Activities of Isabelle DURANT

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – point b

~~(b) Point 5 is~~ deleted;

2013/09/26
Committee: TRAN

2013/0029(COD)

Jean-Jacob BICEP, Isabelle DURANT

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – point c

Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 3– point 31 – indent 3

- one or several railway undertakings are owned or partly owned by an infrastructure manager and where one or more of these railway undertakings use all or parts of the infrastructure managed by this infrastructure manager.

2013/09/26
Committee: TRAN

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 8 a (new)

Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 54 – paragraph 1

In Article 54 – paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: "1. In the event of disturbance to train movements caused by technical failure or accident, the infrastructure manager shall, under the direct supervision of the allocation body where appropriate, take all necessary steps to restore the situation to normal. To that end, it shall draw up a contingency plan listing the various other bodies to be informed in the event of serious incidents or serious disturbance to train movements."

2013/09/23
Committee: TRAN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 4 – point b – introductory part

(b) Paragraph 6 is ~~replac~~completed by the following:

2013/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2013/0028(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 8 – point a

Regulation (EC) No. 1370/2007
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

(a) The first subparagraph of paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: ‘2. Without prejudice to paragraph 3, the award of public service contracts by rail with the exception of other track-based modes such as metro or tramways shall comply with Article 5(3) as from 3 December 2019. All public service contracts by other track-based modes and by road must have been awarded in compliance with Article 5(3) by 3 December 2019 at the latest. During the transitional period running until 3 December 2019, Member States shall take measures to gradually comply with Article 5(3) in order to avoid serious structural problems in particular relating to transport capacity.’deleted

2013/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2013/0028(COD)

Isabelle DURANT, Eva LICHTENBERGER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 8 – point b

Regulation (EC) No. 1370/2007
Article 8 – paragraph 2 a (new)

(b) The following paragraph 2 a is inserted: '2a.Public service contracts for public passenger transport by rail directly awarded between 1 January 2013 and 2 December 2019 may continue until their expiry date. However they shall, in any event, not continue after 31 December 2022.'deleted

2013/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2013/0000(BUD)

Jan MULDER, George LYON, Angelika WERTHMANN, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Göran FÄRM, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Ashley FOX, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Bart STAES, Diane DODDS, Ulrike LUNACEK, Krzysztof LISEK, Marisa MATIAS, Lara COMI, Isabelle DURANT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Recalls the plenary decision for the Council to present a roadmap by June 2013 on the multiple seats of the EP and expects both the Committees concerned, the Secretary General and the Bureau to provide members with up-to-date figures and information on the financial and environmental impact of the multiple seat arrangement; suggests the EP's own impact assessment services examine this question also with respect to the impact of the EP's presence or partial presence on the respective communities and regions and present an assessment by June 2013 in order for these findings to be considered for the next MFF;

2013/01/10
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Göran FÄRM, Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Angelika WERTHMANN, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Helga TRÜPEL, Ulrike LUNACEK, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas Parliament's estimates for 2014 put the overall budget at EUR 1 808 144 206, with costs directly related to the geographic dispersion estimated at ~~EUR 180 000 000~~between EUR 169 million and EUR 204 million;

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Göran FÄRM, Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Angelika WERTHMANN, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Helga TRÜPEL, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK, Ulrike LUNACEK

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas since the beginning of the current legislature, both individual committees and the plenary have made several specific requests to the European Parliament's administration to provide comprehensive, detailed and reliable estimates of the additional costs relating to each of the three places of work;

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Göran FÄRM, Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Anne E. JENSEN, Jan MULDER, Nils TORVALDS, George LYON, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Helga TRÜPEL, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK, Ulrike LUNACEK

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas, the numbers provided by the Secretary-General's report to the Bureau of September 2002 are the last overall cost estimates available;

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Göran FÄRM, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Helga TRÜPEL, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK, Ulrike LUNACEK

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas the 2002 Secretary-General's estimate was confirmed by the joint working group report of the Bureau and the Committee on Budgets on Parliament's budget for 2012, when complementing the EUR 148 million estimate by the EUR 25 million of annual amortisation cost for the Strasbourg buildings that need to be taken into account since the purchase of named buildings;

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Göran FÄRM, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Angelika WERTHMANN, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Helga TRÜPEL, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK, Ulrike LUNACEK

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

~~1 Economic impact of the presence of the~~Ba. whereas the European Parliament's economic impact on the city and region of Strasbourg is low in comparison with other European bodies with permanent staff there, contributing some 223 jobs compared to the almost 3000 permanent employees of the Council of Europe an ~~Institutions in Strasbourg, CityConsult Médiascopie EDR Group, January 2011.~~d a further 4000 employees associated with Eurocorps, the European Court for Human Rights, Arte and diplomats, which translates into some 17million Euro gains from the seat of the EP at Strasbourg and some 400 million Euro for the other bodies1 that contribute regularly and permanently to the local economy;

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Göran FÄRM, Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Angelika WERTHMANN, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Helga TRÜPEL, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK, Ulrike LUNACEK

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas a reply given to the EP Budgetary Control Committee in preparation for the EP discharge for 2011 does not provide estimates on the potential savings, but only a partial estimate of the additional costs of the Strasbourg seat; whereas this EUR 55 million estimate does not include many budget lines that were included in previous and following estimates, namely the cost of data processing, equipment and movable property, travel expenses of political groups as well as any potential savings connected to time lost travelling (totalling EUR 68 million); whereas this estimate provides lower numbers on several budget lines than both previous and following estimates without providing any justification (totalling EUR 25 million);

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Göran FÄRM, Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Angelika WERTHMANN, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Helga TRÜPEL, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK, Ulrike LUNACEK

Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas none of these estimates includes the additional costs of the European Parliament's geographic dispersion on the other European Union institutions, in particular the European Commission and Council, EU member states' representations, journalists and civil society representatives;

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Göran FÄRM, Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Angelika WERTHMANN, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Helga TRÜPEL, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK, Ulrike LUNACEK

Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)

Cc. whereas ¾ of members believe that the EP should find significant structural savings and these could be found in re- evaluating the EP's geographical dispersion of places of work, illustrated by a breakdown of the costs of Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg set out in a transparent and credible format to standards expected from a major public body;

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK, Ulrike LUNACEK

Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)

Cd. whereas the historical reasons for the European bodies permanently seated in Strasbourg are well-known in respect e.g. the European Court for Human Rights and the Council of Europe, and while the European Assembly /Parliament for convenience initially used the latter's Chamber, the choice of Brussels as the seat of the European Commission and of NATO reflect the EU's aspirations for a continent progressively united in prosperity and security;

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Göran FÄRM, Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Angelika WERTHMANN, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK, Ulrike LUNACEK

Draft opinion
Recital C e (new)

Ce. whereas situating the co-legislators of the EU in a single place does not undermine the tradition of polycentrism in the EU but bears significant efficiency and transparency gains for EU citizens;

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Angelika WERTHMANN, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK, Ulrike LUNACEK

Draft opinion
Recital C f (new)

Cf. whereas, in many Member States, parliament's seat is laid down either in the Constitution or by law and whereas the European Parliament is a co-legislator of European law and can call for changes of the European treaties under article 48 of the Lisbon Treaty;

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Angelika WERTHMANN, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK, Ulrike LUNACEK

Draft opinion
Recital C g (new)

Cg. whereas during the European Year of Citizens it is appropriate to show that their voice is not only heard but that their directly elected representatives are taking action on their behalf in order to end the monthly travel between the EP's places of work;

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Göran FÄRM, Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Angelika WERTHMANN, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK, Ulrike LUNACEK

Draft opinion
Recital C h (new)

Ch. whereas the European institutions must do everything to further European political integration and bridge the perceived distance from citizens by tackling a major structural issue of the institutions and promoting European understanding, transparency, accountability and coherence by having the EU's decision making bodies in one place;

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Göran FÄRM, Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Angelika WERTHMANN, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK, Ulrike LUNACEK

Draft opinion
Recital C i (new)

Ci. whereas 6% of the EU budget is intended for administrative purposes and that the European Union, with a relatively small operating budget for 500 million inhabitants, must set an example in these times of crisis by streamlining its own budgetary impact as much as possible without prejudice to the proper functioning of the European Parliament, adding that the efficiency gains of having a single seat near the co-legislator cannot be ignored;

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2308(INI)

Göran FÄRM, Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Anne E. JENSEN, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Dan JØRGENSEN, Bart STAES, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Isabelle DURANT, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Krzysztof LISEK, Ulrike LUNACEK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Considers that while the seats of the European Institutions are enshrined in the Treaties, so is article 48, which allows for a proposal for treaty change;

2013/07/17
Committee: BUDG

2012/2198(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Demands that the European Commission scrutinise and prohibit possible conflicts of interest when the Agency hires experts and staff from the sector it supervises;

2012/12/13
Committee: TRAN

2012/2194(DEC)

Isabelle DURANT, Eva LICHTENBERGER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Takes into account the European Court of Auditors Special report 15/2012 on management of conflict of interest in selected EU Agencies published in October 2012; welcomes, in this regard, the Agency's decision of 1 August 2012 to amend the Code of Conduct for its staff to include a comprehensive policy on the prevention and mitigation of conflict of interest, and will closely monitor the progress made; notes that the Agency's managers, sensitive posts and Members of the Executive Committee have already completed their annual declarations of interest; calls on the European Commission to scrutinise and prohibit possible conflicts of interest when the Agency hires experts and staff from the sector it supervises;

