Activities of Reinhard RACK related to 2008/2240(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures - Greening of transport and internalisation of external costs (continuation of debate)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission communication on greening transport as a first tentative partial step towards a more comprehensive approach making for environment-friendlier transport in its many and varied modes;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
5. RegretUnderstands that the Commission has failed to produce a plan to green transport, that is to say, every transport sector, and has instead a) adopting a piecemeal approach, submitted guidelines for estimatproduced specific proposals for some of the key problem areas ing the external costs of transport and for their internalisation in individual sectors, b) again opting for a partial solution, confined its specific proposals to higher road tolls for heavy goods vehicles, and even these would apply only in Member States that so wished, and c) as regards rail noise abatement, merely listed a range of options and future measuresgreening of transport, in order to ensure that demands for the full regulation of all internalisation measures do not result in the shelving of any improvement to the status quo;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes with dismayRecognises that the Commission communication did not make any substantive statements regarding's efforts, in its handbook on the calculation of external costs forin the different modes of transport, but merely referred to a ‘Handbook on estimtransport sector, are an important step towards producing calculations on the internalisation of external costs ion the transport sector’, which, given the disparate nature of its contributions, is more likely to cause confusion than to shed light on unanswered questiona scientifically sound basis;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is disappointed in additexpects the Commission, that in its communication the Commission, narrowing downerefore, to take further steps to develop this ‘pragmatic approach’ still further, has reduced it to the ‘polluter/user pays’ principle and that, as regards the contributions – broken down by Member State – already made by individual, recognise the contributions made to date by the various modes of transport in the form of general taxation, vehicle and oil taxes, and road tolls to balance out real infrastructure building and maintenance costs and, moreover, external costs, it has not even listed them, let alone set them off against the costs incurred view this as the point of departure for future work;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes with astonishment that the Commission is behaving inconsistently on several counts in that, on the one hand, it maintains that the internalisation of external costs should also apply to cars, but does not even supply related calculations, preferring instead to give Member States a completely free choice, and, secondly, it sees an essential need for European legislation enabling external costs to brecognises and supports the sensible step-by-step approach adopted by the Commission to the internalisation of external costs and is convinced that this approach is beneficial for future regulation in this field; also supports the Commission's intention to initially abide by the principle of freedom of choice for the Member States as regards the implementation of the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 1999/62/EC on the charged toing of heavy goods vehicles, but is again leaving enforcement to the Member States’ discretion for the use of certain infrastructures (COM(2008)0436);