2 Amendments of Brigitte FOURÉ related to 2008/2240(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises that mobility also entails adverse consequences for the natural environment and for people, and therefore maintains that European transport policy – without disregarding the legitimate interests of individuals and industry where mobility is concerned – should continue to aim for greening so as to cancel out, or at any rate reduce, the harmful effects of transport, in line with the Union's objectives on combating global warming up to 2020;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes with astonishment that the Commission is behaving inconsistently on several counts in that, on the one hand, it maintains that the internalisation of external costs should also apply to cars, but does not even supply related calculations, preferring instead to give Member States a completely free choice, and, secondly, it sees an essential need for European legislation enabling external costs to be charged to heavy goods vehicles, but is again leaving enforcement to the Member States’ discretion; therefore asks the Commission to publish a methodology for internalising the external costs of individual vehicles in order to provide the Member States with guidelines in compliance with the principle of subsidiarity;