2022/2022(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Motion for a resolution
Citation -1 (new)

-1 having regard to the Green Deal and subsequent ‘Fit for 55’ package and the clear aim to end fossil fuel dependence in transport

Amendment 10 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas High-Speed Rail is the holistic solution for the traditional transport challenges, i.e. fatalities, congestion and emissions, unlike other transport modes, e.g. airplane and car, who do not tackle multiple transport challenges;

Amendment 100 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Supports the Commission’s focus on the completion of first/last mile multimodal hubs in ~~cities with more than 100 000 inhabitant~~urban nodes, thereby strengthening rail connectivity with air, sea and road transport;

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Notes that the transformation of stations in service centres and of interchanges between trains and other modes of transport has been under way for a few years; invites the Commission to reinforce the strategic role of railway stations within an integrated and sustainable mobility system, in particular by supporting the modernisation of stations in small centres that are always less populated, through the digital connections that are essential to encourage the use of rail;

Amendment 102 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3

Sufficient rolling stock ~~availability~~

Amendment 103 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls to strengthen the ERA in her role of certifying and authorising rolling stock in order to ensure smooth and timely processes in particular for cross- border relations, as well as consolidating and reducing the number of national rules; furthermore, encourages both ERA and member states to speed-up their collaboration on the ‘go-everywhere’ rolling stock specifications;

Amendment 104 #

Annalisa TARDINO, Marco CAMPOMENOSI, Paolo BORCHIA, Massimo CASANOVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls for the clarification of State aid rules on the public funding of new and environmentally friendly interoperable rolling stock for cross-border services ~~in the revised Railway Guidelines~~and related service facilities and rail infrastructure in the revised Railway Guidelines; available instruments for financing such vehicles and the implementation of the Luxembourg Protocol;

Amendment 105 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls for the clarification and simplification of State aid rules on the public funding of interoperable rolling stock for cross-border services in the revised Railway Guidelines;

Amendment 106 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Lucia VUOLO, Barbara THALER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls for the clarification and simplification of State aid rules on the public funding of interoperable rolling stock for cross-border services in the revised Railway Guidelines;

Amendment 107 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls for the clarification and simplification of State aid rules on the public funding of interoperable rolling stock for cross-border services in the revised Railway Guidelines;

Amendment 108 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls for the ~~clarific~~relaxation of State aid rules on ~~the~~ public funding ~~of interoperable rolling stock for cross- border services in the revised Railway Guidelin~~in the rail sector, including for the improvement of cross- border services;

Amendment 109 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on railway companies to plan sufficient orders of high-speed rolling stock, in line with the Commission’s goals to double high-speed by 2040; equally the rolling stock for night trains services needs timely planning in order to facilitate the renaissance of night trains; furthermore sufficient availability of rolling stock for the forthcoming planned reinstatement of regional cross-border rail links needs to be anticipated;

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas EU airports are experiencing a significant increase in delays18a, and a significant capacity shortage is foreseen as there will not be enough capacity for around 1.5 million flights by 204010a; _________________ 10a https://www.eurocontrol.int/press- release/european-aviation-facing-serious- capacity-challenges-now-and-future 18a https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/fi les/2020-01/eurocontrol-nm-user-forum- 2020-airport-perspective-schiphol.pdf

Amendment 110 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Maintains that greater and better safety of track should be matched by an equivalent level of technological and mechanical safety of the trains used every day to transport people and goods;

Amendment 111 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12b. In view of its stated intentions, to encourage the Commission to further study and assess the possibility to establish a European rolling stock pool and to continue discussions on how to implement this with the EIB;

Amendment 112 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Emphasises the need for clear interoperable standards and further investments in rolling stock; reminds the Council's conclusions of 3 June 20211a stating that major investment by the sector in international long-distance rolling stock is required, particularly from private sector and reminding Member States of the existence of international agreements and treaties which facilitate private investment, such as the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention; _________________ 1a Council's conclusions of 3 June 2021 "Putting Rail at the Forefront of Smart and Sustainable Mobility", Section V, Networks, investment and connectivity, point 38.

