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Activities of Inés AYALA SENDER 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)
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2008/2240(INI)

Amendments (7)

Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas internalisation must be integrated into a more comprehensive policy to promote co-modality and a sustainable transport system and this policy must also include the promotion of research, funding of infrastructure, opening of markets and standardisation; whereas, nevertheless, these price signals will not in themselves be sufficient to change the behaviour of users unless the necessary alternatives are available to them (cleaner cars, alternative forms of transport, etc.),
2008/11/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that mobility greatly benefits personal quality of life, growth and employment in the EU, socio-economic and territorial cohesion, trade with non- EU countries, and the firms and employees involved directly or indirectly in the transport sector and logistics;
2008/11/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
5. Regrets that the Commission has failed to produce an integrated plan to green transport, that is to say, every transport sector, and has instead,
2008/11/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b
(b) again opting for a partial solution, confined its specific proposals for immediate application to higher road tolls for heavy goods vehicles, and even these would apply only in Member States that so wished, and,
2008/11/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission, therefore, where every mode of transport is concerned, to provide for the measures and instruments required to make transport greener, taking into account the measures already implemented in the various transport sectors; with reference to those proposals, to conduct scientifically sound assessments of the impact of the individual measures and their competition implications in terms of modes; and, proceeding from that basis, to submit a masn integraterd plan for the greening of transport, together with specific legislative proposals;
2008/11/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Also deplores the fact that the Commission has not proposed measures to mitigate the effects of increased remoteness arising from EU enlargement and has not made any forecasts regarding the consequences of its application, in particular in those Member States with geographical barriers and for those which do not as yet have multimodal alternatives; calls, therefore, on the Commission to remedy these shortcomings as part of the forthcoming review of the trans-European transport networks (TENs);
2008/11/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Encourages the Commission, to this end, to submit a supplementary proposal for multimodal mobility corridors ('green corridors') as part of the review of the TENs, offsetting the burdens imposed by the present proposal by offering accessibility and mobility without obstacles;
2008/11/20
Committee: TRAN