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2008/09/04
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T6-0409/2008
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The European Parliament adopted by 541 votes to 6, with 15 abstentions, a resolution on freight transport in Europe, in response to four European Commission communications on ‘The EU's freight transport agenda: Boosting the efficiency, integration and sustainability of freight transport in Europe’.The own initiative report had been tabled for consideration in plenary by Michael CRAMER (Greens/EFA, DE) on behalf of the Committee on Transport and Tourism.Challenges of integration and sustainability: the resolution stresses that Europe's freight transport systems must meet pressing challenges to increase effective integration and sustainability of freight transport in Europe, making a greater contribution to improving mobility, energy efficiency, reducing oil consumption, polluting emissions, and external costs. MEPs encourage the Commission, the Member States and industry to support in future a freight transport policy which is more sustainable in terms of mobility, the environment, climate, the economy, security and social interests, by promoting the use of more efficient logistics systems and the user and polluter pays principles for all modes of transport.Strengthening cooperation: noting that the EU’s powers and resources for improving freight transport markets are limited, MEPs call on Transport Ministers responsible for the main European Corridors to take up the issue of infrastructure investments and at least agree on coordinating their National Investment Plans in relation to their respective corridors. Furthermore, MEPs suggest that the Commission proposes, no later than the end of 2008, a programme for strengthening cooperation between the Member States responsible for projects in the area of urban freight transport, and that it facilitates and assesses solutions to the current blockages, with particular attention to goods transport.Green corridors: MEPs look to the Commission to define the 'green corridors' as exemplary mobility and inter-modality projects, to shift to environmentally friendly modes to reduce overall accidents, congestion, noise, local toxic and non-toxic pollution, CO2 emissions, landscape and energy consumption and to increase the use of renewable sources and the intelligent transport systems. The Commission and Member States are called upon to offer stronger incentives to boost the environmental performance of all modes of transport and to support the most efficient combinations of these modes of transport. MEPs stress that the rail freight network should be based on the most ‘market-relevant’ freight corridors.Interoperability: the resolution also stresses the utmost importance of interoperable road charging for efficient freight transport in Europe. The Commission is invited, in multi-annual contracts for rail infrastructure quality, to draw up framework conditions for minimum quality standards throughout Europe. MEPs stress the importance of quickly adopting a worldwide standard for intermodal loading units. They also call on the Commission to support projects concerning the differential use of high-speed lines e.g. for light freight transport.Simplify administration: in order to improve the transport system, the resolution stresses the need to standardise and to simplify the administrative procedures of the authorities involved in the freight transport market, together with simplified customs rules and procedures at borders. MEPs welcome the decision to establish a European maritime space without barriers and urge the Commission to ask the appropriate international associations and organisations to develop a single intermodal document.Logistic training: MEPs call on the Member States to give absolute priority to higher education and further education in the logistic and freight transport sector.
- 2008/09/03 Debate in Parliament
- 2008/07/28 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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2008/07/15
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2008/01/17
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2007/10/18
Non-legislative basic document published
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COM(2007)0606
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PURPOSE: to set out an agenda for the EU’s freight transport system.CONTENT: freight transport is fundamental to the EU’s competitiveness. Well organised freight transport contributes to sustainable and energy efficient operations and strengthens cohesion by enabling businesses across the EU to reach peripheral regions. The mid-term review of the 2001 White Paper on transport forecast a 50% growth of freight transport in terms of tkm between 2000 and 2020. This alone raises a number of important challenges including:road congestion, which negatively affects costs, time and fuel consumption;the need to reduce pollutant emissions and noise;a high dependency on imported fossil fuels;the needs to offer high safety and security standards; andthe need to recruit well qualified and well trained staff.To address these challenges, the European Commission is launching, simultaneously, a series of policy initiatives that coincide with last year’s mid-term review of the 2001 White Paper on transport. They are:The Fright Logistics Plan: This sets out a series of actions to promote freight and traffic management in a sustainable manner, the simplification of administrative processes, and a review of loading standards with a view to reviewing Directive 96/53/EC on vehicle dimensions and weights.A Communication of freight-oriented rail networks: This report examines ways in which to make rail freight more competitive by, in particular, ensuring lower transit times and increasing rail’s reliability and responsiveness to customer requirements.A Communication on a European Ports Policy (seeINI/2008/2007): This report provides a vision and a toolbox for enhancing the performance of ports as essential hubs in Europe’s overall transport system.A Commission staff working paper “Towards a European maritime transport space without barriers”: This paper will kick-start a consultation process on allowing short sea shipping to benefit fully from the EU’s internal market.A staff working paper on “Motorways of the Sea”: This describes progress made in developing the Motorways of the Sea and sets out future quality elements.Particular attention is given to:“Green” corridors: It is essential that various transport modes, as well as the corridors themselves, are combined allowing freight transport to offer seamless door-to-door services. “Green” corridors should be characterised by a low human and environmental impact. Indeed, rail and waterborne transport modes will be essential components of these green corridors.Infrastructure, means of transport and freight management: Present and future strategies will focus on the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) and the development of strategically significant trans-national corridors. Other elements include the efficient use of available facilities. The removal of operational and commercial barriers that currently obstruct access to the infrastructure will also be sought.Simplification: Particular attention will be given to the use of multi-modal transport chains and a single interface point for administrative requirements in freight.Quality: Rail, in particular, will need to improve its performance and waterborne transport modes requires enhancement.To improve the efficiency and sustainability of freight transport, the authorities have to create the appropriate framework conditions and support the trend towards co-modality and sustainability. This includes adopting appropriate legislative measures, mandating technical standardisation, providing political and financial support and encouraging the promotion of best practices.The set of policy initiatives introduced in this report point the way to a European freight transport policy that is based on co-modality, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), green corridors and user orientation.Co-modality: this requires improving the efficiency, inter-operability and inter-connectivity of rail, maritime, inland waterway transport, air, road transport and related hubs in order to arrive at a fully integrated transport system offering a door-to-door service.Intelligent Transport Systems: this offers a means with which to improve transport and cargo management and increase the utilisation of the available infrastructure.