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Emphasises the need for clear interoperable standards and further investments in rolling stock; underlines that such investments are particularly critical when the rolling stock is retrofitted with multisystem applications necessary to enable cross-border and international operations in more than one country;

Amendment 114 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Emphasises the need ~~for~~to ensure clear interoperable standards and further investments in ~~rolling stock~~new and environmentally friendly rolling stock related service facilities and railway infrastructure;

Amendment 115 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Lucia VUOLO, Barbara THALER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Emphasises the need for ~~clear interoperable standards and further~~further investments in rolling stock, bearing in mind the long-standing lack of national investments in ~~rolling stock~~this area;

Amendment 116 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Emphasises the need for clear interoperable requirements and standards and further investments in rolling stock;

Amendment 117 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Emphasises the need for clear interoperable s~~tandard~~pecifications and further investments in rolling stock;

Amendment 118 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Reminds that the Green Rail Investment Platform recently launched by the European Investment Bank (EIB) is a key initiative to support and boost public and private investment in rail projects; encourages rail operators, infrastructure managers, transport authorities and other stakeholders to access the platform in order to address specific market needs and boost opportunities to finance innovation, climate action and digitalisation in rail transport, including infrastructure projects as well as rolling stock and automation;

Amendment 119 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Regrets that the preparation of the "go-everywhere” rolling stock specifications is moved to the next Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI)15a revision leading to a delay of 3 years, urges the Member States to prioritise the cooperation with the Agency for Railways (ERA) to give a boost to the elaboration of the “go- everywhere” rolling stock specifications; _________________ 15a The Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSIs) define the technical and operational standards to ensure the interoperability of the railway system of the European Union. The TSI for telematics applications subsystem (TAP) concerns applications for passenger services, including systems providing passengers with information before and during the journey, reservation and payment systems, luggage management and management of connections between trains and with other modes of transport

Amendment 12 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas High-Speed Rail has a positive economic impact in terms of , e.g. accessibility and travel time saving, and studies referred to an average GDP increase of 8.5% in the case of Cologne- Frankfurt connection11a; _________________ 11a Gabriel M Ahlfeldt, Arne Feddersen, From periphery to core: measuring agglomeration effects using high-speed rail, Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2018, Pages 355–390

Amendment 120 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls for the support of SMEs and micro-businesses by fostering innovative initiatives and highlights the importance of taking into consideration local, regional and national needs, in order to strengthen and stimulate the business environment for SMEs and to link it with the new industrial policy at EU level;

Amendment 121 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls on the Commission to monitor the implementation of bicycle carriage in cross-border passenger trains as foreseen in the passenger rights regulation and to assess whether further legislative action is required;

Amendment 122 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Lucia VUOLO, Barbara THALER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Considers that investment is urgently needed in national capacities to build and repair rolling stock;

Amendment 123 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses that the lack of harmonisation of the certification of train drivers may hamper their mobility between Member States and the development of long-distance passenger services; furthermore highlights the need to agree on a single EU-wide working language, namely English, for train drivers operating long distance and cross border passenger rail connections;

Amendment 124 #

Annalisa TARDINO, Marco CAMPOMENOSI, Paolo BORCHIA, Massimo CASANOVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses th~~at the lack of~~e need for harmonisation of the certification of train drivers ~~may hamper~~to improve their mobility between Member States and the development of long- distance passenger services, particularly in cross-border sections;

Amendment 125 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Takes note of the importance of the language issue for train drivers involved in cross-border journeys, and calls on the Commission to promote the development of digital language tools, as an affordable solution to help with language obstacles and to bridge the existing gaps;

Amendment 126 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on the Commission to support further development and deployment of digital tools, that are already being tested, to bridge the gaps of language of train drivers crossing borders and to offer a viable solution in the future to help with language barriers;

Amendment 127 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Stresses the importance of a clear European skills strategy to remove the persistence of technical and operational barriers which hinder cross-border traffic and increase costs and to train “go- everywhere” train drivers;

Amendment 128 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Stresses the relevance of the New Industrial Strategy for Europe in supportsing the reskilling and upskilling of train drivers, ~~but stresses the importance of ensuring occu~~and to promote encouragement and in promoting and encouraging motivation in education and training, parti~~onal leve~~cularly in new digital skills, and equal opportunities for all;

Amendment 129 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Recalls that Directive (EU) 798/2016 provides for the special certification of staff accompanying trains; considers that qualified staff are necessary not just to improve the rail service but especially to ensure the safety of all aspects of rail transport; invites the European Commission to support the training of qualified staff so that they have the skills for cross-border as well as national transport;

