3 Amendments of Roberts ZĪLE related to 2008/0147(COD)
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Time-based user charges levied on a daily, weekly, monthly or annual basis should not discriminate against occasional users, since a high proportion of such users are likely to be non-national hauliers. A more detailed ratio between daily, weekly, monthly and annual rates should therefore be fixed. For reasons of efficiency and fairness, time-based user charges should be considered as a transitional instrument for charging of infrastructure. A phasing out of time-based charging systems should therefore be taken into consideration at the latest by 2013. The Member States with EU land external borders with third countries may derogate from this provision and continue to apply time-based charging systems after 2013 in order to ensure that charges applied to the vehicles queuing on the border-crossing points are of equal value to (correspond with) the environment pollution actually caused.
Amendment 144 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) A comprehensive assessment of the experience acquired in those Member States which apply an infrastructure and/or an external cost charge in accordance with this Directive should be sent in due time by the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council. This assessment should also include an analysis of progress in the strategy to fight climate change, including in defining a common fuel tax element related to climate change in Council Directive 2003/96/EC of 27 October 2003 restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity, including of the fuel used by heavy goods vehicles. In the light of this progress, the question of carbon dioxide eThis assessment should also include a progress report on the internalisation process for all modes of transport. In the light of this comprehensive assessment, the Commissions should be included and an analysis of any other further appropriate actions should be continuedpropose a further revision of Directive 1999/62/EC, also taking into account further externalities to be included, the possibility to impose a mandatory charging system and the possibility to phase out time-based charging systems while providing a derogation for the Member States with EU land external borders with third countries to continue to apply time-based charging systems.
Amendment 422 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 6
Article 1 – point 6
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(da) the technical and economic feasibility of gradual abolishing time-based charging systems with a derogation for the Member States with the EU land external borders with third countries to continue to apply time-based charging systems.