Activities of Paolo COSTA 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)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Supports the Commission in putting forward scientifically coherent and equitable justifications for charging for the external costs of each mode of transport based on marginal social cost pricing, in line with the White Paper on Transport of 2001;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is disappoRecognises the role of the ‘Polluter Pays Principle’ as enshrinted in addition that in its communication the Commission, narrowing down this ‘pragmatic approach’ still further, has reduced it to the ‘polluter/user pays’ principle and that, as regards the contributions - broken down by Member State -the Treaty, and that this principle is appropriately taken account of in the Commission’s proposal. Notes that the approach of the Commission takes into account the contribution towards costs already made by individual modes of transport in the form of general taxation, vehicle and oil taxes, and road tolls to balance out real infrastructure building and maintenance costs and, moreover, external costs, it has not even listed them, let alone set them off against the costs incurred;
Amendment 69 #
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 tofor heavy goods vehicles, but is again leaving enforcement to the Member States’ discretion and further notes that Member States are already free to charge passenger cars as they see fit;