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas High-Speed Rail projects have a significant positive impact on employment opportunities, directly and indirectly;

Amendment 130 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Considers that, where rail operators and authorities responsible for cross-border connections identify the need for language training for workers in the sector, it must be free for workers to acquire those skills, which must be strictly proportional to operational needs and technical and safety standards;

Amendment 131 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Supports the training of rail staff in other languages to ensure equal treatment and minimum quality levels for all categories of passenger, including for foreign travellers;

Amendment 132 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls for further efforts to encourage women into professions in the rail sector, particularly as women represent only about 20% of the work force and staff shortages already exist and are projected to increase;

Amendment 133 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Highlights that joining the "European Alliance for Apprenticeships" could be key for railway undertakings to equipping young people with skills and knowledge matching the current and future needs of the rail sector;

Amendment 134 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Insists on the importance of providing support to SMEs for upskilling the sector’s workforce with a specific focus on digital skills and innovative technologies;

Amendment 135 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Stresses that cross-border operations must not contribute to social dumping; emphasises that the mobility of cross-border staff must not be used as a way of downgrading working conditions, particularly through subcontracting; calls, therefore, for the upskilling of workers in the rail sector, and for improvements in their wages and labour protection, in particular by using open- ended contracts and promoting collective labour agreements;

Amendment 136 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Stresses the importance of ensuring improved use of the network and calls for measures to smooth passenger flow, including establishing transit and terminal nodes along ~~high-speed routes~~backbone routes. On lines with mixed traffic, these steps require close cooperation in the development of passenger and freight measures to prevent bottlenecks and congestion that undermine the performance of the whole network;

Amendment 137 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Stresses the importance of ensuring improved use of the network effects and calls for measures to smooth passenger flow, including establishing transit and terminal nodes ~~alo~~both within the different segments of the rail sector including high- speed routes and within different transport modes;

Amendment 138 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Stresses the importance of ensuring improved use of the network, especially along the TEN-T, and calls for measures to smooth passenger flow, and to enhance the attractiveness of Night Trains, including establishing transit and terminal nodes along high-speed routes;

Amendment 139 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Considers urban hubs vital to ensure connectivity also for neighbouring and rural areas; welcomes the fact that the revision of the TEN-T regulation focused its actions on this sector and invites the Commission to promote multimodality and transport interconnectivity by actively supporting multimodal ticketing;

Amendment 14 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)

Ae. whereas the High-Speed Rail passenger volumes nearly doubled between 2001 and 2018 proving that there is a demand for High-Speed Rail whenever it is provided12a; _________________ 12a Statistical pocketbook 2021 (europa.eu)

Amendment 140 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Member States to establish an open market and fair competition among the rail service providers that leads to improved performance of the public service provider and better prices and quality of the service for the passenger16a; _________________ 16a NTV-Italo : seven years and now success (https://mediarail.wordpress.com/ntv- italo-seven-years-and-now-success/)

Amendment 141 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Highlights that for an efficient use of the network, the availability of capacity and an absence of bottlenecks is key in order to increase the modal share of rail;

Amendment 142 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Encourages the Commission to use the ‘connectivity index’, she is currently developing, for the precise identification of necessary infrastructure investment that is needed to secure the network effect;

Amendment 143 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Calls on the Commission to establish a single European HSR network that connects all capital cities. Thus improving connectivity, economy, cohesion and freedom of movement for all;

Amendment 144 #

Annalisa TARDINO, Marco CAMPOMENOSI, Paolo BORCHIA, Massimo CASANOVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)

16 c. Highlights that funding needs to be made more predictable for infrastructure development so that there are fewer temporary capacity restrictions and higher reliability in international rail; calls on Member States to provide multi- annual financing to their infrastructure managers, as this allows planned and internationally coordinated infrastructure maintenance and development over a period of several years;

Amendment 145 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Highlights the role of digitalisation and better coordination, in particular for cross-border rail traffic; in this regard, stresses the need to achieve better coordination in the way that capacity is managed across Member States’ networks, with a view to improve the utilisation of available capacity; therefore calls for greater harmonisation of procedures and criteria for capacity planning and allocation, as well as full interoperability of digital tools;

Amendment 146 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Highlights the role of digitalisation and better coordination, in particular for cross-border rail traffic; asks the Commission to consider the creation of a Union-level entity that oversees the optimisation of cross-border rail traffic and coordination mechanisms for its better integration to the national traffic and consequently, for more efficient management of rail capacity for both passenger and freight trains;

