8 Amendments of Jörg LEICHTFRIED related to 2008/2218(INI)
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes with approval that environmentally-friendly forms of transport receive a disproportionately large share of consideration in the list of priority projects; calls on the Commission in this connection to ensure that this proportionality is preserved in future when projects are implemented;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Asks the Commission to make a proposal in view of preventing EU funds (via TEN-T programmes, Cohesion/Regional programmes, Research programmes, Marco Polo, etc.) to be allocated to any road project whose primary effect would be to facilitate medium- and long-distance road transport (i.e. over 100km); Member States would still retain their sovereign capability to decide on such projects using their own national budgets;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Asks the Commission to allow the financing of road projects only when these projects are part of a wider multimodal project, where rail, inland waterways or short sea shipping is taking care of the long-distance part and where the road sub-project is limited to the feeder / local distribution part;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Takes the view that where a road subproject of a Green Corridor Project is submitted for EU financing (under any EU programme: TEN-T, Cohesion, Regional Research, Marco Polo, etc.), it should be carefully checked that this sub- project will not at the same time unduly promote medium/long-distance road traffic of another origin-destination; as a good practice, any road subproject of an EU-financed Green Corridor project should not allow for more than 10% of the traffic on the concerned road to serve long-distance road traffic (i.e. beyond 100km);
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Urges the Commission also to include the socio-economic effects on regions and to ensure that regions are linked to the TEN-T as part of the new strategic approach to European infrastructure policy; calls for social impact assessments to this end, that should contain at least the following elements: impact on employment, income disparities between various social groups, regional development;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls, therefore, for the introduction of sustainability impact assessments along supply chains and ‘mobility chains’ as an instrument for ensuring the most suitable combination of intermodal transport and logistics solutions from the point of view of economic, environmental and social sustainability;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Reminds the Commission that EU co- financing for transport infrastructure projects by TEN-T, cohesion, regional funds and the EIB must correspond with the following criteria: economic viability, environmental and social sustainability, environmental and social procurement policy, transparency for taxpayers and citizen's and social partners’ involvement (partnership principle);
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that more research and development is needed on best and worst practice in transport infrastructure financing and its consequences on competitiveness and quantitative and qualitative employment, including PPP- experiences in this regard, as has been started already in current Commission studies;