2012/12/13
Committee: TRAN

2012/2193(DEC)

Isabelle DURANT, Eva LICHTENBERGER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Demands that the European Commission scrutinise and prohibit possible conflicts of interest when the Agency hires experts and staff from the sector it supervises;

2012/12/13
Committee: TRAN

2012/2151(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. The situation whereby the financing needs of the Union Budget conflict with the necessary budget consolidation in Member States should be addressed urgently. The time has come, therefore, to engage in a progressive return to a situation in which the Union Budget is financed by genuine own resources, which would relieve national budgets accordingly; reminds furthermore its resolutions of 29 March 20071, 8 June 20112, 13 June 20123 and of 23 October of 20124 in which it explained its views on what a genuine own resources system means and how to make this system compatible with the needed fiscal consolidation at national level in short term; _______________ 1 OJ C 27 E, 31.1.2008, p. 214 2 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0266. 3 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2012)0245. 4 in the interests of achieving a positive outcome of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 approval procedure (COM(2012)0388 – 2011/0177(APP))

2012/10/08
Committee: BUDG

2012/2092(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that EU transport policy is key to achieving the priority of sustainable ~~growth~~development of the Europe 2020 Strategy, including the 20-20-20 and safety targets, and facilitating the functioning of the EU internal market;

2012/07/26
Committee: TRAN

2012/2092(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that the TEN-T programme, through investment in high European added value infrastructures, is essential to raise the competitiveness of the EU as a whole, by creatmoving ~~the missing infrastructure and removing bottlenec~~bottlenecks and building as well as improving trans- border infrastructure, such as rail links, within the internal market; and highlights that ~~infrastructure projects also directly contribute to growth by stimulating employment during the building phase~~, in particular, the improving and upgrading of existing infrastructure projects contribute to more efficient investment by stimulating employment; underlines the role of the TEN-T programme for meeting the adaptation to the climate change goal, safety, environmental protection and biodiversity by ensuring the future sustainability of the EU transport networks; calls for adequate funding of the TEN-T Executive Agency to be able to cope with preparatory work for the implementation of the Connecting Europe Facility.;

2012/07/26
Committee: TRAN

2012/2092(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Underlines the importance of sufficient budgetary allocations to programmes to support the further development of the Single European Sky, Single European Railway Area, Integrated Maritime Policy, electronic ticketing, alternative fuels, renewable energies and urban mobility; reiterates its disappointment on the absence of a budgetary line on tourism and regrets the constant decrease in the ~~road~~ safety budgetary allocation;

2012/07/26
Committee: TRAN

2012/2092(BUD)

Göran FÄRM, Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Ashley FOX, Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG, Bart STAES, Diane DODDS, Ulrike LUNACEK, Dan JØRGENSEN, Krzysztof LISEK, Judith A. MERKIES, Marisa MATIAS, Lara COMI, Isabelle DURANT, Oldřich VLASÁK, Nils TORVALDS, Jan MULDER, George LYON, Mário DAVID

Motion for a resolution
Paragraphs 77 a, b, c, d, e, f, g (new)

Working arrangements of the Parliament 77a. Believes that, like every directly elected parliament, the Parliament should have the right to decide on its own seat and working place arrangements; 77b. Declares therefore that the Parliament's seat and places of work for Members and officials should be decided upon by the Parliament itself; 77c. Urges the two arms of the budgetary authority (the Council and the Parliament), in order to make financial savings and promote a more sustainable climate- and environment friendly solution, to raise the issue of a single seat and Parliament's working places for Members and officials in the upcoming negotiations on the next MFF for 2014- 2020; 77d. Urges the Member States to revise the issue of the Parliament's seat and working places in the next revision of the Treaty by amending protocol 6; 77e. Calls in the meantime on the Council and the Parliament to start elaborating a road-map towards a single seat and a more efficient use of the Parliament's working places, taking into account specific up to date figures detailing the cost of each place of work and working conditions for staff, as well as economic, societal and environmental factors - to be presented in a report by 30 June 2013; 77f. Believes that, as the most viable place for Parliament's seat would be Brussels, co-located alongside Council, Commission and the EEAS, such a road- map should also include a reasonable solution for Strasbourg and Luxemburg so as to avoid, to the extent possible, any loss of jobs and income for citizens and local and regional authorities in those places of work; such a solution could preferably entail locating other institutions permanently to Strasbourg and Luxemburg that could make full use of the Parliament's buildings; 77g. Suggests that the agreement between the authorities in Luxembourg and the Parliament, on the number of staff to be present in Luxembourg, should be revised taking into account a revision of the Parliament's needs;

2012/10/08
Committee: BUDG

2012/2027(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that the ultimate purpose of and the rationale for IFIs is that they should act as a catalyst which makes it possible, on the basis of a contribution from the Union budget, to mobilise funding – public and/or private – for sustainable projects which can secure no support, or only inadequate support, from the market; points out that intervention by the public sector thus makes it possible to reduce the risk-related costs, or to defray part of those costs, thereby facilitating the implementation of the projects concerned;

2012/07/19
Committee: BUDG

2012/2027(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Emphasises that, according to Commission estimates, implementing the EU2020 Strategy and its seven headline initiatives would require investment throughout the Union totalling EUR 1600 billion between now and 2020; notes that these investments meet objectives ranging from the implementation of major infrastructure projects to the provision of support for smaller-scale projects which offer significant potential for ~~growth~~sustainable development and jobs creation at local and regional level, including measures to foster social cohesion;

2012/07/19
Committee: BUDG

2012/2027(INI)

Gesine MEISSNER, Dominique RIQUET, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Isabelle DURANT, Roberts ZĪLE, Jaromír KOHLÍČEK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Emphasises the importance of ex ante assessments in identifying situations of market failure or sub-optimal investment conditions; calls on the Commission to propose objective, polythematic and relevant criteria to govern the role and use of ex ante assessments;

2012/07/19
Committee: BUDG

2012/2016(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Takes note of the rationale adopted by the Commission when proposing reductions as compared to the Financial programming, which has led, in the view of the Commission, to the identification of potential savings within under- implemented lines of –among others- FP7, TEN-T, Marco Polo, Progress, Statistical programme, Customs and Fiscalis; is determined to carefully analyse the performance under each of these programmes in order to check the appropriateness of the proposed cuts and exclude negative impacts on the programmes concerned; recalls that the main TEN-T programme was fully executed in 2011 and points out that a final judgement on how commitments have been implemented and paid out on projects in the 2007-2013 financial framework can be made only in 2017;

2012/05/31
Committee: BUDG

2012/2016(BUD)

Gesine MEISSNER, Dominique RIQUET, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Isabelle DURANT, Roberts ZĪLE, Jaromír KOHLÍČEK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Underlines that at a time of fiscal constraint, innovative solutions are urgently required to mobilise a greater share of private savings and to improve the range of financial instruments available for infrastructure projects;

2012/05/31
Committee: BUDG

2012/2016(BUD)

Gesine MEISSNER, Dominique RIQUET, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Isabelle DURANT, Roberts ZĪLE, Jaromír KOHLÍČEK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Believes that the Programme to support the further development of an Integrated Maritime Policy needs adequate funding for 2013; underlines its disappointment on the absence of a budgetary line on tourism and regrets the constant decrease in the road safety budgetary allocation;

2012/05/31
Committee: BUDG

2012/2016(BUD)

Gesine MEISSNER, Dominique RIQUET, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Isabelle DURANT, Roberts ZĪLE, Jaromír KOHLÍČEK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Stresses that the TEN-T programme ~~plays a central role in the attainment of the objectives of competitiveness and employment in the Europe 2020 Strategy~~, through investment in high European added value infrastructures, plays a central role in the attainment of the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy; considers this programme as essential to raise the competitiveness of the EU as a whole, by creating the missing infrastructure, and removing bottlenecks ~~and~~within the internal market; highlights that infrastructure projects also directly contribute to growth by stimulating employment during the building phase; underlines the role of the TEN-T programme for meeting the adaptation to climate change goals by ensuring the future sustainability of the EU transport networks; welcomes the Commission's proposed increase by ca. EUR 85 million compared to the Budget 2012 but asks for further clarifications on the proposed reduction by EUR 118 million as compared to the Financial programming;

2012/05/31
Committee: BUDG

2012/2016(BUD)

Gesine MEISSNER, Dominique RIQUET, Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL, Isabelle DURANT, Roberts ZĪLE, Jaromír KOHLÍČEK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69

69. Is however worried that for the first time the Commission cut the budgetary requests of almost all agencies, which were in line with Financial programming amounts overall, including of those agencies which belong to Parliament's priorities, for a total amount of some EUR 44 million; will carefully analyse the methodology, rationale and possible impact of such cuts; Underlines once more that EU agencies‘ budget allocations are far from consisting in administrative expenditure alone, but instead contribute to achieving the Europe 2020 goals and EU objectives in general, while aiming at making savings at national level, as decided by the legislative authority;

2012/05/31
Committee: BUDG

2012/0186(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 10

(10) ‘roadworthiness test’ means a verification that ~~the parts and components of a vehicle comply~~a vehicle is safe to be used on public roads, that it meets required environmental characteristics and that its parts and components comply, where applicable, with the its safety and environmental characteristics in force at the time of approval, first registration or entry into service, or ~~at the time of~~ retrofitting;

2013/03/28
Committee: TRAN

2012/0186(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – indent 4

– nuisance, including noise and gaseous emissions, in particular CO2, particulates and NOx.