Amendment 147 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Lucia VUOLO, Barbara THALER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Highlights the role of digitalisation and better and timely coordination~~, in particular for~~ of infrastructure administrators with carriers to better coordinate construction works that have a major impact on operations and reliability in cross-border rail traffic;

Amendment 148 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Highlights the role of digitalisation, the need for adequate cybersecurity and better coordination, in particular for cross- border rail traffic;

Amendment 149 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Highlights the role of digitalisation, the need for cybersecurity and better coordination, in particular for cross-border rail traffic;

Amendment 15 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Recital A f (new)

Af. Whereas the EU is about creating peace on the EU continent and a joint concrete and tangible project, such as a European HSR network, of which citizens directly experience the added value can contribute to this;

Amendment 150 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Highlights the role of digitalisation, cybersecurity and better coordination, in particular for cross-border rail traffic;

Amendment 151 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Emphasises that track access charging is the relevant revenue stream for Infrastructure Managers and it has to be economically viable for the Infrastructure Managers and provide the possibility to steer market demand.

Amendment 152 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Underlines the usefulness of the rail connectivity index for assessing the state of the network and targeting investments according to objective criteria;

Amendment 153 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Insists on the need to improve the provision of more efficient cross-border track allocation;

Amendment 154 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6

~~Appropriate pricing for track access~~deleted

Amendment 155 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the Commission’s upcoming plans to publish guidelines for setting track access charges and to promote pilot projects to explore the impact of reduced track access charges on the set-up of cross-border services;

Amendment 156 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Barbara THALER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the Commission’s upcoming plans to publish guidelines for setting track access charges but calls for a reduction of charges to not more than the direct cost ;

Amendment 157 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Barbara THALER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. ~~Welcomes the Commission’s upcoming plans to publish gui~~Stresses that infrastructure must be managed in line with criteria delfine~~s for setting track access charges~~d by the Member States, including with regard to track use and the need for investment in infrastructure;

Amendment 158 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Reiterates the importance of track access charges, notably in terms of mark- ups, as a decisive cost factor that impacts the competitiveness of rail as opposed to other transport modes; possibly hindering the setting up of new services such as night trains; calls on the Commission to suggest in the upcoming Guidelines recommendations for a consistent Europe-wide category of infrastructure charges for night trains.

Amendment 159 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

~~19. Stresses the importance of setting fair and appropriate pricing for all operators, while ensuring that infrastructure networks are adequately funded;~~deleted

Amendment 16 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas ~~important legislative steps have been taken towards the completion of the single European railway area~~the four railway packages designed by the European Union to complete a single European railway area – advocating the liberalisation and commercialisation of the sector – have resulted in the closure of around 6 000 km of track (not just in the EU, but also in the UK, Norway and Switzerland), disinvestment in the railways (compared with other transport sectors), withdrawal of most night trains, loss of passengers and job destruction in the sector;

Amendment 160 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Stresses the importance of setting ~~fair and appropriate pricing for all operators, while ensuring~~a competitive framework amongst transport modes that ensures fair and efficient pricing for all operators, that ensures the internalisation of all external costs of all modes and leads to market prices that clearly indicate the best socio-economic and environmental choice; it is paramount to ensure that infrastructure networks are adequately funded;

Amendment 161 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Stresses the importance of ~~setting~~ fair and appropriate track access pricing for all operators, while ensuring that infrastructure networks are adequately funded;

Amendment 162 #

19a. Calls for an assessment of the impact of liberalising and vertically separating rail management and operation, as promoted by EU policies, which should particularly focus on the reduction in rail networks and services, and the decline in the rail offer and its quality;

Amendment 163 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Emphasises the significant unpredictable fluctuation of infrastructure charges which makes business planning problematic, reminds that one of the calculation for track charges is based on scarcity which is caused by the lack of sufficient infrastructure capacity17a; _________________ 17a Long-distance cross-border passenger rail services - Commission Study (MOVE/2020/OP/0013)

Amendment 164 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Barbara THALER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Highlights that the track access charging is the primary revenue stream for Infrastructure Managers and it has to be economically viable for the Infrastructure Managers and provide the possibility to steer market demand.

