17 Amendments of Inés AYALA SENDER related to 2008/2218(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas it is necessary to strengthen the Commission’s ability to pursue the major cross-border projects, especially in the rail sector, requiring ongoing closer cooperation between the Member States involved and funding over many years, extending beyond the time-frame of the multi-annual financial framework,
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Urges the Commission to ensure that future TEN-T planning, bearing in mind the emphasis that is rightly being laid on rail freight transport, is made more efficient in terms of social and territorial cohesion, avoiding the saturation and collapse of infrastructure in already densely populated areas, and oriented more sensibly towards better structuring of the territory as a whole, taking into account the potential opportunities for the extensive areas which are sparsely populated or undergoing outright depopulation;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Agrees with the Commission that until now TEN-T priority projects and maps were mainly a composition of large and expensive national transport infrastructure projects, some of the 30 TEN-T Prior Projects not being a realistic optionand it was difficult to connect them at borders for reasons such as funding arrangements that offered little incentive, other projects becoming in the meantime - and after EU enlargement in particular - very important but missing from this list lack of leeway for the Commission to intervene and impose the Community interest and impracticable cooperation and coordination structures between Member States in the event of difficulties;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. emphasises that peripheral regions are strongly penalised by their limited access to TEN-T corridors; recommends that Member States improve local interconnections in order to minimise the costs associated with a peripheral situation; considers it necessary to strengthen the Commission’s ability to pursue the major cross-border projects requiring ongoing closer cooperation between the Member States involved and funding over many years, extending beyond the time-frame of the multi-annual financial framework;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers the reports of the TEN-T Coordinators as interesting examples for further coordination and integration of a limited choice of important projects; points out that in order to make the coordinators' work more effective, the Commission should be directly involved in the work of the inter-governmental committees, especially on cross-border projects;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. considers it vital for the EU to enter into a historic commitment to overcoming the obstacles to free movement posed by the three great emblematic mountain systems: the Alps, the Pyrenees, and the Carpathians; to that end, urges the Commission and the Member States to provide all the resources required for swifter action to make the mountains fully passable, using the necessary cross-border infrastructure;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Agrees therefore to develop a more realisticcoherent network approach with corridors reflecting the needs for intermodal connections for citizens and freight; emphasises therefore that priority must be given to rail, ports, sustainable maritime and inland waterways and their hinterland connections or intermodal nodes in infrastructure links with and within new Member States, as well as at those borders that remain an obstacle to mobility;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a.Urges the Commission to ensure that future TEN-T planning, bearing in mind the emphasis that is rightly being laid on rail freight transport, is made more efficient in terms of social and territorial cohesion, avoiding the saturation and collapse of infrastructure in densely populated areas and ensuing complaints from the public, and oriented more sensibly towards better links in the territory as a whole, strengthening the synergies between the centre and the periphery, more populated areas and extensive areas which are sparsely populated or undergoing outright depopulation;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take into account new developments, such as enlargement and new, the neighbouring countrieshood policy of a Europe which is increasingly open to both the East and the Mediterranean, the global financial crisis and demographic change as relevant factors for European transport infrastructure policy;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Emphasises the need to incorporate both the objectives of the Lisbon Strategy and those of the Recovery Plan in the development of TEN-T policies, given the key importance of the mobility, accessibility and logistics thereof for EU competitiveness, and to improve territorial cohesion;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and Member States to integrate green corridors, rail freight networks, the different but complementary needs of passenger and goods transport and, in this context, the Trans European Rail Freight Network (TERFN), European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) corridors, maritime "highways", such as short sea shipping, existing waterways with ample square capacity, sea, river and dry ports, airports and logistics platforms, and urban mobility nodes, into an intermodal TEN-T concept, based on planned actions in favour of more environmentally friendly, less oil consuming and safer modes;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Focuses on the need to boost the efficiency of existing infrastructure within TEN-T projects in the short term, in order to make the corridors more viable and efficient and without simply waiting for, in anticipation of the long term realisation of mega-projects within these corridors;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Supports the Green Paper's "structural option C for TEN-T shape", i.e. a dual layer, consisting of a comprehensive network, based on the current TEN-T maps, and an intermodal "core network", still to be defined and with rail, sustainable waterways and ports and their connection with logistical centres as priorities;
Amendment 90 #
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, enhanced competitiveness, promotion of the single market, environmental sustainability, transparency for taxpayers and citizen's involvement (partnership principle); in this respect, emphasises the importance of developing public/private partnerships to finance TEN-T projects and the need to come up with flexible solutions for the problems that arise in works of this scale (geographical and technical difficulties, public opposition, etc.);
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Asks the Commission to draw up a list and/or map of regional trans-border rail- connections, which have been dismantled or abandoned, and to launch a plan containing recommendations and possible measures on the viability of revitalising these rail connections and thus contributing to an European Union without borders and regional internal markets, favouring especially those who are interconnecting with TEN-T;