2013/03/28
Committee: TRAN

2012/0186(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – indent 2

– major deficiencies that may prejudice the safety of the vehicle or put other road users at risk or deficiencies that represent an infringement to the relevant norms on noise and gaseous emissions, in particular CO2, particulates and NOx, or other more significant non- compliances;

2013/03/28
Committee: TRAN

2012/0186(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part 1 – point 9

(9) Nuisance, such as noise and gaseous emissions, in particular CO2, particulates and NOx

2013/03/28
Committee: TRAN

2012/0186(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex 3 – part 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – subparagraph 1

Deficiencies that may prejudice the safety of the vehicle or may not comply with legislation and norms on noise and gaseous emissions, in particular CO2, particulates and NOx, and/or put other road users at risk and other more significant non- compliances. The vehicle must be repaired as soon as possible and further use may be subject to restrictions and conditions, for example, submitting the vehicle to a further roadworthiness inspection.

2013/03/28
Committee: TRAN

2012/0184(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)

(6a) Modern engines are made more fuel efficient using sophisticated engine management and exhaust treatment systems. Unless properly maintained and tuned, these systems can however lead to the emission of higher levels of highly toxic nano-particulates and NOx. For more modern vehicles, periodic roadworthiness tests should therefore also measure the particulate and NOx levels of exhaust gases.

2013/03/28
Committee: TRAN

2012/0184(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)

(10a) To avoid any conflict of interest between testing centres and the bodies involved in performing repairs, no vehicle should undergo roadworthiness testing and repair in installations belonging to the same interests within less than one year's time.

2013/03/28
Committee: TRAN

2012/0184(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – indent 4

~~– It has not been changed in its appearance;~~deleted

2013/03/28
Committee: TRAN

2012/0184(COD)

Isabelle DURANT, Bogusław LIBERADZKI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 9

(9) ‘roadworthiness test’ means a verification that ~~the parts and comp~~a vehicle is safe to be used on public roads, that it meets required environment~~s of a vehicle comply~~al characteristics and that its parts and components comply, where applicable, with ~~its~~the safety and environmental characteristics in force at the time of approval, first registration or entry into service~~, as well as at the time~~ ofr retrofitting;

2013/03/28
Committee: TRAN

2012/0184(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2

2. Roadworthiness tests shall be carried out only by the competent authority of a Member State or by testing centres authorised by Member States or by the supervising bodies set up by them.

2013/03/28
Committee: TRAN

2012/0184(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. To avoid any conflict of interest between testing centres and the bodies involved in performing repairs, testing centres or establishments belonging to the same interests shall not perform repairs on vehicles that they have tested in the elapsed year and vice versa.

2013/03/28
Committee: TRAN

2012/0184(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2

2. In the case where a vehicle of categories M1 or N1 reaches a mileage of 1620 000 km on the first roadworthiness test after the vehicle was first registered, it shall be subject to a roadworthiness test thereafter annually.

2013/03/28
Committee: TRAN

2012/0184(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – indent 2

– major deficiencies that may prejudice the safety of the vehicle or put other road users at risk deficiencies or that represent an infringement to the relevant legislation and norms on noise and gaseous emissions, in particular noise, particulates, CO2 and Nox, or other more significant non- compliances,

2013/03/28
Committee: TRAN

2012/0184(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2

It shall, on the basis of that examination, put forward and evaluate different policy options, including proposals for better interoperability and/or standardisation of electronic documents and the possibility to remove the requirement of a proof of test as provided for in Article 10. Within two years after the date of application of this Regulation, the Commission shall report to the European Parliament and to the Council on the results of the examination, and accompany it with a legislative proposal~~, if appropriate~~.

2013/03/28
Committee: TRAN

2012/0184(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Item 8.2.1.2

8.2.1.2 Gaseous emissions Measurement using an (a) Either, gaseous exhaust gas analyser in emissions exceed the accordance with the specific levels given by requirements(1).. In the manufacturer; ~~Alternatively~~ addition, for vehicles equipped with suitable on- board diagnostic systems, the proper functioning of the emission system can be checked by appropriate reading of the OBD device and checks on the proper functioning of the OBD system in place of emission measurements at in ~~engine idle in~~ accordance with the ~~with the~~ manufacturer’s conditioning recommendations and other requirements(1). Measurement of NOx (b) Or, if this levels by means of a information is not suitable available, the CO ~~emissions exceed,~~equipment/suitably emissions exceed, equipped gas analyser, using existing tailpipe test methods. i) for vehicles not controlled by an advanced emission control system, – 4.5%, or ~~– 3.5%~~ – 3.5% according to the date of first registration or use specified in requirements(1). ii) for vehicles controlled by an advanced emission control system, – at engine idle: 0.5% – at high idle: 0.3% or – at engine idle: 0.3%6 – at high idle: 0.2% according to the date of first registration or use specified in requirements(1). (c) Lambda outside the range 1± 0.03 or not in accordance with the ~~manufacturer’s specification~~manufacturer’s specification (d) OBD readout indicating significant malfunction at engine idle speed. ~~(d) OBD readout indicating significant~~ NOx level not in accordance with the requirements or in excess of the specific levels given by the ma~~lfunction~~nufacturer.

2013/04/03
Committee: TRAN

2012/0184(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Item 8.2.2.2

8.2.2.2 Opacity Vehicles registered or put (a) Exhaust gas opacity to (a) For vehicles into service before 1 be measured during free registered or put into January 1980 are acceleration (no load from service for the first time exempted from this idle up to cut-off speed) after the date specified in requirement with gear lever in neutral requirements(1)., and clutch engaged. (b) Vehicle opacity exceeds the level preconditioning: recorded on the manufacturer’s plate on the vehicle; 1. Vehicles may be tested (b) Where this without preconditioning information is not although for safety available or reasons checks should be requirements(1). do not made that the engine is allow the use of reference warm and in a satisfactory values, mechanical condition. 2. precondition for naturally aspirated requirements: engines: 2.5 m-1 , (i) Engine shall be fully for turbo-charged engines: warm, for instance the 3.0 m-1, engine oil temperature measured by a probe in the oil level dipstick tube to be at least 80 ºC, or normal operating temperature if lower, or the engine block temperature measured by the level of infrared radiation to be at least an equivalent temperature. If, owing to vehicle configuration, this measurement is impractical, the establishment of the engine's normal operating temperature may be made by other means, for example by the operation of the engine cooling fan. (ii) Exhaust system shall or, for vehicles identified be purged by at least three in requirements(1). or first free acceleration cycles or registered or put into by an equivalent method. service for the first time after the date specified in requirements(1)., (c) Test procedure: 1.5 m-1.17 1 Engine and any or turbocharger fitted, to be at idle before the start of each free acceleration cycle. For heavy-duty diesels, this means waiting for at least 10 seconds after the release of the throttle. 2. To initiate each free 0.2m-1 acceleration cycle, the throttle pedal must be fully depressed quickly and continuously (in less than one second) but not violently, so as to obtain maximum delivery from the injection pump. 3. During each free acceleration cycle, the engine shall reach cut-off speed or, for vehicles with automatic transmissions, the speed specified by the manufacturer or if this data is not available then two thirds of the cut-off speed, before the throttle is released. This could be checked, for instance, by monitoring engine speed or by allowing a sufficient time to elapse between initial throttle depression and release, which in the case of vehicles of category 1 and 2 of Annex 1, should be at least two ~~seconds.~~ seconds. 4. Vehicles shall only be failed if the arithmetic means of at least the last three free acceleration cycles are in excess of the limit value. This may be calculated by ignoring any measurement that departs significantly from the measured mean, or the result of any other statistical calculation that takes account of the scattering of the measurements. Member States may limit the number of test cycles. 5. To avoid unnecessary testing, Member States may fail vehicles which have measured values significantly in excess of the limit values after less than three free acceleration cycles or after the purging cycles. Equally to avoid unnecessary testing, Member States may pass vehicles which have measured values significantly below the limits after less than three free acceleration cycles or after the purging cycles Measurement of NOx NOx level or particulate levels and particulates by values not in accordance means of a suitable with the requirements or equipment/suitably in excess of the specific equipped gas analyser, levels given by the using existing free manufacturer. acceleration test methods.

