3 Amendments of Anja WEISGERBER related to 2008/2041(INI)
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that the Commission recommends almost exclusively measures, such as setting up pedestrian areas or introducing speed limits, which have no cross-border impact and which are subject to the subsidiarity principle, so that the European Union has no competence in this respect.
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Points out that the Treaty of Lisbon and the protocol on services of general interest attached to it recognise the right of local authorities to self-government, and that this agreement is already being respected by the European institutions in the period prior to the formal entry into force of the Treaty;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Considers that, in the light of the major regional differences in the quality of transport in Europe, it would be advisable to make non-binding guidelines (know-how) available to all local authorities via the internet; points out, however, that these guidelines should imply no obligations which would become binding for towns and cities in the framework of a subsequent review of the aims of the Green Paper by the Commission;