Activities of Silvia-Adriana ȚICĂU related to 2008/0147(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Charging of heavy goods vehicles (debate)
Amendments (29)
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The promotion of sustainable transport is a key element of the common transport policy. To this end, the negative impacts of transport, in particular congestion, which impedes mobility, pollution, which creates health and environmental damage, and its contribution to climate change must be reduced. Moreover environmental protection requirements must be integrated into the definition and implementation of other Community policies, including the common transport policy. The priorities of environmental protection, social and economic cohesion objectives and EU business competitiveness objectives should also be reconciled in a balanced way as part of the Lisbon Strategy for growth and employment.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) To optimise the transport system accordingly, the common transport policy must use a variety of instruments to improve the transport infrastructure and technologies and enable a more efficient management of transport demand. This calls for further recourse to the "user pays" principle and the development of the "polluter pays" principle in the transport sectoran assessment of the impact of any new political initiative, in accordance with the provisions of the Lisbon Strategy and the Strategy for sustainable development. Any decision related to the mandatory principle applicable in the future to the provisions of this Directive should be based solely on an in-depth cost-benefit analysis that takes into account the overall burden on goods transport by road.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) The internalisation of external transport costs occurs not only through user charges but also through the development of infrastructures with a view to providing real alternatives to the most polluting forms of transport, via the promotion of research and technological advances and the harmonisation of standards at EU level.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 21 a (new)
Recital 21 a (new)
(21a) It is necessary to examine the present state of affairs in certain Member States under which VAT is levied on the vignette or road tax and the harmonisation of the relevant fiscal regime, with a view to not creating artificial barriers to the free movement of goods and avoiding double taxation.
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 23 a (new)
Recital 23 a (new)
(23a) Road congestion is the outcome of existing transport infrastructures' quality and capacity levels and the volume of traffic of both private cars and vehicles transporting persons and goods; it is therefore necessary for Member States to invest in transport infrastructures so as to minimise the external costs generated by them.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 23 b (new)
Recital 23 b (new)
(23b) Member States may use the TEN-T budget and the Structural Funds in order to improve transport infrastructures with a view to reducing the external costs of transport in general and implement electronic means of collecting the charges arising from the provisions of this Directive.
Amendment 40 #
Council position – amending act
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) In order to promote the interoperability of tolling arrangements, and subject to compliance with certain conditions, two or more Member States should be permitted to cooperate in introducing common systems of tollsThe European Commission should take all necessary measures to ensure the introduction of a European electronic road toll service throughout the whole of the European Union, in accordance with Decision 2009/750/EC, by 31 December 2010.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) In accordance with the transport policy objectives of this Directive, the additional revenue generated from an external cost charge should be used forto improve the transport sector as a whole, namely projects with a broad Community interest, and designed to promote sustainable mobility at largewith the objective of reducing external costs. Such projects should therefore relate to facilitating efficient pricing, reducing road transport pollution at source, mitigating its effects, improving CO2 and energy performance of vehicles, and developing alternative and sustainable infrastructure for transport users. It includes, for example, research and development on cleaner vehicles, repair, maintenance and improvement works on existing infrastructure, developing new infrastructure and the implementation of the transport part of the action plans under Council Directive 96/62/EC of 27 September 1996 on ambient air quality assessment and management and Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002 relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise , which may comprise measures to mitigate traffic-based noise and air pollution around large infrastructure and in agglomerations. Earmarking this revenue does not release Member States from the obligation laid down in Article 88(3) of the Treaty to notify the Commission of certain national measures, nor does it prejudge the outcome of any procedures initiated under Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty.
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 29 a (new)
Recital 29 a (new)
(29a) Complementary measures should boost the effects of pricing systems in order to face climate change challenges and improve the environmental performance of the transport system, in particular with regard to the pursuit of EU transport policy goals: a more balanced modal shift, greater efficiency of the logistic performance of road transport, reduction of energy consumption and emissions by the road transport sector.
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The promotion of sustainable transport is a key element of the common transport policy. To this end, the negative impacts of transport, in particular congestion, which impedes mobility, pollution, which creates health and environmental damage, and its contribution to climate change must be reduced. Moreover environmental protection requirements must be integrated into the definition and implementation of other Community policies, including the common transport policy. The priorities of environmental protection, social and economic cohesion objectives and European business competitiveness objectives should also be reconciled in a balanced way as part of the Lisbon Strategy for growth and employment.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
(4a) Considers that the internalisation of external transport costs, especially those related to the environment, should be gradually phased in, so as not to generate excessive costs which might adversely affect the competitiveness of any particular mode of transport.
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 7a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7a – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 7a – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The application of these regulatory charges to fight congestion in densely populated areas or in sensitive areas shall not have any discriminatory effects on transit traffic.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7b – paragraph 2
Article 7b – paragraph 2
(2) The external cost charge shall be related to the cost of climate change and of traffic-based air pollution, the cost of traffic-based noise pollution, or both. On road sections subject to congestion the external cost charge may also include the cost of congestion during the periods when these road sections are usually congested.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) To optimise the transport system accordingly, the common transport policy must use a variety of instruments to improve the transport infrastructure and technologies and enable a more efficient management of transport demand. This calls for further recourse to the “user pays” principle and the development of the “polluter pays” principle in the transport sectoran assessment of the impact of any new political initiative, in accordance with the provisions of the Lisbon Strategy and the Strategy for sustainable development. Any decision related to the mandatory principle applicable in the future to the provisions of this Directive should be taken only based on an in-depth cost-benefit analysis that takes into account the overall burden on goods transport by road.