2013/04/03
Committee: TRAN

2011/2238(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to increase the effectiveness of how the 'Single European Sky' Regulations are applied, in order to increase the effectiveness of investments in the SESAR project;

2012/01/12
Committee: TRAN

2011/2201(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Commission to present, on an annual basis, lists of tourism and transport infrastructure projects, co- financed by cohesion and regional funds, as is already the case for TEN-T funds, and, as a result, make information on Union co-funding easily accessible and transparent for other Institutions and the taxpayer;

2012/01/12
Committee: TRAN

2011/2201(DEC)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the Commission's proposals in relation to the TEN-T and the relevant financial instrument (known as the ‘Connecting Europe Facility’), and endorses its budgetary commitments, which are commensurate with the objectives of the new proposal;deleted

2012/01/12
Committee: TRAN

2011/2096(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9

– having regard to the Commission’s communications entitled ‘the Citizens’ Network’ (COM(1995)0601) and ‘Action Plan on Urban Mobility’ (COM(2009)0490),

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)

- having regard to the Commission’s communication entitled ‘Towards fair and efficient pricing in transport’ of 1995 and whereas the Commission should republish its communication ‘transport and CO2’ COM(98)0204,

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas the future European transport and mobility policy should integrate the 20-20-20 targets up to 2020 as a primary basis for decision making within this field, particularly as the transport sector will be amongst the most severely hit by extreme weather conditions resulting from climate change and by unsustainable and increasingly expensive fossil and nuclear energy sources,

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas certain goals of the last White Paper were not reached, and the goals set should therefore be regularly checked a~~nd asses~~gainst achieved results and supported by policies designed, implemented and, if necessary, revised in such a way as to reach the agreed objectives; the urgency of their implementation needs to be emphasised,

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas carriers, should not besolely be seen as competitors, but should also complement one another ~~in a context of efficient co- modality,~~with a view to generating an efficient and welfare- maximising modal split and whereas public authorities should therefore discourage unnecessary transport and take the measures necessary to stimulate a shift of traffic towards the most sustainable modes of transport under the guiding principle of an efficient ~~modal distribution of~~allocation of transport operations amongst carriers,

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 1

– that, by 2013, the Commission should make specific proposals, on the basis of the report on European road safety 2011-2020, to reduce the number of deaths and severe injuries on the roads by 50% in relation to 2010; and to indicate the costs and benefits expected from each concrete proposal in terms of accidents reduction;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 2

– that, by 2014, ~~a proposal~~the Commission should be submit~~ted~~ a proposal to provide for the internalisation of the external costs of all modes of transport, whilst avoiding ~~double charging and~~ market distortions, in order to ~~increase~~transfer investments in ~~mobility, safety and research~~to safety, research and climate protection within sustainable mobility; that this proposal should put an end at the unfair approach of fixing maxima for levies on road infrastructure while keeping obligatory minima on charging rail infrastructure use;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – introductory part

2. Approves the ten goals set in the White Paper for 2050 as well as the overall target for emissions from transport, but considers that more specific provisions are required for the period until 2020 with regard to funding – in view of the economic situation of individual Member States – and the general challenges facing transport in the field of energy and the environment, and therefore calls on the Commission to draw up legal rules to reach intermediate goals for each of the ten goals of the White Paper and to reach the following additional goals by 2020 (in relation to ~~201~~1990 reference figures):

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 1

– a 230% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions ~~from road~~and in other GHGs from transport;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 2 a (new)

- a noise reduction in rail, air and road transport of 5db at day (d), 10 dB at evening (e) and 15 dB at night (n), affecting densely populated areas;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

and calls for all these goals referred to in this paragraph to be considered priorities, which should therefore be checked every year;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Eva LICHTENBERGER, Michael CRAMER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Underlines that the Transport Protocol of the Alpine Convention offers a good basis for developing a model of good practise on sustainable transport policy, inspiring other mountain areas in Europe;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that the completion of the European internal transport market should be aimed for, without neglecting economic, employment, environmental and social aspects, and calls on the Commission to ensure that proposals on liberalising the airport, rail, road, and other markets do not lead to social dumping or private monopolies; regulating policy and particularly its enforcement needs to be accelerated;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that efficient ~~co-modality~~intermodal door- to-door chains in passenger mobility and goods transport –should be the guiding idea for future transport policy. This needs to be measured in terms of economic efficiency, environmental protection, ~~social and~~energy security, social, health & employment conditions and safety aspects, a~~nd geared to existing and planned~~ccompanied by mobility management and green logistics, thus determining infrastructure investment needs in individual countries and regions – should be the guiding idea for future transport policy, and that these parameters should be used to determine modal distribution in countries and regions rather than retaining the proposed 300 km threshold for goods transport by road; . The modal share of rail and waterborne transport shall be increased to 20% by 2020 and to 50% by 2050. This policy should be accompanied by mobility management and green logistics and be geared to existing and planned infrastructure in individual countries and regions;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Notes the high degree of dependence of the Union on imported fossil fuels, whose supply from outside the Union is related to significant risks in terms of the Union’s economic security and in terms of the flexibility of its external policy options, and calls upon the Commission to define and regularly measure the Union’s external security of energy supply and to propose legislation to set binding quantitative reduction targets for the use of imported fossil fuels in transport;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4 b. Recognises that transport modes are complementary, that this complementarity is to be analysed primarily in terms of distance ranges, welcomes the indicative goals of the Transport White Paper in terms of long-distance overland freight transport and intermediate-distance overland passenger transport, interprets these goals as average values to be achieved in the Union as a whole while fully allowing for national and regional differences, and calls on the Commission to propose legislation on the collection and publication of statistical indicators that would lead to annual monitoring and reporting of progress towards those goals;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – introductory part

5. Stresses that the TEN-T concept should provide for a limited number of sustainable projects with ~~higher levels of funding~~a realistic perspective of funding and realisation within this decade, and that:

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 1

– Member States should commit themselves to ~~eliminate~~ the 25 known ~~bottlenec~~sustainable infrastructure links in the European transport area that can be financed and realised by 2020, to prioritise cross-border rail projects in new Member States and to submit an approved funding plan by 2015;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 2

– the Commission should commit itself to propose to Member States that its direct funding for such projects should amount to at least 30% of total investments in coordination with regional policy and in accordance with the 20-20-20 targets up to 2020;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 3

– the Commission should commit itself to support alternative funding models and instruments, including project bonds, and to ~~provide for increased use of that revenue to fund TEN-T projects when making proposals to~~ internalise external costs;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 5

– project priorities should only be maintained after 2015 if the Member States have taken binding budget decisions which ensure the implementation of the projects and the co-funding of the EU should be based on the ‘use it or lose it’ principle;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 5 a (new)

- EuroVelo, the European long-distance cycle route network, should be included in the TEN-T network;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Requests, by 2015, a proposal on urban mobility in which, whilst respecting the principle of subsidiarity, support for projects is made conditional upon the submission of sustainable urban mobility plans which provide for efficient passenger and goods logistics chains, contribute to a reduction in traffic volumes, accidents, impact on climate change and environmental pollution (atmospheric pollution and noise), comply with the standards and targets of European transport policy and are coherent with regard to surrounding towns and regions;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Asserts that sustainable multi- modality for passengers and goods logistics needs the provision of intermodal connection points and terminals, integrated planning and logistics, as well as integrated education and vocational training;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Stresses that the behaviour of transport users is decisive and calls for the creation of incentives to choose sustainable ~~means of transport, where proposals should be made by 2013 to develop~~, physically active, safe and healthy means of transport and mobility, where a European Commission cross-service strategy on non-motorised transport should be developed and proposals made by 2013 to fix at least 15 % of EU co- funding in transport in favour of infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists in towns, to double the ~~number of~~modal share of pedestrians, cyclists, car-sharing and passengers on public transport, which mainly uses alternative sources of energy, and to establish e-tickets for multi-modal travel, and where pricing policy should be considered as an incentive;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – indent 2 a (new)

- to develop concepts and systems that contribute to transport volume reduction and avoidance;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Considers that bureaucratic hurdles should be reduced for all forms of transport and calls, therefore, for the increased harmonisation of transport documents, ~~particularly for goods transport by road,~~ and for the submission, by 2013, of a proposal on the standardisation of freight documents and e-documents, including also the facilitation of multimodal transport;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Eva LICHTENBERGER, Michael CRAMER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Recognises that low emission / green zones can make an important contribution to improving air quality in urban areas, but cities should have the freedom to design and implement schemes based on their unique circumstances; believes that a central information point for all schemes across the EU should be promoted to enable effective journey planning and a good example would be the expansion of http://www.lowemissionzones.eu and include road pricing zones;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Highlights the fact that ~~direct improvements to, and the standardisation of, loading uni~~not increasing today’s standardised weights and ~~the~~ dimensions of transport vehicles ~~would~~, that have been fixed EU wide, optimises multi- modal transport;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Calls on Member States to support and work towards a level playing field between all modes of transport in terms of energy taxation and Value Added Tax (VAT);

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 – indent 1

~~– another review of the rules on driving and rest times for passenger and goods transport, and the implementation thereof, by 2014;~~deleted

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 – indent 2 a (new)

- to fix EU co-funding for road infrastructure at maximum 20% of the total EU transport co-funding;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 – indent 3

– the Commission to support Member State initiatives to create a safe and environmentally friendly fleet by ~~means of~~all modes by means of bonus-malus tax in~~cen~~itiatives;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 4

– the dedication of ~~at least 10% of TEN-T funding~~EU co-funding for inland waterway projects that have a positive environmental impact assessment, including the promotion of river-adapted ships in sustainable inland navigation (RASSIN) that contribute to fin~~land waterway projec~~ancial savings in waterway infrastructure investments;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – indent 3 a (new)

