Activities of Carlo FIDANZA related to 2019/2191(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on railway safety and signalling: assessing the state of play of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) deployment
Amendments (24)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. Whereas the deployment of ERTMS should necessarily involve the Decommissioning of Class-B systems installation of the ETCS trackside components along with the widespread retrofit of the rolling stocks with the ERTMS on-board units interoperable sub-systems;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
E b. E b (New). Whereas the decommissioning of Class B systems is moving at a slow pace in the EU, hindering the deployment of ERTMS,and the European Commission should undertake actions to ensure that Member States define a decommissioning target date in their ERTMS National implementation plan (NIPs);
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
E c. Whereas it is of vital importance to create a framework of economic incentives to advance the responsiveness of the Railway undertakings in planning the investments in the retrofit of the rolling stock, while the procedures of authorization and conformity of the OBUs in the Member States should not represent a burden to the RUs investment decision;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
E d. New recital F - Whereas the Recovery and Resilience Facility establishes that 20% of the investments should be digitally oriented and taking into account that in its Methodology for digital tagging set up in Annex VII of the Recovery and Resilience Facility Regulation, ERTMS accounts for 100% digital investment;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that rail is one of the most sustainable and energy-efficient modes of mass transportation, and that rail is not yet achieving its full potential, in spite of theERTMS is indispensable to allow positive developments in the sector, such as thea constant increase in rail passenger volumes and rail freight volumes, even if these have been uneven over the past few years ;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that the European Green Deal calls for a majorsubstantial modal shift to rail and that the new Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy sets the milestones of doubling high-speed rail traffic by 2030 and rail freight traffic by 2050; which will not be achieved without a large scale deployment of ERTMS throughout the EU;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Agrees with the statement of the EC Expert Group Report on the Competitiveness of the European Rail Supply Industry that “coming to light as a collaborative, cross-border project, ERTMS is the flagship of EU industry’s innovative power, successfully conquering markets inside and outside Europe”;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights the role of the ERTMS Coordinator in defining the lines and corridors to be equipped with the ERTMS as a matter of priority, and in ensuring its deployment in the most cost-efficient way in close cooperation with the Member States and the stakeholders;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Believes there is a need for a regulatory framework for the digitalisation of the rail system, and welcomes the contribution of Shift2Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking (S2R ERJU); strongly supports its new successor initiative, the system pillar initiative, which coordinates the evolution of the system, new technology developments, migration plans, industrialisation and deployment, especially for the ERTMS, with a view to contributing to more efficient collaboration and better use of scarce resources;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Regrets that compared with the targets set, at the end of 2020 only around 13 % of the core network corridors were operated with the ERTMS, and ERTMS deployment in most of the corridors ranged between 7 % and 28 %, and reminds that the slow pace of the trackside installation represents also a major disincentive to a steady deployment of OBUs;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Points out that there are still currently roughly 30 different national signalling systems; highlights that the Class B systems are a bottleneck for the ERTMS rollout and for rail traffic cross- border operations of rail traffic inin the European network, requir as they cause a more expensive and difficult safety authorisation for operators, and are arail transport operators, and constitute a major barrier to the competitiveness of the rail transport;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Calls on the European Commission, the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) and the Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking to put ERTMS at the heart of a digital rail system evolution and create a truly smart transport system;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to come up with a decommissioning strategy for Class B systems with regulatory binding deadlines to be set at EU level; believes that the effectiveness of this strategy depends on the involvement of the actors concerned;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Reiterates that the European Commission should take action to ensure that a large-scale deployment plan for ERTMS, both at the national and at the European level, foresees as fundamental requirements the twofold objective of the trackside installation with ETCS systems, involving the balises, the interlockings, the digitalization of the stations and the decommissioning of class-B systems at a foreseeable date, along with an ambitious plan for the retrofitting of the rolling stock with ERTMS on board units, ensuring that a so-called dual-on-board strategy is incorporated, at least during a transitional stage;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Deplores the fact that in the five years till mid-2019 almost 80 % of new vehicles introduced in Europe were either subject to a derogation or were exempted from the requirement to fit the ERTMS, and urges the Commission to take concrete initiatives to reverse this trend by enacting an appropriate regulatory framework and ensuring that a set of economic incentives are in place to foster the investments of the RUs on ERTMS on Board Units;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses that the timeframe of conformity-to-type authorisation processes for retrofit projects still differ because of diverging assessmentsat the national level may represent a burden because of the lengthy time requirements applied by the National Security Agencies (NSAs) on the need to re- authorise certain modifications; calls on the Commission to ensrolling stock for the sole national area of use, which may run up until one month to re-autorise on each rolling stock1a. Therefore, urges the Commission to take legislative action to ensure that conformity-to-type checks at the national level are streamlined by means of fast- tracked control operations - in line with the performance indicators adopted by ERA on the conformity-to-type operations for the extended area of use of the rolling stock - and that the time to grant conformity-to-type certificates is reduced. _________________ 1a The Implementing Regulation 545/2018 on Vehicle authorization at the article 34.1 and 34.2 states that on conformity to type procedures that the authorisation procedures following type authorisation processes are streamlined by means of fast-tracked control operations;e authorising entity and the concerned NSAs for the relevant area of use shall verify the completeness of the information and documentation provided by the applicant within one month following the date of the receipt of the application. Consequently, the time span of one month is entirely used by the NSAs to carry out the on-board controls on vehicles for the national area of use, while causing the need to keep every vehicle completely stationary for one month while the conformity-to-type controls on board are carried-out. This represent an evident major hurdle to a large-scale deployment plan on a rolling- stock fleet for the railway undertakings and the legislative action would be urgently required to cut the time frame allowed for the procedure to a maximum of two weeks.
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Reminds the Commission the importance to defining an encompassing strategy that includes the objective to achieve a simplified and time-efficient authorizing process involving also the conformity-to type controls operated on rolling stocks for the national area of use;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Underlines the current inefficiencies in public procurement for ERTMS deployment; calls on the Commission to work with the Agency to establish a common EU tender format for procurements, based on the idea agreed by the sector in 2018, and to address in a legislative proposal all the technical aspects for ensuring successful procurement (e.g. maintenance clauses, compliance with the latest ERTMS baseline available);
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Calls on the European Commission to use EU’s bilateral cooperations to promote the deployment of ERTMS within third countries;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. Reminds the strategic importance of Next Generation EU and of the RRF in supporting ambitious large scale deployment plan for ERTMS in the National Recovery and Resilience Plans of the Member States, and invites the Commission to ensure that ERTMS funding is granted adequate relevance during the preparatory phase of the NRRPs;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23 b. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the opportunity to grant ERTMS strategic projects under the CEF funding a co-financing factor even higher than 50% when such projects are embedded in ambitious large-scale accelerated plans to scale-up the ERTMS deployment, in order to incentivize ambitious strategies for ERTMS in the Member States;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23 c. Recalls that ERTMS deployment on the TEN-T Core Network is expected to represent a total amount of investment needs of at least EUR 12 billion and at least EUR 5 billion for on-board deployment;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Recalls that EU funds are not sufficient to cover all the expected needs. and therefore calls on the Commission and Member States to cooperate closely to further improve the attractiveness of investing in the ERTMS, and to guarantee legal certainty for private investors. Particularly, in the case of CEF grants for ERTMS, it calls for the duration of the grants agreements to be extended to better reflect and match the cycles related to public procurement procedures;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Stresses the importance of the key opportunity of using funding under the Recovery and Resilience Facility to advance on ERTMS deployment. In this sense, calls on the European Commission to make sure that Member States include ERTMS related investments in their National Recovery Plans;