Amendment 165 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Acknowledges that making long- distance rail passenger services more attractive requires more accessible smart ticketing ~~and appropriate protection for passengers in the event of delays or missed connections for single options and~~with impartial ticket retail - meaning all rail operators' tickets are sold at all ticket channels, both at independent ticket vendors as well as the in-house ticket vendors of the state-owned rail incumbents and appropriate protection for passengers in the event of delays or missed connections, regardless whether they have booked a combined journey of separate tickets in the same one-way travel chain booking (when a through ticket is not available) or a through tickets itself, ensuring, as a minimum, journey continuation;

Amendment 166 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Acknowledges that making long- distance rail passenger services more attractive requires more accessible smart ticketing and appropriate protection for passengers in the event of delays or missed connections for single options and through tickets, ensuring, as a minimum, journey continuation; further highlights the needed cooperation between railway undertakings and ticket vendors to develop a sector standard for ticket distribution, exchanging data under FRAND conditions based on commercial agreements and preventing the establishment of gatekeepers;

Amendment 167 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Acknowledges that making long- distance rail passenger services more attractive requires more accessible ~~smart ticketing and~~through-ticketing that in its design already contains the possibility for the eventual introduction of multimodal ticketing; this needs to be accompanied by appropriate protection for passengers in the event of delays or missed connections for single options and through tickets, ensuring, as a minimum, journey continuation;

Amendment 168 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Acknowledges that making long- distance rail passenger services more attractive requires more accessible smart ticketing to facilitate multimodal journey planning and simplify ticketing procedures through digital services and appropriate protection for passengers in the event of delays or missed connections for single options and through tickets, ensuring, as a minimum, journey continuation;

Amendment 169 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Acknowledges that making long- distance rail passenger services more attractive requires more accessible smart ticketing and, in some form or another, appropriate protection for passengers in the event of delays or missed connections for single options and through tickets, ensuring, as a minimum, journey continuation;

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the opinion issued by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in March 2021 concluded that three decades of liberalisation in the European Union railway sector have ‘not yielded the sought overall results’, and that an analysis of the results of the single European railway area should not be ‘limited to the implementation of the EU legal framework and a measuring of the degree of market opening’, but should also include ‘environmental aspects and … the role of rail as a Service of General Interest’;

Amendment 170 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Lucia VUOLO, Barbara THALER

20. Acknowledges that making long- distance rail passenger services more attractive requires more accessible, simpler and smart ticketing and appropriate protection for passengers in the event of delays or missed connections for single options and through tickets, ensuring, as a minimum, journey continuation;

Amendment 171 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Stresses the importance that passengers should have a seamless user experience when searching, selecting, and buying their railway services. In order to achieve seamless ticketing, sector-based solutions should be supported and can be considered as the starting point when improving multimodal ticketing;

Amendment 172 #

Annalisa TARDINO, Marco CAMPOMENOSI, Paolo BORCHIA, Massimo CASANOVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Highlights the need of cooperation between railway undertakings and ticket vendors to implement sector standards for ticket distribution, establishing fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory conditions for the exchange of data;

Amendment 173 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Notes that the level of data sharing between incumbent railway undertakings and new entrants remains insufficient to reach an optimal functioning of a liberalised railway system, particularly in terms of ticketing;

Amendment 174 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Realising the necessity to fully implement the European Accessibility Act and in relation to ticketing to ensure that appropriate alternatives exist for different passengers needs;

Amendment 175 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Stresses the importance of data sharing by operators in an open-source and accessible way, so that markets can be encouraged to come up with a best value solution;

Amendment 176 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)

20b. Inviting that rail tickets clearly indicate information on the CO2 footprint of the booked journey as is already publicly available1a in order to further encourage modal shift via well-informed mobility planning; _________________ 1a http://www.ecopassenger.org/bin/query.ex e/en?L=vs_uic

Amendment 177 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Takes note of the Commission’s upcoming proposal for a regulation on multimodal digital mobility services ~~to enhance data exchange~~. Highlights the need for the Commission, when proposing regulations, to ensure that consumers are sufficiently protected when purchasing travel documents via multimodal and other platforms. The proposal should enhance data exchange between the carriers and the provider of the multimodal digital service so that in the event of an emergency, the carrier can communicate directly with the consumer or compensate him or her directly and facilitate the conclusion of fair commercial agreements;