- the Commission to strengthen coordination between the Single Sky Regulations and the SESAR and Galileo projects as well as the Clean Sky initiatives, to obtain more efficient energy and GHG emissions reduction measures;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 – indent 1

– the Commission to take Member States’ commitments in relation to local public transport and existing service levels into account when ~~liberalis~~opening markets, with the aim of improving current service levels;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 – indent 2

– a harmonisation of the rules on vehicle ~~registr~~authorisation by 2015, so that the certification of rolling stock may not take longer than two months, and relevant changes to the responsibilities of the European Railway Agency and its funding by 2012;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Isabelle DURANT, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 – indent 3 a (new)

- a boost of a well-conceived railway infrastructure, noise reduction and ERTMS action plan up to 2020 and next 2030, improving considerably co-funding by the EU;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2096(INI)

Michael CRAMER, Eva LICHTENBERGER, Isabelle DURANT, Keith TAYLOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 – indent 3 b (new)

- the allocation of at least 40% of all EU co-funding in transport to railway projects;

2011/09/21
Committee: ITRE

2011/2082(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Is of the opinion that the proper functioning of the internal market is hampered by the diversity and unfair design of current rules regarding VAT on freight and passenger transport;

2011/08/23
Committee: TRAN

2011/2082(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Draws attention to the complex and unfair situation regarding passenger transport: domestic passenger transport is taxed in almost all Member States. There are, however, exemptions, zero rates and different rates depending on the mode of transport and the Member State. International transport by sea and air, which includes intra-EU cross-border transport, is exempt from VAT in all Member States, whereas the situation regarding other modes varies across Member States. In addition, international air and sea transport providers can purchase some goods and services free of VAT, which creates an unfair cash-flow advantage compared with other modes of transport;

2011/08/23
Committee: TRAN

2011/2082(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Draws attention to the agreed EU 20-20- 20 targets by 2020 and to the complex and unfair situation regarding passenger transport: domestic passenger transport is taxed in almost all Member States. There are, however, exemptions, zero rates and different rates depending on the mode of transport and the Member State. International transport by sea and air, which includes intra-EU cross-border transport, is exempt from VAT in all Member States, whereas the situation regarding domestic flights and other modes varies across Member States. In addition, international air and sea transport providers can purchase some goods and services free of VAT;

2011/08/23
Committee: TRAN

2011/2082(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for a harmonised standard or reduced VAT rate for all intra-EU cross- border travel regardless of the mode of transport, and for harmonised regulation of VAT deductability; encourages the Commission and the Member States to introduce harmonised VAT rates for all modes of transport in the EU and the goods and services they purchase in order to guarantee fair competition between all of them;

2011/08/23
Committee: TRAN

2011/2082(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Supports, however, a lower or zero rate for surface public transport for public- interest, social and environmental reasons;

2011/08/23
Committee: TRAN

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)

– having regard to the revised European Social Charter, in particular Articles 30 (on the right to protection against poverty and social exclusion), 31 (on the right to housing) and 16 (on the right of the family to social, legal and economic protection) thereof,

2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas ~~the most vulnerable groups have been those most severely affected by the crisis and the associated austerity measures,~~ 116 million people in the European Union are at risk of poverty and 42 million (i.e. 8%) live ‘in conditions of severe material deprivation and can not afford a number of necessities considered essential in order to live a decent life in Europe’1; whereas poverty is the unacceptable reflection of an uneven distribution of wealth, income and resources in a prosperous European economy; whereas the most vulnerable groups have been those most severely affected by the crisis and the associated austerity measures, notably as a result of cuts in public service and social assistance budgets; whereas applying tougher conditions and penalties in social activation policies in response to the crisis aggravates the difficulties faced by the most vulnerable people at a time when few decent jobs are on offer, __________________ 1 The European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion (COM(2010)758 final).

2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas severe poverty represents a violation of human rights and a serious erosion of human dignity,

2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Frédéric DAERDEN, Sylvie GOULARD, Íñigo MÉNDEZ DE VIGO, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Karima DELLI, Jean LAMBERT, Isabelle DURANT, Ilda FIGUEIREDO, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the Europe 2020 strategy aims to reduce the number of people at risk of poverty by at least 20 million, on the basis of three indicators (the at-risk-of-poverty rate after social transfers, the severe material deprivation index and the percentage of people living in jobless households); whereas this aim may be an acknowledgement of the importance of combating poverty and social exclusion but, given the figures of 116 million at risk of poverty and 42 million living in conditions of severe material deprivation, it reflects the abandonment from the outset of millions of people in Europe, with the associated risk of generating threshold effects and excluding the most vulnerable people from the scope of policies geared to measurable results; whereas if the most intractable situations are not addressed from the outset, the policies implemented will have no impact on them,

2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Karima DELLI, Jean LAMBERT, Isabelle DURANT, Mara BIZZOTTO, Vincenzo IOVINE, Marian HARKIN, Jean-Luc BENNAHMIAS, Nathalie GRIESBECK, Robert ROCHEFORT, Antigoni PAPADOPOULOU, Patrick LE HYARIC, Ilda FIGUEIREDO, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Rovana PLUMB, Ádám KÓSA, Sylvie GOULARD, Íñigo MÉNDEZ DE VIGO, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Ccalls on the Commission to ~~involve civil society at national and European level and to make discussions with people living in poverty a formal part of the annual convention on poverty~~boost the involvement in the development of a European strategy at all levels of governance (European, national, regional and local) of organised civil society and of all stakeholders, such as NGOs, social economy organisations, service providers, experts in social innovation and the social partners, as well as people living in poverty themselves, in partnership with the associations in which they freely express their opinions and which have acquired experience and knowledge, particularly through the development of national platforms against poverty and social exclusion in each Member State; calls on the Commission to enhance cooperation between local, regional and national authorities and European Institutions, particularly the European Parliament; believes that the synergies should concern all stakeholders, including SMEs and entrepreneurs; calls for discussions with people living in poverty and social exclusion to be institutionalised, and to be extended at national level, and for their participation and contribution to be made a formal and central part of the annual convention on poverty and social exclusion, and calls for appropriate and regular follow-up of the recommendations so developed;

2011/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the Commission’s new strategy for implementation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights aims, in particular, to improve the most disadvantaged people’s access to fundamental rights; whereas the Charter must be respected in its entirety and whereas severe poverty represents a violation of human rights and a serious erosion of human dignity and encourages stigmatisation and injustice; whereas the key objective of income support schemes is to bring people out of poverty and enable them to live in dignity,

2011/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Sylvie GOULARD, Nathalie GRIESBECK, Jean-Luc BENNAHMIAS, Íñigo MÉNDEZ DE VIGO, Ilda FIGUEIREDO, Patrick LE HYARIC, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Karima DELLI, Jean LAMBERT, Isabelle DURANT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls for poverty awareness seminars to be organised in the European institutions and Member State governments by organisations which have specific experience of combating poverty and for experiments in joint training on social and exclusion issues to be made, bringing together European officials and people with hands-on experience of combating poverty;

2011/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Franz OBERMAYR, Jean-Luc BENNAHMIAS, Nathalie GRIESBECK, Robert ROCHEFORT, Sylvie GOULARD, Íñigo MÉNDEZ DE VIGO, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Karima DELLI, Isabelle DURANT, Ilda FIGUEIREDO, Frédéric DAERDEN, Philippe BOULLAND, Joanna Katarzyna SKRZYDLEWSKA, Rovana PLUMB

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls for ~~regular, critical monitoring of~~the establishment of a regular, critical evaluation mechanism, involving the European Parliament, the Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee, based on precise indicators at national and European level, by which the multiple dimensions of poverty can be evaluated and the Member States’ progress, by gender and age, towards achieving the poverty reduction target, and towards breaking this target down into sub-targets, can be measured, in view of the fact that the lack of a precise definition of poverty leaves too much leeway for the Member States, t~~o break this target down into sub-targets;~~ hus risking aberrant interpretations; calls on the Commission to improve national and European indicators relating to the comparability of national statistics on the poverty of vulnerable people and to promote, with Eurostat, the production of more precise statistics within a comprehensive scoreboard on poverty and social exclusion by means of which it will be possible to track the number of people below the 50% and 40% levels of median income and on this basis to conduct an annual evaluation of the situations of poverty in the EU, the statistical approach of which should be supplemented by a qualitative and participatory approach; calls on the Commission to ensure the policies implemented are beneficial to all and not just to those close to the poverty threshold;

2011/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Karima DELLI, Isabelle DURANT, Ilda FIGUEIREDO, Patrick LE HYARIC, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Sylvie GOULARD, Íñigo MÉNDEZ DE VIGO

