4 Amendments of Michael CRAMER related to 2010/2211(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that transport underpins Europe's economic and social activity, that the transport sector represents 4.6% of the European Union's GDP, while employing 9.2 million individuals, and that, as well as allowing communication between individuals and communities and providing the network upon which the movement of goods in the single market ultimately depends, the sector is significant in terms of its potential contribution to ensuring social cohesion, boosting employment and trade and enhancing the tourism sector, together with the contribution an efficient transport system can make to reduced accidents, carbon emissions and oil dependency, pollution and congestion, as fixed in the EU targets and legislation;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasises in this regard the necessity to link the budgetary resources decisions with the opportunities, given by internalising external social and environmental costs in this sector and in the longer term by avoiding these external costs;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Essential savings in the EU budget as well as in the Member States budgets can be achieved by reallocation of means from infrastructure noise abatement measures (e.g. noise screens) to retrofitting vehicles by low noise techniques, such as composite brake blocks for freight wagons, where an investment of approximately 2 bn € can bring a saving up to 70 % of the original infrastructure investment costs. Similar savings are made and can be made by investing in ERTMS for both infrastructure and rolling stock, while increasing rail safety and efficiency in use of existing rail infrastructure capacity;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that only half of one percent of the TEN-T budget for the period 2007- 2013 remains unallocated but insists that the EU commitment to funding cannot be open-ended for those projects which do not progress because the necessary matching funding from national budgets is not made available before 2015; underlines that priority in financing transport projects should be put on improvement of existing rail infrastructure, by investing smaller budget amounts, which result in short or medium term benefits;