Activities of Eva LICHTENBERGER related to 2008/2240(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures - Greening of transport and internalisation of external costs (continuation of debate)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (19)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Commission has convincingly described the public health nuisance caused by rail noise, butand, by way of a cornerstone to its rail noise abatement initiative, is merely setting out a requirementshould boost the action plan for freight wagons to be retrofitted with low- noise brakes,
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that efficient and sustainable mobility greatlycan benefits personal quality of life, growth and employment in the EU, trade; notes that the Göteborg Summit underlined the necessity of decoupling economic growth from an increase in transport volumes, without jeopardising trade between Member States and with non-EU countries, and or the firms and employees involved directly or indirectly in the transport sector;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises that motorised mobility also entails adverse consequences for climate change, oil dependency, the natural environment, and quality of life and health for people, and therefore maintains that European transport policy - without disregardingbalanced with the legitimate interests of individuals and industry where mobility is concerned - should continue, according to the Treaty, intensify its efforts to integrate sustainable development and environmental legislation into the transport sector, to aim for greening so as to cancel outavoid, or at any rate reduce, motorised mobility and the harmful effects of transport;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
5. Regretcognises that the Commission has failstarted to produce a plan tofor green transport, that is to say, every transport sector, and has instead,ing transport and has
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point a
Paragraph 5 – point a
a) adopting a piecemeal approach, submittedsubmitted a first basic set of guidelines for estimating the external costs of transport and for their internalisation in individual sectors,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b
Paragraph 5 – point b
b) again opting for a partial solution, confined its specific proposals to higher road tolls for heavy goods vehicles, and even those would apply only in Member States that so wished,opted for a stepwise solution, starting with road tolls for heavy goods vehicles and,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point c
Paragraph 5 – point c
c) as regards rail noise abatement, merely listed a range of options and future measures;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and the Council to take the TERM-reports of the European Environment Agency (EEA) on 'Environmental Indicators for the Transport Sector' as a basis for the present and future 'greening transport policy';
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Reminds the Commission that it promised to move the signed Transport Protocol of the Alpine Convention on its way to its earliest possible ratification;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that in its communication on the strategy for the internalisation of external costs, the Commission has failed toconfirmed results from several former studies on this issue; believes that in its Manual on Internalisation of external Transport Costs, the Commission has fulfilled the obligation, by providing a first scientific and basic response, 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, transparent, and comprehensible model for the assessment of marginal minima of average external costs as a whole, given that it has not analysed the impacts on every mode of transport and, at the practical level, has not produced any basis for a strategy for the stepwise implementation of the model for all modes, starting with the most polluting, such as road and air transport;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes with dismay that the Commission communication did not make any substantivmade statements regarding the calculation of external costs for the different modes of transport, but merely referred to ain particular by using the ‘Handbook on estimation of external costs in the transport sector’, which, given the disparate nature of its contributions, is more likely to cause confusion than to and the ‘technical annex to the Strategy’ which shed light on unansweredmany questions;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. DeplorWelcomes the fact that the Commission has not so much as attempted in its communication to gauge, assess, and describeassess the impact that its proposed method for applying the 'polluter pays principle' and internalising external costs might have on restoring fair competition among the various modes of transport;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls 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 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Agrees withEncourages the Commission thato, 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 topropose the internaliseation of external costs where civil aviation, use of airspace 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 the task deriving from Article 11, third paragraph, of the 2006 Eurovignette Directive by submitting as well as introduce kerosene taxation and VAT on cross-border EU flight tickets; calls on the Commission, however, to produce specific proposals for waterborne transport and review the rail charging Directive, a ccomprehensive plan for calculating and charging external costs and assessing their impact on the basis of a comprehensible modelrding to the principles of fair intermodal competition;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Regrets that in its communication onUrges the Commission, the Council, the Member States, and the Railway Companies to boost rail noise abatement measures for the existing fleet, the Commission has failed to responding in the manner required by the urgent need to reduce the noise nuisance, from freight wagons in particular, forin favour of persons living by the side of railway lines, given that it has not proposed any measures producing effects in the short term; calls for the inclusion of budgetary measures that are efficient in the short term, particularly for such actions, that reduce noise at the source, and therefore can lead to less public infrastructure investments for noise protection (e.g. financing of acoustic walls);