Motion for a resolution
Considérant C

C. whereas the Europe 2020 strategy a~~ims to~~dopts, as one of its five major objectives, a soft target, i.e. one without sanctions, aiming at reduceing the number of people at risk of poverty by 20 million, on the basis of three indicators agreed by Member States (the at-risk-of-poverty rate after social transfers, the severe material deprivation index and the percentage of people living in jobless households), and whereas this aim may be an acknowledgement of the importance of combating poverty and social exclusion but, given the figures of 116 million at risk of poverty and 42 million living in conditions of severe material deprivation, it reflects the abandonment from the outset of millions of people in Europe, with the associated risk of generating threshold effects and excluding the most vulnerable people from the scope of policies geared to measurable results; whereas if the most intractable situations are not addressed from the outset, the policies implemented will have no impact on them; whereas the European Platform against poverty constitutes one of the seven flagship initiatives of the EU 2020 strategy,

2011/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Karima DELLI, Jean LAMBERT, Isabelle DURANT, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Ilda FIGUEIREDO, Frédéric DAERDEN, Marc TARABELLA, Antigoni PAPADOPOULOU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls for the open method of social coordination to be strengthened and applied correctly in the field of poverty, inter alia through the common development, implementation and evaluation of national strategies for social inclusion and protection, on the basis of commonly defined objectives, via national platforms against poverty, by exchanges of good practice on policies regarding effective access to fundamental rights and implementation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the revised Social Charter (not yet ratified by all Member States), in particular Articles 30 and 31 thereof; stresses that, in this context, the work of the Council’s Social Protection Committee should continue to be taken into account; calls for the Platform to promote and follow up the participation of local authorities, social economy enterprises and other local stakeholders in drawing up and implementing national strategic reports;

2011/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Karima DELLI, Jean LAMBERT, Isabelle DURANT, Sylvie GOULARD, Íñigo MÉNDEZ DE VIGO, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Ilda FIGUEIREDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission ~~to specify th~~, in consultation with the European Central Bank, to propose common principles ~~used~~ to define the ‘basket of basic goods and services’ ~~accessible to all;~~ required to enable everyone to live in dignity, and points out that these immediate needs are inseparable from respect for human dignity and effective access to all fundamental rights – whether civil, political, economic, social or cultural – without exception; calls for the target of price stability to be clarified so as to allow specific national situations to be taken into account that do not necessarily have a significant impact on the euro- system indicators;

2011/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Karima DELLI, Jean LAMBERT, Isabelle DURANT, Ilda FIGUEIREDO, Patrick LE HYARIC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls for the Platform to be geared towards asserting the rights which enable everyone to live in dignity, particularly in the field of employment, housing, health care, social security and adequate living standards, justice, education, training and culture, and the protection of families and children; calls for the Fundamental Rights Agency to produce a study on effective access by the poorest people to the whole range of fundamental rights and the other rights enshrined in the international agreements to which the Member States are signatories, and on the discrimination they face, with the participation of NGOs in which socially excluded people can freely express themselves, and bearing in mind that securing the right to housing is a necessary prerequisite for the full exercise of other fundamental rights, including political and social rights;

2011/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Roger HELMER, Karima DELLI, Jean LAMBERT, Frédéric DAERDEN, Isabelle DURANT, Joanna Katarzyna SKRZYDLEWSKA, Ádám KÓSA, Kinga GÖNCZ, Vincenzo IOVINE, Marian HARKIN, Ilda FIGUEIREDO, Patrick LE HYARIC, Sylvie GOULARD, Íñigo MÉNDEZ DE VIGO, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Konstantinos POUPAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. ~~Advocates~~Recommends the Member States to adopt a proactive decent housing policy in order to ensure universal access to ~~decent, affordable housing~~quality housing at affordable prices or on preferential terms of purchase, and to prevent the loss thereof, with guaranteed access to services essential to health and safety, the lack of such housing being a serious affront to dignity, along with a proactive energy policy that steps up the use of renewable energies and boosts energy efficiency in order to combat energy poverty; calls for more attention to be paid to housing for migrants, who are often exploited and forced to live in sub- standard housing; recalls Protocol 26 annexed to the Treaty of Lisbon on social housing and calls for the provisions contained therein to be respected, in particular on the Member States’ freedom to organise social housing, including the question of financing; encourages the Member States to implement special housing programmes and opportunities for homeless people, in view of guaranteeing the most basic standards of living for the most vulnerable in society;

2011/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Karima DELLI, Isabelle DURANT, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Mara BIZZOTTO, Jean-Luc BENNAHMIAS, Robert ROCHEFORT, Nathalie GRIESBECK, Evelyn REGNER, Jutta STEINRUCK, Sylvana RAPTI, Verónica LOPE FONTAGNÉ, Jan KOZŁOWSKI, Sylvie GOULARD, Íñigo MÉNDEZ DE VIGO

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas ~~the most vulnerable groups have been those most severely affected by the crisis and the associated austerity measures,~~ 116 million people in the European Union are at risk of poverty and 42 million (i.e. 8%) live ‘in conditions of severe material deprivation and can not afford a number of necessities considered essential in order to live a decent life in Europe’1; whereas poverty is the unacceptable reflection of an uneven distribution of wealth, income and resources in a prosperous European economy; whereas the most vulnerable groups, such as the elderly and disabled people, have been those most severely affected by the financial, economic and social crisis and the austerity measures currently being taken in the EU in the context of the ‘Euro Plus Pact’ and the ‘governance package’, which could worsen the situation for these groups and put at risk of unemployment, economic insecurity or poverty millions of people who were still managing to live on, and meet their basic needs from, their wages or retirement pension, notably as a result of cuts in public service and social assistance budgets; whereas applying tougher conditions and penalties in social activation policies in response to the crisis aggravates the difficulties faced by the most vulnerable people at a time when few decent jobs are on offer; whereas the gap between rich and poor is getting ever wider as the crisis continues; __________________ 1 European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion (COM(2010)758 final).

2011/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to involve civil society atnd all stakeholders at local, national and European level, a~~nd to make discussions with people living in poverty~~s well as people living in poverty themselves, in partnership with the associations in which they freely express their opinions, particularly through the development of national platforms against poverty and social exclusion in each Member State; calls for discussions with people living in poverty and social exclusion to be institutionalised, and to be extended at national level, and for their participation and contribution to be made a formal part of the annual convention on poverty and social exclusion;

2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls for experiments in joint training on social and exclusion issues to be made, bringing together European officials and people with hands-on experience of combating poverty;

2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls for regular, critical monitoring of the Member States’ progress towards achieving the poverty reduction target, and for the Member States to break this target down into sub-targets, in close cooperation with local authorities; calls for a set of indicators to be chosen by means of which it will be possible to track the number of people below the 50% and 40% levels of median income and to ensure the policies implemented are beneficial to all and not just to those close to the poverty threshold, and also calls on the European Union to devise a comprehensive scoreboard on poverty and social exclusion to be published each year, the statistical approach of which should be supplemented by a qualitative and participatory approach;

2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls for the open method of social coordination to be strengthened and applied correctly in the field of poverty, inter alia through the common development, implementation and evaluation of national strategies for social inclusion and protection, on the basis of commonly defined objectives, via national platforms against poverty and by exchanges of good practice on policies regarding effective access to fundamental rights; calls for the open method of social coordination to permit the implementation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the revised Social Charter, in particular Articles 30 and 31 thereof; calls for the open method of coordination to encourage the Member States to ratify the revised European Social Charter;

2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to ~~specify th~~propose common principles ~~used~~ to define the ‘basket of basic goods and services’ ~~accessible to all~~required to enable everyone to live in dignity, and points out that these immediate needs are inseparable from respect for human dignity and effective access to all fundamental rights – whether civil, political, economic, social or cultural – without exception;

2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls for the Platform to be geared towards asserting the rights which enable everyone to live in dignity, particularly in the field of employment, housing, health care, social security and adequate living standards, justice, education, training and culture, and the protection of families and children; calls for the Fundamental Rights Agency to produce a study on effective access by the poorest people to the whole range of fundamental rights and on the discrimination they face, with the participation of NGOs in which socially excluded people can freely express themselves, and bearing in mind that securing the right to housing is a necessary prerequisite for the full exercise other fundamental rights, including political and social rights;

2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls for all NGOs and small associations to be given support in their struggle for fundamental rights in order to strengthen the necessary human investment, allow people living in poverty to participate and to better inform them about access to rights and justice;

2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Karima DELLI, Jean LAMBERT, Frédéric DAERDEN, Isabelle DURANT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Urges the Commission to consult as to how best to combat negative discrimination based on social origin;

2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Advocates a proactive decent housing policy in order to ensure universal access to ~~decent~~quality, affordable housing, the lack of which is a serious affront to dignity, along with a proactive energy policy that steps up the use of renewable energies and boosts energy efficiency in order to combat energy poverty;

2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2011/2052(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Calls for the relationship between parents and children to be given particular attention in programmes to combat poverty in order to prevent children being placed in care as a consequence of severe poverty;

2011/06/28
Committee: EMPL

2011/2020(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Underlines that every budget, including the 2012 budget, should contribute to and stimulate the development of a sustainable transport ~~system~~and tourism services contributing to the EU efforts to tackling climate change ~~via decarbonisation~~and oil independency via energy saving and renewable sources;

2011/07/29
Committee: TRAN

2011/2020(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Considers that the draft budget as proposed by the Commission constitutes the minimum necessary to sustain momentum in the implementation of the European Union policy described in the new White Paper on transport; believes that ~~increasing~~ public financing for transport ~~contributes to~~should be oriented towards reducing and avoiding external social and environmental costs and thereby contribute to solving environmental problems, overcoming the crisis and creating jobs;

2011/07/29
Committee: TRAN

2011/2020(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for significantly improved access to finance in innovation and infrastructures, notably for green technologies, the Trans-European Networks (TEN) with focus on existing rail infrastructure, linking operational with infrastructure investments, and other projects with proven European added value financed by Cohesion and Structural Funds;

2011/07/29
Committee: TRAN

2011/2020(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Regrets that, on the basis of Art. 195 of the Lisbon Treaty, the Commission is not proposing a new legal basis to replace the three preparatory actions in the field of sustainable tourism which cannot be extended in 2012 and asks that appropriate resources be allocated for the tourism sector in 2012 and 2013 as well as in the future multiannual financial framework;

2011/07/29
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 14 – point b

(b) Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research, sustainable tourism, and the bio- economy;

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 14 – point d

(d) Smart, green and integrated transport and mobility;

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 2 – point 1 – point 1.3 – point 1.3.3 – point e – paragraph 1

Applying design and the development of converging technologies to create new business opportunities, including the preservation of materials with historical or cultural value, as well as improving eco- tourism and sustainable tourism destination networks in the field of historical, cultural, industrial and natural heritage.

