Commission to urge the Member States to integrate European environmental legislation into decision- making and planning for TEN-T projects, such as Natura 2000, SEA, EIA, Air Quality, Water Framework, Habitat and Bird Directives as well as the Transport and Environmental Reporting Mechanism (TERM)-reports on indicators for transport and environment by the European Environment Agency;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission to give particular priority to key projects relating to the main rail, road and inland waterway routes to ensure cross-border connections with the new Member States and with third countries;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission to seek to ensure that the points of departure and destination for maritime highways on Community territory (ports) that are supported with TEN funding are increasingly used by ships with low- emission engines;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the Commission to seek to ensure that the expansion of rail freight transport is intensified with a view to faster transport;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Welcomes in this connection the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning a European rail network for competitive freight (COM(2008)0852)and the above- mentioned Commission communication of 18 October 2007 entitled ‘Freight Transport Logistics Action Plan’;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Supports the Green Paper's "structural option CB for TEN-T shape", i.e. a dual layer, consisting of a comprehensive network, based on the current TEN-T maps, and an intermodal "core network", still to be defined and withreducing the TEN-T to a single layer characterised by priority projects and possible connection into a priority network and with road and rail, sustainable waterways and ports as priorities;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Supports the concept of a ‘core network’ consisting of a ‘geographical pillar’ and a ‘conceptual pillar’, whereby the ‘conceptual pillar’ contains criteria and objectives enabling projects, corridors and network parts to be identified flexibly over time rather than rigidly at the start of the budgeting period for the entire period; takes the view that it should be possible to expand TEN-T flexibly during the budgeting period in order to adapt to changing market conditions;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission to ensure in this connection that projects assessed under EU financing programmes take account of their possible impact on national financing for other necessary investments (which are not supported from EU funds); takes the view, in particular, that the appropriations used by Member States to supplement EU-funded projects should not be allocated at the expense of maintaining or investing in feeder lines; takes the view, rather, that projects should therefore be drawn up and assessed at least partially on the basis of their potential for integrating (and not neglecting) the development and maintenance of the necessary supplementary feeder infrastructure;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19