5 Amendments of Inés AYALA SENDER related to 2010/2211(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that transport underpins Europe'’s economic and social activity, that the transport sector represents 4.6% of the European Union's GDP, while employing 9.2 million individuals, and that, as well as allowing communication between individuals and communities and providing the network upon which the movement of goods in the single market ultimately depends, the sector is significant in terms of its potential contribution to ensuring social, economic and territorial cohesion, boosting employment and trade and enhancing the tourism sector, together with the contribution an efficient and reliable transport system can make to reduced carbon emissions, pollution and congestion;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes the importance of the transport sector in EU industrial policy, both in terms of its contribution to gross domestic product and in terms of jobs. Considers the European Union, moreover, to be the industrial leader in transport technology (aeronautics industry, high-speed rail travel, intelligent transport management systems, advanced control, safety and interoperability systems, ERMTS, SESAR, safe and sustainable infrastructure engineering, etc.), and that the EU should therefore adopt a financial framework enabling it to maintain and strengthen its leadership in that industrial sector. Believes that the next financing period should give the EU transport sector the opportunity to consolidate its leadership in green, safe and intelligent technologies that contribute to further economic development and greater economic and social cohesion;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Insists that, viewed particularly from a financial efficiency standpoint, the need to ensure real added value from EU budgetary expenditure on transport policy items is paramount; notes that, while duplication or displacement of investment and expenditure better undertaken at national and regional level must be avoided, it is essential not to miss the opportunities for facilitating sustainable growth which the added value of EU transport expenditure alone can provide and to prevent inefficiencies;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. ERMTS Notes the importance of the ERMTS project for railway interoperability and making the modal shift a reality. Believes that the rolling-out of the ERMTS has, like many other transport infrastructure projects, recently been suffering the consequences of the economic recession, in terms of the rate and volume of public sector investment. Acknowledges the European dimension and added value of the project, and therefore calls for the ERMTS, and in particular its cross-border sections, to be made an EU budgetary priority in the coming years;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. SESAR Believes the SESAR Programme to be vital to the completion of the Single European Sky and to managing the increase in capacity, reducing the environmental impact of air transport and cutting costs in that sector. Considers it necessary for a sufficient financial commitment to be made to that sector to ensure the completion of the Single European Sky;