- DG Energy and Transport, TAJANI Antonio
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COM(2007)0606
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2007)0606
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A6-0326/2008
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0409/2008
Amendments | Dossier |
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2008/2008(INI)
2008/06/10
TRAN
72 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 6 a (new) - Having regard to its resolution of .. July 2008 'Towards a new culture of urban mobility',
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas the European corridor network should be better developed, starting from the existing network and existing structures and technologies such as the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS), and should also incorporate ‘green’ corridors with ambitious sustainable environmental, mobility- enhancing and obstacle-removing criteria,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas the European corridor network should be better developed, starting from existing structures and technologies
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas the aim of the EU Freight Logistics Action Plan must be to facilitate freight transport operations in Europe and beyond for the benefit of all European companies and for European competitiveness as a whole,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that Europe's freight transport systems must meet pressing challenges
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that Europe's freight transport systems must meet pressing challenges if they are to make a greater contribution to improving reducing external costs, oil consumption and CO2 emissions, and therefore welcomes the above-mentioned Commission communications and Council conclusions; encourages the Commission, the Member States and industry to support in future a freight transport policy which is more sustainable in terms of mobility, for the environment, the climate, the economy, security and social interests, by promoting the use, in an enlarged European Union, of more efficient logistics systems as part of the gradual integration of priority cross- border rail freight corridors, hubs and conventional networks;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that Europe's freight transport systems must meet pressing challenges if they are to make a greater contribution to reducing external costs, oil consumption and CO2 emissions, and therefore welcomes the above-mentioned Commission communications and Council
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that Europe's freight transport systems must meet pressing challenges if they are to make a greater contribution to
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Supports the view of the Commission that co-modality and intermodality remain key factors in creating sustainable and efficient freight transport in Europe;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Notes, however, that the European Union
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2.
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas the transport sector is responsible for almost 30% of CO2 emissions in the European Union – as much as 40% in cities – and despite the efforts made in respect of technical improvement and innovation, grew by 26% between 1990 and 2005, while investments running into EUR billions have enabled CO2 emissions in other sectors to be cut by 10%,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2a (new) 2a. Is convinced that urban freight logistics require a specific approach; hopes that the debate on the Green Paper on Urban Mobility together with this action plan can result in an exchange of good practices between towns in order to find sustainable ways of transporting supplies to towns;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Suggests, therefore, that the Commission designate, no later than the end of 2008, ten of the most important cross-border corridors and ten of the worst bottlenecks, and propose concrete potential solutions, in which connection it should devote special attention to the maximum use of the existing ERTMS corridors, while additional corridors can be derived from the corridors as defined by RailNetEurope;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Suggests, therefore, that the Commission
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Suggests, therefore, that the Commission designate, no later than the end of 2008, ten of the most important cross-border
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Suggests, therefore, that the Commission designate, no later than the end of 2008, ten of the most important cross-border journeys within the corridors and ten of the worst bottlenecks, and propose concrete potential solutions;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Supports the idea that dedicated goods transport networks, which should exploit existing conventional traffic networks which are being freed-up as a result of the progress made with high-speed trains;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the rail freight network should be based on the
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the rail freight network should be based on the
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the rail freight network should be based on the existing and future
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas sustainable and efficient freight transport in Europe plays a vital role in having a successful and competitive economy, in meeting consumer demands and in creating a considerable number of jobs and wealth for European citizens,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Looks to the Commission to define the ‘green corridors’ as
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Looks to the Commission to define the 'green corridors' as pilot projects to reduce accidents, noise,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Looks to the Commission to define the
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Looks to the Commission to define the 'green corridors' as intermodal freight pilot projects to reduce overall accidents, noise, local air pollution, CO2 emissions, landscape and energy consumption and the use of renewable energy sources (particularly wind and solar energy) in accordance with EU legislation and its objectives;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Proposes that Member States should use a zone-by-zone noise survey to determine the upper limits by day and night along freight lines and to enforce noise emission limits by means of strict controls;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Proposes that support be given to the integration of regional planning, production processes and market structures – including the avoidance of unnecessary transport – and to shortening distances and adjusting speeds in freight transport; takes the view that time-consuming and energy-
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Regards it as a priority to improve
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Regards it as a priority to promote modal shift towards the safest modes of transport and to improve supervision/checking of logistics for the transport of hazardous