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7i – paragraph 5
Article 7i – paragraph 5
(5) However, for a transitional period until 31 December 201320 inclusive, an external cost charge may be levied and collected by means of an existing tolling arrangement. In such a case, the Member State concerned shall notify the Commission of a plan to change by 31 December 201320 at the latest to a system which complies with the requirements of paragraph 4.
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. A Member State in which an external cost charge is levied shall ensure that the revenue generated by the charge is earmarked for measures aimed at facilitating efficient pricing, reducing road transport pollution at source, mitigating its effects, improving CO2 and energy performance of vehicles, and developing alternative infrastructure for transport userexisting infrastructure, developing traffic management systems aimed at optimising the use of existing infrastructure and developing a balanced transport infrastructure network, according to needs with the objective of reducing external costs.
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 5
Article 1 – point 5
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 9b
Article 9b
The Commission shall facilitate dialogue and the exchange of technical know-how between Member States in relation to the implementation of this Directive and in particular the Annexes. It shall support Member States' efforts to carry out, by 31 July 2010 and via the TEN-T budget, national studies on the impact of introducing this Directive's binding provisions on internalising external costs. The Commission shall adapt Annexes 0, III, IIIa and IV in the light of scientific and technical progress and Annexes I and II in the light of inflation. Those measures designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 9c (3).
Amendment 68 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7 g – paragraph 3 – point (d)
Article 7 g – paragraph 3 – point (d)
(d) the peak periods during which the higher infrastructure charges are levied for the purpose of reducing congestion do not exceed fiveour hours per day.
Amendment 69 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7 g – paragraph 4
Article 7 g – paragraph 4
4. The variations referred to in paragraphs 1 and 3 are not designed to generate additional toll revenue. Any unintended increase in revenue shall be counterbalanced by changes to the structure of the variation which must be implemented within two yearhree months from the end of the accounting year in which the additional revenue is generated.
Amendment 84 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Member States shall determine the use of revenues generated by this Directive. The revenues generated from external-cost charges, or the equivalent in financial value of these revenues, shouldall be used only to benefit the road transport sector, to make transporit more sustainable and optimise the entire road transport system, including the following:
Amendment 86 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point (g a) (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point (g a) (new)
(ga) Provision of an adequate number of secure parking areas.
Amendment 87 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
(1) By …*, and every fourthree years thereafter, Member States which levy an external-cost charge and/or an infrastructure charge shall draw up a report on tolls, including concession tolls, levied on their territory and shall forward it to the Commission which shall make it available to the other Member States. That report may exclude tolling arrangements that were already in place on 10 June 2008 and which do not include external-cost charges, as long as those arrangements remain in force and provided that they are not substantially amended. That report shall comprise information on: * JO, a se introduceInsert datae: 4836 months after the entry into force of this Directive.
Amendment 90 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point (c a) (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point (c a) (new)
(ca) for each Member State individually, tolls paid by road transport operators from the Member State in question under this directive on crossing each of the Member States to which this directive applies.
Amendment 93 #
Council position – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point (a a) (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point (a a) (new)
(aa) the report shall be accompanied by a proposal to the European Parliament and the Council for a revision of this directive with a view to eliminating all administrative or tariff barriers to the free movement of goods which could distort competition on the internal market for freight transport by road;
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) In accordance with the transport policy objectives of this Directive, the additional revenue generated from an external cost charge should be used forto improve the transport sector as a whole, namely projects with a broad Community interest, and designed to promote sustainable mobility at largewith the objective of reducing external costs. Such projects should therefore relate to facilitating efficient pricing, reducing road transport pollution at source, mitigating its effects, improving CO2 and energy performance of vehicles, and developing alternative and sustainable infrastructure for transport users. It includes, for example, research and development on cleaner vehicles, repair, maintenance and improvement works on existing infrastructure, developing new infrastructure and the implementation of the transport part of the action plans under Council Directive 96/62/EC of 27 September 1996 on ambient air quality assessment and management and Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2002 relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise, which may comprise measures to mitigate traffic-based noise and air pollution around large infrastructure and in agglomerations. Earmarking this revenue does not release Member States from the obligation laid down in Article 88(3) of the Treaty to notify the Commission of certain national measures, nor does it prejudge the outcome of any procedures initiated under Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty.
Amendment 343 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7i – paragraph 5
Article 7i – paragraph 5
5. However, until 31 December 20135, an external cost charge may be levied and collected by means of an existing tolling arrangement. In such a case, the Member State concerned shall notify the Commission of its plan to switch to a system which complies with the requirements of paragraph 4 by 31 December 20135 at the latest.
Amendment 369 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. A Member State in which an external cost charge is levied shall ensure that the revenue generated by the charge is earmarked for measures aimed at facilitating efficient pricing, reducing road transport pollution at source, mitigating its effects, improving CO2 and energy performance of vehicles, and developing alternative infrastructure for transport userexisting infrastructure, developing traffic management systems aiming at optimizing the use of existing infrastructure and developing a balanced transport infrastructure network, according to needs with the objective of reducing external costs.
Amendment 388 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 5
Article 1 – point 5
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 9b
Article 9b
The Commission shall facilitate dialogue and the exchange of technical know-how between Member States in relation to the implementation of this Directive and in particular the Annexes. The Commission shall support the Member States in their performance, up to 31 July 2010, through the TEN-T budget, of national impact studies on the introduction of binding provisions on internalising the external costs arising from this directive. The Commission shall adapt Annexes 0, III, IIIa and IV in the light of scientific and technical progress and Annexes I and II in the light of inflation. Those measures designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 9c(3).