Amendment 178 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Takes note of the Commission’s upcoming proposal for a regulation on multimodal digital mobility services ~~to enhance data exchange and facilitate the conclusion of fair commercial agreements~~; recognises the need to grant passengers, tour operators, and ticket vendors access to all booking and reservation systems in a non-discriminatory and accessible way via openly standardised, machine- readable formats, through application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide all the data necessary to successfully conclude cross border through-ticketing;

Amendment 179 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Takes note of the Commission’s upcoming proposal for a regulation on multimodal digital mobility services to enhance secure data exchange and facilitate the conclusion of fair ~~commercial agreement~~agreements between rail operators and authorities on cross-border connections;

Amendment 18 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Lucia VUOLO, Barbara THALER

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. Whereas ERTMS trackside and onboard financing plays a key role to ensure enhanced rate of deployment and increased safety and interoperability throughout the TEN-T while advancing the realization of a truly interoperable European Railway Area;

Amendment 180 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Takes note of the Commission’s upcoming proposal for a regulation on multimodal digital mobility services to enhance data exchange and facilitate the conclusion of fair commercial agreements, with both principles being binding for all market participants;

Amendment 181 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

Amendment 182 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Takes note of the Commission’s upcoming proposal for a regulation on multimodal digital mobility services to enhance data exchange ~~and facilitate the conclusion of fair commercial agreements;~~.

Amendment 183 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Considers that journey continuation is a key factor in passengers’ choice of the modes of transport to use; welcomes the upcoming EC proposal on multimodal digital mobility services (MDMS) with the aim to further enhance travel data access, availability and exchange;

Amendment 184 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)

21b. Highlights the importance of seamless user experience when searching, selecting, and buying railway services. Having this in mind, sector-based solutions should be at first considered and promoted to boost multimodal ticketing;

Amendment 185 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Stresses the importance of ensuring fair, affordable and advantageous ticket prices for all categories of passengers, including the most vulnerable, as well as the accessibility to the platforms and tickets providers, in particular for senior passengers as well as for people with reduced mobility;

Amendment 186 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Stresses the importance of ensuring fair and advantageous ticket prices for all categories of passengers, including the most vulnerable; , with particular attention to disabled users who need special assistance;

Amendment 187 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Stresses the importance of ensuring fair and advantageous ticket prices for all categories of passengers, ~~including~~particularly the most vulnerable;

Amendment 188 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Stresses the importance of ensuring fair ~~and advantageous~~, easily accessible and affordable ticket prices for all categories of passengers~~, including the most vulnerable~~;

Amendment 189 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Highlights the need for a comprehensive approach with clear implementation milestones to achieve easier access to multimodal connections, based on interoperable solutions that are fit for purpose;

Amendment 19 #

Annalisa TARDINO, Marco CAMPOMENOSI, Paolo BORCHIA, Massimo CASANOVA

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas ~~the completion of TEN-T is crucial to advancing towards more sustainable modes of transport, in particular rail transport;~~ it is vital, in order to advance towards more sustainable modes of transport, in particular rail transport, not only to establish the key infrastructure, but also the capacity to develop secondary networks, connecting towns and cities, manufacturing facilities and logistics centres, which will help to boost the productive systems of the Member States, as well as territorial and socio-economic cohesion; whereas the TEN-T is essentially aimed at liberalising and concentrating the rail sector, consolidating the ‘single market’, and delivering savings, supported by public funding, for private businesses in strategic sectors in certain larger countries;

Amendment 190 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Highlights the need for a comprehensive approach with clear implementation milestones to achieve easier access to multimodal connections, while adopting interoperable solutions;

Amendment 191 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. ~~Welcomes the Commission’s willingness to monitor compliance with the new Rail Passengers’ Rights Regulation~~Calls for rail passengers’ rights to be strengthened by extending existing rights to multimodal journeys involving different operators and different countries;

Amendment 192 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. ~~Welcomes~~Calls on the Commission~~’s willingness to~~ to continue monitoring compliance with the new Rail Passengers’ Rights Regulation;

Amendment 193 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Stresses the need to prioritize in order to achieve the desired modal shift to rail; notes the over-emphasis on passenger rights regulation (14 years of discussion) which can distract stakeholders from the main objective; recalls that the emphasis on improving services and the pursuit of adequate, affordable, efficient, reliable and available services will reduce the number of people wishing to make use of their passenger rights;

Amendment 194 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Stresses the importance that passengers should have a seamless user experience when searching, selecting, and buying their railway services. In order to achieve seamless ticketing, sector-based solutions should be supported and considered as the starting point when improving multimodal ticketing, CER Ticketing Roadmap as an example.

