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Activities of Gheorghe FALCĂ related to 2021/2136(DEC)

Opinions (1)

OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Railways for the financial year 2020
2022/01/17
Committee: TRAN
Dossiers: 2021/2136(DEC)
Documents: PDF(145 KB) DOC(67 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Gheorghe FALCĂ', 'mepid': 197649}]

Amendments (8)

Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Salutes the efforts of the agency to tackle the effect of the Covid-19 crisis for the railway sector, in particular by drafting guidance documents and EU Covid-19 roadmaps for public transport by rail;
2021/11/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Salutes that the Agency did good use of the funds made available by cancellations of missions abroad to ensure the continuity of its tasks; regrets however the budget constraints under which the Agency has to operate;
2021/11/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Salutes the Agency’s effective maintenance of the One-Stop Shop (OSS) and the advancements made to develop ERTMS long-term evolution, through for instance the issuance of its ERTMS Opinion service pack 3 on the handling of change requests;
2021/11/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6 d. Notes that the Management Board of the Agency strongly recommends to the Budget Authority to dedicate sufficient resources to the EU, Agency for Railways, in line with the expected prioritisation of tasks; supports this request, in particular when it comes to the Human resources necessary to implement the 4th Railway package;
2021/11/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 17 #
6 e. Welcomes the Agency’s work on establishing a multi-annual planning for the revision of the complete Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI) package by 2022;
2021/11/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6 f. Notes that 2020 was an important milestone for the 4th Railway Package implementation, with the transition milestone of 16 June 2020 finally moved to the end of October 2020, marking the moment by which all Member States have transposed the technical pillar;
2021/11/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)
6 g. Highlights the European, cross- border dimension of rail that brings citizens closer together, allows them to explore the Union in all its diversity, fosters socio-economic and territorial cohesion and contributes to integrate the Union internal market, whilst promoting the completion of the TEN-T, ending bottlenecks mainly in cross-border areas, and thus make transport more interoperable by offering people and goods comprehensive solutions; and therefore highlights the need to turn the Union patchwork of national rail networks into a truly European network, especially by supporting regional cross- border rail connectivity EU wide;
2021/11/26
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 h (new)
6 h. Calls for the expansion of high- speed rail lines in the main rail freight corridors and the timely completion of the TEN-T core network by 2030 and closure of remaining missing links in cross- border infrastructure;
2021/11/26
Committee: TRAN