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 2 – introductory part

2. Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research, sustainable tourism and the bio- economy

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 3

Research and innovation will interface with a wide spectrum of Union policies and related targets, including the Common Agriculture Policy (in particular the Rural Development Policy) and the European Innovation Partnership ‘Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability’, the Common Fisheries Policy, the Integrated Maritime Policy, the Common Sustainable Tourism Policy, the European Climate Change Programme, the Water Framework Directive, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the Forestry Action Plan, the Soil Thematic Strategy, the Union's 2020 Biodiversity Strategy, the Strategic Energy Technology Plan, the Union's innovation and industrial policies, external and development aid policies, plant health strategies, animal health and welfare strategies and regulatory frameworks to protect the environment, health and safety, to promote resource efficiency and climate action, and to reduce waste. A better integration of research and innovation into related Union policies will significantly improve their European added value, provide leverage effects, increase societal relevance and help to further develop sustainable land, seas and oceans management and bio-economy markets.

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 2 – point 2.3 – point c a (new)

(ca) The aim is to improve networking and information within European eco- and sustainable tourism potential, thereby better protecting cultural, historical, industrial and natural heritage.

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 4 – introductory part

4. Smart, green and integrated transport and mobility

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 1

The specific objective is to achieve a European transport system that is resource- efficient, climate- and environmentally- friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of citizens, users, workers and employees and the economy, ands well as society.

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 4 – point 4.1 – paragraph 2

Europe must reconcile the ~~grow~~changing mobility needs of its citizens with the imperatives of economic performance and the requirements of a low-carbon society and climate resilient economy. Despite its ~~growth~~needs, the transport and mobility sector must achieve a substantial reduction in greenhouse gases and other adverse environmental impacts, and must break its dependency on oil, while maintaining high levels of efficiency and mobility.

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 4 – point 4.2 – paragraph 2

The transport sector is a major contributor to greenhouse gases and generates up to a quarter of all emissions. Transport is 96 % dependent on fossil fuels. Meanwhile, congestion is an increasing problem; systems are not yet sufficiently smart; alternatives for shifting between different modes of transport are not always attractive; road fatalities remain dramatically high at 34 000 per year in the Union; citizens and businesses expect a transport system that is accessible to all, safe and secure. The urban context poses specific challenges to a better balance of quality of life and the sustainability of transport and mobility.

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 4 – point 4.2 – paragraph 3

Within a few decades the expected growth rates of transport would drive European traffic into a gridlock and make its economic costs and societal impact unbearable. Passenger-kilometres are predicted to double over the next 40 years and grow twice as fast for air travel. CO2 emissions would grow 35 % by 2050. Congestion costs would increase by about 50 %, to nearly EUR 200 billion annually. The external costs of accidents would increase by about EUR 60 billion compared to 2005, and the external costs of climate change would even increase much more.

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 4 – point 4.2 – paragraph 3 a (new)

It will be crucial to support and develop innovative concepts in the delivery of transport and mobility services, through substantial improvements in green logistics and mobility management. New approaches in production, stockpiling and delivery of goods, as well as more efficient and rational responses to mobility needs and use of communication tools, should lead to a society with less waste in transport- and mobility-related services. A link shall be made between transport avoidance policies and employment.

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 4 – point 4.2 – paragraph 5

The problems of pollution, congestion, safety and security are common throughout the Union and call for collaborative Europe-wide responses. Accelerating the development and deployment of new technologies and innovative solutions for vehicles, infrastructures and green transport logistics and mobility management will be key to achieve a cleaner and more efficient transport system in the Union; to deliver the results necessary to mitigate climate change and improve resource efficiency; to maintain European leadership on the world markets for transport related products, demand management concepts and services. These objectives cannot be achieved through fragmented national efforts alone.

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 4 – point 4.2 – paragraph 8

Investing in research and innovation for a greener, smarter and more integrated transport system will make an important contribution to the Europe 2020 goals of smart, sustainable and inclusive ~~growth~~development and the objectives of the Innovation Union flagship initiative. The activities will support the implementation of the White Paper on Transport aiming at a Single European Transport Area. They will also contribute to the policy goals outlined in the flagship initiatives on ‘Resource Efficient Europe’, ‘An Industrial Policy for the Globalisation Era’ and ‘A Digital Agenda for Europe’.

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 4 – point 4.3 – point a – paragraph 2

The focus of activities shall be to reduce resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions and improve vehicle efficiency, to accelerate the development and deployment of a new generation of electric and other low or zero emission vehicles (not only cars, but also e-bicycles, tramways and trains), including through breakthroughs in engines, batteries and infrastructure and induction; to explore and exploit the potential of alternative fuels and innovative and more efficient propulsion systems, including fuel infrastructure; to optimise the use of infrastructures, by means of intelligent transport systems and smart equipment; and to increase the use of demand management and public and non-motorised transport, and intermodal mobility chains (walking-cycling, car sharing, carpooling, public and collective mobility) particularly in urban areas.

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 3 – point 4 – point 4.3 – point d – paragraph 2

The focus of activities shall be to improve the understanding of transport related socio-economic trends and prospects, and provide policy makers with evidence-based data and analyses. This also includes the impact of the liberalisation of the transport and mobility sector, such as the need to better understand the effect of rail liberalisation on the quality of services, the environment and the social interests of employees.

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0401(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – Breakdown of the budget – table

I Excellent science, of which: 27818 1. The European Research Council 15008 2. Future and Emerging Science and Technologies 3505 3. Marie Curie actions on skills, training and career development 6503 4. European research infrastructures (including eInfrastructures) 2802 II Industrial leadership, of which: 20280 15580 of which 500 for 1. Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies* ~~15580 of which 500 for~~ EIT 2. Access to risk finance** 4000 3. Innovation in SMEs 700 III Societal challenges, of which: 35888 1. Health~~, demographic change~~ and wellbeing; 9077 of which 292 for EIT 2. Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research ~~and the~~, 4694 of which 150 for EIT sustainable tourism, and the bio-economy; 3. Secure, clean and efficient energy 6537 of which 210 for EIT 4. Smart, green and integrated transport 7690 of which 247 for EIT 5. Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials 3573 of which 115 for EIT 6. Inclusive, innovative and secure societies 4317 of which 138 for EIT European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) 1542 + 1652*** Non-nuclear direct actions of the Joint Research Centre 2212 TOTAL 87740 Or. en * Including EUR 8975 million for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of which EUR 1795 million for photonics and micro-and nanoelectronics, EUR 4293 million for nanotechnologies, advanced materials and advanced manufacturing and processing, EUR 575 million for biotechnology and EUR 1737 million for space. As a result, EUR 6663 million will be available to support Key Enabling Technologies. ** Around EUR 1131 million of this amount may go towards the implementation of Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) projects. Around one third of this may go to SMEs. *** The total amount will be made available through allocations as foreseen in Article 6(3). The second allocation of EUR 1652 million shall be made available pro-rata from the budgets of the Societal challenges and Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies, on an indicative basis and subject to the review set out in Article 26(1).

2012/08/28
Committee: TRAN

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2

(2) Nuclear research can contribute to social and economic prosperity and environmental sustainability by improving nuclear safety, security and radiation protection. Equally important is the contribution of nuclear research to the long-term decarbonisation of the energy system in a safe, efficient and secure way.deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4

(4) ~~Notwithstanding the potential impact of nuclear energy on energy supply and economic development, severe nuclear accidents may have the potential to~~Given that nuclear accidents endanger human health~~. Therefore~~, nuclear safety and, where appropriate, security aspects should be given ~~the greatest possible attention~~maximum resources in the Euratom Research and Training Programme.