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Urges the Commission and Member States to press forward with a selection of pilot freight logistics projects to act as a role model in sensitive cross-border areas (mountainous areas and conurbations), as well as in cities, taking account of the recommendations included in Parliament Resolution on urban mobility and of the experience gained from the CIVITAS programme, by enhancing the logistics aspect;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas freight transport is expected to grow by some 50% (in tonne-kilometres (tkm)) between 2000 and 2020, in line with forecasts in the White Paper 'European transport policy for 2010: time to decide' (COM(2001)0370), and whereas it has already grown some 30% faster than GDP between 1995 and 2005; whereas, furthermore, growth in freight transport as a whole has mainly been
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Urges the Commission and Member States to press forward with
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission to concentrate EU co-financing on the efficiency and interoperability of conventional rail infrastructure and intermodal hubs - coastal shipping and inland waterways, railways, roads and air transport
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission to concentrate EU co-financing on the efficiency and interoperability of
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission to concentrate EU co-financing on the efficiency
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission to concentrate EU co-financing on the efficiency and interoperability of
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission to concentrate EU co-financing on the efficiency
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls also on the Commission and Member States, pending the overhaul of the European Union's budget anticipated for 2009, already to consider the position of transport in that budget, in order to avoid any repetition of past errors and ensure sufficient future investment in strategic infrastructure to attain the objectives which the Union has set for itself with regard to sustainable development and emission reduction;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Stresses the utmost importance of interoperable road charging for efficient freight transport in Europe;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas solutions aimed at more sustainable and efficient logistics and rail freight transport systems and at intermodal integration of all modes of transport not only lead to improvements in the economy and in security, but also meet the EU’s objectives in the fields of climate change and energy savings by 2020,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11.
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11.
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Is convinced of the potential of inland waterways regarding freight transport and urges the Commission to ensure a proper implementation of the NAIADES action programme;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Stresses that investments in hinterland terminals can be put into effect flexibly and rapidly
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Recalls that compliance with, and/or introduction of, stable intermodal standards for the dimensions and weight of vehicles, containers and loading equipment, are of strategic importance
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13.
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Notes that various horizontal techniques which would help simplify the transfer of freight not only from lorries to rail but also between differing rail gauges are often insufficiently standardised; therefore urges the international and European bodies to standardise these technologies in particular with a view to greater efficiency and cost reduction; believes that it is essential to deal with the specific and varied needs of goods transport users, in view of the growing demand from outwith the EU for standardisation, with all the attendant adverse effects (safety, CO2 emissions);
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Notes that various horizontal techniques which would help simplify the transfer of freight not only from lorries to rail but also between differing rail gauges are often insufficiently standardised; therefore urges the international and European bodies to standardise these technologies in particular with a view to greater efficiency and cost reduction; stresses in this connection the importance of quickly adopting a European standard for intermodal loading units;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15.
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Calls on the Commission to draft its guidelines for environmental and railway subsidies in such a way as to simplify investments in sustainable rail freight transport; stresses in this connection the strategic importance of unrestricted co- financing of noise reduction, including at source (retrofitting of goods trucks), such as already exists for the fitting of rolling stock with ERTMS;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas solutions aimed at more sustainable and efficient logistics
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Is convinced that infrastructure management and the provision of services must take place on a cross-
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the Commission
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls on the Commission, in multi-
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Calls on the Commission to support projects concerning the differential use of high-speed lines e.g. for light freight transports;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 18 18. Urges the Commission to collate, co- ordinate and ensure the interoperability of existing software programmes for accident management and/or rail access dispute settlement; looks for a sensitive, flexible, efficient, sustainable and pragmatic solution to the issue of priority rules for passenger and freight
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20.
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Stresses that standardising and simplifying the administration of the authorities involved in the freight transport market, together with simplified customs rules and procedures at borders is bound to lead to greater efficiency of freight transport logistics; urges the Commission to develop a single intermodal European freight document;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 20. Stresses that standardising and simplifying the administration of the authorities involved in the freight transport market, together with simplified customs rules and procedures at borders is bound to lead to greater efficiency of freight transport logistics; urges the Commission to ask the appropriate associations and organisations to develop a single intermodal
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas solutions aimed at more sustainable and efficient logistics and
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21.
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 21.
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 a (new) 21a. Urges the Commission to support projects and research and work towards standard information flows to ensure the integration and interoperability of modes at data level;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas, in order to meet these challenges, the European Union and the Member States should, in a context of inadequate budgetary resources, set themselves specific coordinated priorities, concentrate their resources on a limited number of measures favouring sustainability and intermodality in freight transport, and take account of sensitive regions.
source: PE-407.636
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