7 Amendments of Erik BERGKVIST related to 2021/0223(COD)
Amendment 276 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31
Recital 31
(31) Transport infrastructure should allow seamless mobility and accessibility for all users, including persons with disabilities and older persons. In principle, the location of all recharging and refuelling stations as well as the recharging and refuelling stations themselves should be designed in such a way that they can be used by as much of the public as possibleaccessible and user-friendly for all public, in particular by older persons, persons with reduced mobility and persons with disabilities. This should include for example providing sufficient space around the parking lot, ensuring that the recharging station is not installed on a kerbed surface, ensuring that the buttons or screen of the recharging station are at an appropriate height and the weight of the recharging and refuelling cables is such that persons with limited strength can handle them with ease. In addition the user interface of the related recharging stations should be accessible. In that sense, the accessibility requirements in Annexes I and III to Directive 2019/88257 should be applicable to recharging and refuelling infrastructure. _________________ 57 Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services (OJ L 151, 7.6.2019, p. 70).
Amendment 311 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) These targets should take into account the types of vessels served and their respective traffic volumes. Maritime ports with low traffic volumes of certain ship categories, should be exempted from the mandatory requirements for the corresponding ship categories based on a minimum level of traffic volume, so as to avoid underused capacity being installed. Similarly, the mandatory targets should not aim to target maximum demand, but a sufficiently high volume, in order to avoid underused capacity and to take account of port operational characteristics. Maritime transport is an important link for the cohesion and economic development of islands and the outermost regions in the Union. Energy production capacity in these islands and outermost regions may not always be sufficient to account for the power demand required to support the provision of shore- side electricity supply. In such a case islands and the outermost regions should be exempted from this requirement unless and until such an electrical connection with the mainland has been completed or there is a sufficient locally generated capacity from clean energy sources.
Amendment 342 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37
Recital 37
(37) In accordance with Article 3 of Directive 2014/94/EU, Member States have established national policy frameworks outlining their plans and objectives to ensure that those objectives would be met. Both the assessment of the national policy framework and the evaluation of Directive 2014/94/EU have highlighted the need for higher ambition and a better coordinated approach across Member States in view of the expected acceleration in the uptake of alternative fuel vehicles, in particular of electric vehicles. Furthermore, alternatives to fossil fuel will be needed in all transport modes to meet the ambitions of the European Green Deal. The existing National Policy Frameworks should be revised to clearly describe how the much greater need for publicly accessible recharging and refuelling infrastructure as expressed in the mandatory targets is going to be met by the Member States. The national policy frameworks should be based on territorial analysis, identifying the different needs and taking into account, when relevant, existing local and regional deployment plans of refuelling and recharging infrastructure. Particular attention should be paid to rural areas in order to ensure their closest accessibility to these refuelling and recharging infrastructures based on an ex-ante evaluation of their corresponding needs focused on i.e. users' demand, socioeconomic local activities, mobility basic needs... Furthermore, the revised frameworks should equally address all transport modes including those for which no mandatory deployment targets exists, of particular importance for rural areas too.
Amendment 359 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41
Recital 41
(41) Member States should make use of a wide range of regulatory and non- regulatory incentives and measures to reach the mandatory targets and implement their national policy frameworks, in close cooperation with regional and local authorities, as well as private sector actors, who should play a key role in supporting the development of alternative fuels infrastructure.
Amendment 366 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41 b (new)
Recital 41 b (new)
(41 b) Rural areas, which are home to 30.6% of the EU, are more exposed to suffer, particularly those that are sparsely populated, from lack of transport-related infrastructure, including for alternative fuels, and quality and frequent transport services. This has a direct impact on rural regions' connectivity and socioeconomic development. In order to promote the transition to smart and sustainable mobility as well in rural areas, Member States and regional and local authorities, should cooperate to implement a coherent plan of deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure in these territories, in line with their national policy frameworks, which should comply with the accessibility and availability needs of these territories. Member States and regional and local authorities should make use of the European, national and regional funds at their disposal for this matter.
Amendment 874 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 3
3. Where the maritime port of the TEN-T core network and the TEN-T comprehensive network is located on an island or in an outermost region as referred to in Article 349 TFEU, which is not connected directly to the electricity grid, paragraph 1 shall not apply, until such a connection has been completed or there is a sufficient locally generated capacity from clean energy sources.
Amendment 973 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point i a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point i a (new)
(i a) measures to guarantee accessibility of all territories to refuelling and recharging infrastructure, paying particular attention to rural areas to ensure their closest accessibility. Targeted policies and measures should be considered and implemented for these territories by Member States.