Activities of Saïd EL KHADRAOUI related to 2009/2096(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
A sustainable future for transport (debate)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph - 1a (new)
Paragraph - 1a (new)
-1a. Is convinced of the imperative need for a clear and coherent vision of the future of transport as a sector at the core of the single market, guaranteeing free movement of persons and goods and ensuring territorial cohesion throughout Europe. While continuing to generate a significant part of Europe’s sustainable growth and competitiveness, the transport sector must develop within consistently high social and environmental standards;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is convinced that population growth, in particular in cities, will give rise to challenges for transport in terms of safety and capacity, and that the basic right to mobility and the applicability of this right are crucial in this regard and that the transport safety must be priority in ensuring sustainable mobility; stresses that, in this context, multimodal transport chains and collective transport, inter alia, are the way ahead for urban areas;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1a (new)
Paragraph 1a (new)
1a. In the light of current and upcoming challenges faced by European cities, such as increasing congestion and pollution linked to the urbanization trend in Europe, a strategy for the future of transport should be promoting a modal shift from modes responsible for pollution and congestion, towards more sustainable modes of transport, including soft modes (cycling and walking) in urban areas; this approach can be combined with comodality when it comes to the rest of the transport network;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that decarbonising transport is one of the main challenges of future EU transport policy and that all available, sustainable means should be used in order to achieve this, such as an energy mix, price formation measures and internalising external costs of all modes of transport, provided that the ensuing revenue is used to improve the sustainability of mobility; underlines that, to this end, the priority development of financial incentives, ruling out any distortions of competition in the process, should be preferred to the imposition of sanctions;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Finds that the development of passenger and freight transport ais a whole raises the issue not of the transfer of traffic but rather of the effective use of the various modes of transport, and that the goal of European transport policy should therefore be effective comodalitylargely dependent on the effective use of the various modes of transport, with emphasis on the most sustainable modes. Together with effective comodality, advancing a shift towards the most sustainable modes constitutes the prime goal of European transport policy. The most optimal combination of transport alternatives will depend on interoperability both within different transport modes, and among them, making for sustainable transport chains and modal choices. This efficiency must be closely connected with the objective of decarbonising transport;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that effective comodality should be measured not only in terms of cost- effectiveness but also according to criteria of environmental protection, social and employment conditions and, safety, with attention also being paid to the different possibilities and starting positions of the different modes of transport on the one hand and of the countries and regions on the other and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Finds that transport plays an essential role in completing the European Single Market and the freedom of movement of people and goods, and that regulated market opening should be achieved, primarily in rail transport; this complete market opening should be accompanied by measures safeguarding the quality of public services and other measures aimed at avoiding distortions of competition, inter alia in the social, fiscal and environmental fields;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that the imperative goal of completing the internal market can not be reached without better involvement of stakeholders and strengthened social dialogue at European level;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines that transport impacts on social, health and security policy and that, in the context of creating a single transport area, employment conditions and education and training must be harmonised andt a high level and continually improved; stresses that the creation of, inter alia, European training centres and EU centres of excellence in the relevant Member States can contribute to promoting the quality of training and the status of transport sector employees, as well as to the mutual recognition of training courses;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is of the view that technical interoperability, European certification and mutual recognition are essential elements of an effectively functioning single market, and that the enforcement of these should figure more prominently in the tasks of the various agencies; underlines that all the Agencies should strive for, and shortly attain, a similarly high level of responsibility and competence; encourages in particular the development of the full potential of the European Railway Agency, including progressively assuming responsibility for certifying all new rolling stock and railway infrastructure, and for regular audits of national safety authorities or equivalent bodies in the Member States, as laid down in Directive 2004/49/EC of 29 April 2004;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Emphasises that intelligent systems in transport organisation, such as Galileo and ITS, need support in terms of research as well as in their application, since they lead to considerable environmental improvements due to a reduction in exhaust gases and traffic noise, improve safety by creating solutions to infrastructure bottlenecks and, not least, result in increased energy independence; calls on the Member States to ensure swift implementation of ITS applications, so as to extend their benefits to all citizens across the Union;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 introductory part
Paragraph 20 introductory part
20. Calls for compliance with clearer, more measurable targets to be achieved in 2020 with reference to 2010, and therefore proposes the following:
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 - indent 1
Paragraph 20 - indent 1
- a 450% reduction in deaths and serious injuries on the roads from 2010 to 2020,
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 - indent 4
Paragraph 20 - indent 4
- a 20% reduction in the electricity used by rail vehicles compared with 2010target for use of energy from renewable sources by rail vehicles, and a 40% reduction in diesel use in the rail sector, to be achieved through targeted investments in rail infrastructure electrification,
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 - indent 6
Paragraph 20 - indent 6
-a 230% reduction in pollution caused by aircraft throughout EU airspace by 2020, with growth of air transport being carbon- neutral,
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 - indent 7
Paragraph 20 - indent 7
- a 30% growth in financial support for the optimisation and, where needed, creation of multimodal connections (platforms) forto and from sea and inland waterway transports, and a 20% increase in the number of such platforms, by 2020in view of facilitating effective and sustainable comodality, with rail in particular,