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) By signing the Agreement on the Establishment of the ITER International Fusion Energy Organisation for the Joint Implementation of the ITER Project, the Community has undertaken to participate in ITER construction and its future exploitation. The Community contribution is managed through the ‘European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy’ (hereinafter ‘Fusion for Energy’), established by Council Decision of 27 March 2007. The activities of Fusion for Energy, including ITER, are to be regulated by a separate legislative act.deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) For fusion to become a credible option for commercial energy production, it is, firstly, necessary to successfully and timely complete the construction of ITER and start its operation. Secondly it is necessary to establish an ambitious, yet realistic roadmap towards the production of electricity by 2050. Reaching those goals requires the European fusion programme to be redirected. A stronger focus should be placed on the activities in support to ITER. Such rationalisation should be achieved without jeopardising the European leadership of the fusion scientific community.deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1

1. The ~~technic~~general objectives of the Euratom Programme shall be to improve nuclear safety, security and radiation protection~~, and to contribute to the long-term decarbonisation of the energy system in a safe, efficient and secure way~~. The general objective shall be implemented through the activities specified in Annex I in the form of direct and indirect actions which pursue the specific objectives set out in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article.

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point e

~~(e) move toward demonstration of feasibility of fusion as a power source by exploiting existing and future fusion facilities;~~deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point f

~~(f) lay the foundations for future fusion power plants by developing materials, technologies and conceptual design;~~deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a

~~(a) indirect actions for the fusion research and development programme, EUR 709.713 million;~~deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b

(b) indirect actions for ~~nuclear fission, safe~~safety, security and radiation protection~~, EUR 354.857~~ in the field of nuclear fission: EUR XXX million;

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c

(c) direct actions: EUR ~~724.319~~XXX million.

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b

~~b) for the fusion-related aspects, by the consultative committee for the fusion programme established in accordance with Council Decision of 16 December 1980.~~deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 1

By achieving the objectives set out in Article 3, the Euratom Programme shall reinforce outcomes under the three priorities of the ´Horizon 2020` Framework Programme: excellent science, industrial leadership, and societal challenges. The Euratom Programme shall in particular support the transition to a reliable, sustainable and competitive energy system in the future, in the face of increasing resource scarcity, growing energy needs and climate change.

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 1 – paragraph 3

The strategy to develop fusion as a credible option for commercial carbon- free energy production shall follow a roadmap with milestones towards the goal of electricity production by 2050. To implement that strategy, a radical restructuring of fusion-related work in the Union, including governance, funding and management, shall be carried out to ensure a shift of emphasis from pure research to designing, building and operating future facilities such as ITER, DEMO and beyond. That shall require a close cooperation between the entire Union fusion community, the Commission and the national funding agencies.deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – point 2.1 – point e

(e) Move toward demonstration of feasibility of fusion as a power source by exploiting existing and future fusion facilities; societal challenges) Support common research activities undertaken by members of the European Fusion Development Agreement to ensure the swift start of high performance operation of ITER including the use of relevant facilities (including JET, the Joint European Torus), of integrated modelling using high performance computers, and training activities to prepare the next generation of researchers and engineers.deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – point 2.1 – point f

(f) Lay the foundations for future fusion power plants by developing materials, technologies and conceptual design; Societal challenges) Support to joint activities undertaken by members of the European Fusion Development Agreement to develop and qualify materials for a demonstration power plant requiring, inter alia, preparatory work for an appropriate material test facility and negotiations for the Union's participation in a suitable international framework for that facility. Support to joint research activities undertaken by members of the European Fusion Development Agreement that shall address reactor operation issues and shall develop and demonstrate all relevant technologies for a fusion demonstration power plant. Those activities include the preparation of a complete demonstration power plant conceptual design(s) and exploration of the potential of stellarators as a power plant technology.deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – point 2.1 – point g – paragraph 3

In the long term, the Euratom Programme shall support the preparation and development of a competitive nuclear fusion industrial sector, in particular through the implementation of a technology road map to a fusion power plant with active industrial involvement in the design and development projects.deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 2 – point 2.1 – point i

(i) European Fusion Development Agreement A grant (Programme co-fund action) shall be awarded to the legal entity that shall be established or designated by members of the European Fusion Development Agreement in order to implement and coordinate their activities. That grant may include resources in kind from the Community, such as scientific and technical exploitation of the JET facility in accordance with Article 10 of the Euratom Treaty, or the secondment of Commission staff.deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 6 – paragraph 2

International cooperation activities shall be promoted through multilateral frameworks (such as IAEA, OECD, ~~ITER,~~and GIF), and by the existing or new bilateral cooperation with countries having strong R&D and industrial bases and research installations under operation, design or construction.

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part 1 – point c – indent 2

~~Number of fellows and trainees in the Euratom fusion programme~~deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part 1 – point e

~~(e) Move toward demonstration of feasibility of fusion as a power source by exploiting existing and future fusion facilities – Number of publications in high impact journals.~~deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part 1 – point f

(f) Lay the foundations for future fusion power plants by developing materials, technologies and conceptual design – percentage of the Fusion Roadmap's milestones established for a period 2014- 2018 reached by the Euratom Programmedeleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part 1 – point g – indent 1

~~Number of spin-offs from the fusion research under Euratom Programme~~deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0400(NLE)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – part 1 – point g – indent 2

~~Patents applications generated by European fusion laboratories~~deleted

2012/07/18
Committee: BUDG

2011/0399(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2

(2) Horizon 2020 should be implemented with a view to contributing directly to creating citizen's welfare, economic development, environmental sustainability, industrial leadership, gpro~~wth~~sperity and employment in Europe and should reflect the strategic vision of the Commission Communication of 6 October 2010 to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Region ‘'Europe 2020 Flagship Initiative Innovation’'6 whereby the Commission engages to radically simplify access of participants.

2012/07/20
Committee: BUDG

2011/0399(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16

(16) The participant Guarantee Fund set up under Regulation No 1906/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 laying down the rules for the participation of undertakings, research centres ~~and universitie~~, universities and civil society organisations in actions under the Seventh Framework Programme and for the dissemination of research results (2007- 2013)14 and managed by the Commission has proved to be an important safeguard mechanism which mitigates the risks associated to the amounts due and not reimbursed by defaulting participants. Therefore, a new participant Guarantee Fund (the Fund) should be established. In order to ensure a more efficient management and a better coverage of participants' risk, the Fund should cover actions under the programme set up under Decision No 1982/2006/EC, under the programme set up by Council Decision of 18 December 2006 concerning the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) for nuclear research and training activities (2007 to 2011)15 , under the programme set up by Council Decision […...] of X 2011 establishing the Framework Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2012-2013) as well as actions under Regulation (EU) No XX/XX [Horizon 2020] and Regulation (Euratom) No XX/XX of the Council on the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2014-2018) complementing the Horizon 2020- the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation [Euratom H2020]16 . Programmes managed by entities other than Union bodies should not be covered by the Fund.

2012/07/20
Committee: BUDG

2011/0399(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10

(10) 'legal entity’' means undertakings, research centres and universities, encompassing any natural person, or any legal person created under national law, Union law or international law, which has legal personality and which may, acting in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; these include non profit-making and civil society organisations;

2012/07/20
Committee: BUDG

2011/0399(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 4

4. The Horizon 2020 grant may reach a maximum of 100 % of the total eligible costs, without prejudice to the co-financing principle, for non profit-making public bodies, secondary and higher education establishments, research organisations and SMEs.

2012/07/20
Committee: BUDG

2011/0384(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1

(1) The Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth assigns a prominent role to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (hereinafter referred to as the EIT) which aims at contributesing to a number of flagship initiatives, in particular the flagships for an Innovation Union and Youth on the Move.

2012/07/19
Committee: BUDG

2011/0384(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)

(6a) The EIT should seek to engage more closely with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to ensure their active participation in the activities of the KICs. Furthermore, public companies and local authorities, as well as non-profit organisations, should be involved in the KICs, as appropriate.

2012/07/19
Committee: BUDG

2011/0384(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 b (new)

(6b) The EIT should promote multi- disciplinary approaches to innovation, including the development of non- technological solutions, organizational approaches, new business models, systems innovation and public sector innovations, as a necessary complement to technology- focused innovation activities.

2012/07/19
Committee: BUDG

2011/0384(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 c (new)

(6c) Social-enterprises being very innovative in nature through the goods or services they offer, their organisation or the production methods they resort to, the promotion of social entrepreneurship activities should be part of EIT and KICs activities.

2012/07/19
Committee: BUDG

2011/0384(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 1 – point c

Regulation (EC) No 294/2008
Article 2 – paragraph 10

10. 'Stakeholder Forum' means a meeting open to representatives of national and regional authorities, organized interests and individual entities from business, higher education, ~~and~~ research, cluster organisations, civil society organisations, as well as other interested parties from across the knowledge triangle.

2012/07/19
Committee: BUDG

2011/0333(CNS)

Draft legislative resolution
Citation 4 a (new)

– having regard to its resolution of 29 March 2007 on the future of the European Union’s own resources1, _______________ 1 OJ C 27 E, 31.1.2008, p. 214

2012/10/04
Committee: BUDG

2011/0333(CNS)

Draft legislative resolution
Citation 4 b (new)

– having regard to its resolution of 8 June 2011 entitled ‘Investing in the future: a new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for a competitive, sustainable and inclusive Europe’1, _______________ 1 Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0266.

2012/10/04
Committee: BUDG