14 Amendments of Markus PIEPER related to 2015/2005(INI)
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas there is an urgent need to break the transport system’s dependence on oil without sacrificing its efficiency, increasing costs and curbing mobility;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal to provide for the internalisation of the external costs of all modes of freight and passenger transport, applying common principles and taking into account the specificity of each mode; calls for concrete measures to ensure a wider application of the ‘user pays’ and ‘polluter pays’ principles, and a level playing field between transport modes; calls for cost and environmental calculations to take full account of all existing transport taxes and levies and questions how negative the environmental impact of the transport sector would actually be, were all transport-related taxes and levies ploughed back into the transport sector and the environmental sectors affected (infrastructure maintenance, conversion to environmentally-friendly systems, investment in rail and waterways) rather than funding non-transport sectors;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls on the Member States to use innovative funding concepts that include private capital for cross-border transport infrastructure expansion and suggests for that purpose that greater use be made of transport-related taxes and levies (tolls, mineral oil tax, HGV tax) for national and international funding concepts; calls on the Member States to plough more transport-related taxes and levies back into the expansion and maintenance of transport infrastructures and in cross- border investments;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Calls for a drastic increase in the funds allocated to the Connecting Europe Facility and for more European competences in the preparation, implementation and financing of transnational transport planning and infrastructure financing;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) proposed by the Commission as part of the Juncker Investment Plan for Europe should give priority to transport infrastructure projects that deliver high societal and economic value, and target projects that promote job creation, long-term growth and competitiveness; calls for the necessary EFSI guarantees not to be provided from CEF resources, as CEF resources and associated legislative competences represent a hard-won European achievement and new competence for the Union in the transport sector;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Emphasises the importance of completing the TEN-T corridors and implementing the European Commission’s annual work plans with financial assistance from the Connecting Europe Facility; infrastructure investments by the EFSI should be in keeping with the objectives and criteria of Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 and Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Demands that the EFSI should not have any negative financial repercussions on available EU infrastructure financing and that EFSI financing should be laid down in the annual budget allocation process pending the 2016 interim review of the multiannual financial framework; stable funding of the EFSI should be found during the 2016 interim review; all budget resources used until then must be restored in full during the interim review;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Calls for profits and recoveries on the EFSI to be used to finance grants for CEF rail projects;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that public transport usage in urban areas is not clearly stated among the ten goals of the White Paper; believes that a new goal should be set of doubling public transport use in urban areas by 2030, while providing for facilities and infrastructure to facilitate door-to-door mobility of pedestrians, cyclists and elderly or handicapped people; a clear goal should be also set to double cycling by 2025; emphasises that it is not be for the EU to set binding quotas for public transport for which the national, regional and local authorities are responsible, but calls on the Commission to make greater use of its role as initiator, innovation driver and transferor of best practises in public transport and to allocate much more money for that purpose;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that public transport usage in urban areas is not clearly stated among the ten goals of the White Paper; believes that a new goal should be set of doublingthe Member States should increase public transport use in urban areas by 2030, , while providing for facilities and infrastructure to facilitate door-to-door mobility of pedestrians, cyclists and elderly or handicapped people; a clear goal should be also set to double cycling by 2025;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that powered two-wheelers (motorcycles, scooters and mopeds) play a significant role in sustainable mobility, especially in urban areas where they contribute to tackling congestion and parking problems as well as providing a solution for small logistics; insists therefore that the specific design and afferent benefits of these vehicles should be adequately taken into account and reflected in EU transport legislation and guidelines;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – indent 2
Paragraph 14 – indent 2
– the extensionreview, within the revision of Directive 2008/96/EC on road infrastructure safety management, of its fourthe extension of the main measures to other parts of the road network, including all parts of motorways and rural and urban roads, including all parts of motorways and rural and urban roads,;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Asks within the framework of the REFIT Initiative and during subsequent evaluations of European legislation for a general review of European driving licence and safety conditions and of transport-related reporting requirements with a view to achieving a substantial decrease in administrative burdens;
Amendment 532 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 – indent 1 a (new)
Paragraph 27 – indent 1 a (new)
- the abolition of time- and cost-intensive authorisation procedures, through swift adoption of the technical part of the Fourth Railway Package, if possible before the end of the Latvian Presidency,