Activities of Jörg LEICHTFRIED related to 2008/2240(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
The charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures - Greening of transport and internalisation of external costs (continuation of debate)
The charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures - Greening of transport and internalisation of external costs (continuation of debate)
Amendments (3)
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. RegretNotes that in its communication on the strategy for the internalisation of external costs, the Commission has failed to fulfilled the obligation imposed on it by Parliament and the Council, under the third paragraph of Article 11 of the Eurovignette Directive, since it has not - on its own admission - devised and put forward a generally applicable, though not always transparent, and comprehensible, model for the assessment of external costs as a whole, given that it has not analysed the impact on every mode of transport and, at the practical level, has not produced any strategy for the stepwise implementation of the model for all modes;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Deplores the fact that the Commission has not so much as attempted in its communication to gauge, assess, and describe the impact that its proposed method for internalising external costs might have on competition among the various modes of transportCalls on the Commission when putting forward further proposals to green the transport sector, to include assessments of the impact of competition between transport modes and associated social and environmental impacts, as was done with the proposal to revise the Eurovignette Directive;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Agrees withCalls on the Commission that, in view of the newly adopted arrangements to incorporate aviation into the emissions trading scheme and of the rules on airport charges, there is no need at present for proposals to internaliso take steps firstly to produce specific proposals for reducing the external costs whereof civil aviation and airports are concerned; calls on the Commission, however, to take steps without delay firstly to produce specific proposals for, rail, sea, and inland waterway transport and secondly to perform better the task deriving from Article 11, third paragraph, of the 2006 Eurovignette Directive by submitting a comprehensive planmaking more comprehensible the model for calculating and charging the external costs and assessing their impact on the basis of a comprehensible modelfor all modes of transport;