Amendment 195 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 8

~~Level playing field with~~Promotion of rail transport over other transport modes

Amendment 196 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Considers that all possible avenues should be explored ~~to ensure a level playing field with other transport modes, including the possibility of an EU-wide VAT exemption for international train services, and~~ with regard to prioritising investment in rail and in the promotion of rail services that complement and connect with other transport modes and logistics centres in the Member States; notes that it is vital to develop a quick, efficient, interoperable and high-quality rail network that can play this central role, which therefore necessarily entails promoting and increasing public investment, ensuring work withe r~~evision and simplification of~~ights and combating dumping, and relaxing State aid; rules;

Amendment 197 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Considers that all possible avenues should be explored to ensure a level playing field with other transport modes, including the possibility of an EU-wide VAT exemption for international train services, and the revision and simplification of State aid and of the related notification obligation;

Amendment 198 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Considers that all possible avenues should be explored to ensure a level playing field with other transport modes, ~~including the possibility of~~welcoming Commission’s announcement to assess an EU-wide VAT exemption for international train services, and the revision and simplification of State aid;

Amendment 199 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Welcomes the Commission’s initiatives in placing the right incentives to drive the transition to zero-emission mobility. Transparent information should be available for passengers to make more sustainable choices. Transport environmental ecolabelling, including carbon footprint should be developed by the Commission to help passengers make well-informed choices for low-carbon mobility. Count Emission EU should establish a framework on transport- related greenhouse gas emission comparison and complement other regulatory measures such as CO2 standards for fleets, carbon pricing, taxation and infrastructure charging;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)

— having regard to the White Paper 'Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area – Towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system' 1a _________________ 1a https://eur- lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do? uri=COM:2011:0144:FIN:EN:PDF

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the completion of TEN-T is crucial to advancing towards more sustainable modes of transport, in particular rail transport, and to boosting multimodal connectivity between the EU’s cities, regions, peripheral areas and islands;

Amendment 200 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Calls on the Member States to reconsider and prioritize the use of public funds to improve public transport, e.g. rail service, which can carry large passenger volumes to meet the ever-growing demand for transportation;

Amendment 201 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Encourages the Commission to pursue the introduction of kerosene taxation;

Amendment 202 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)

25b. Highlights the importance of the systemic thinking and holistic approach for formulating transport strategies. So that a shift of the problem can be avoided;

Amendment 203 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)

25b. Invites the Commission to pursue its efforts to fully internalise all external cost of transport and fully implement the polluter- and user pays principle;

Amendment 204 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 c (new)

25 c. Highlights the need of a systemic approach for dealing with transport challenges to avoid shifting of the problems, emphasises that subsidising electrical vehicles will lead to further financial burdens to provide a vast charging infrastructure;

Amendment 205 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Barbara THALER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 d (new)

25d. Highlights the vital role rail transport plays to keep the transport functions even in crisis such as wars, Ukraine case, by accommodating enormous influx of passengers in short period;

Amendment 206 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 9

~~Public service obligation~~Support commercially driven services to promote sustainable cross-border and/or multimodal collective transport

Amendment 207 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Barbara THALER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Stresses that ~~public service contract~~improving the market framework for commercially driven services and introducing non- discriminatory incentives can play a decisive role in supporting the continuity of services and connections to interesting destinations, such as tourist and historical destinations, by providing rail services that help to maintain a dense network of railway links, including to less attractive destinations;

Amendment 208 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Stresses that public service contracts ~~can~~must play a decisive role in supporting the continuity of services and connections to interesting destinations, such as tourist and historical destinations, by providing rail services that help to maintain a dense network of railway links, including to less attractive destinationrail services, by helping to maintain a dense network of regular, reliable and high-quality railway links;

Amendment 209 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Stresses th~~at public service contracts can play a decisive role in~~e need to support~~ing~~ the continuity of services and connections to interesting destinations, such as tourist and historical destinations, by providing rail services that help to maintain a dense network of railway links~~, including to less attractive destinations~~;

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. Whereas smart multimodal ticketing represent a key instrument to encourage greater use of rail and multimodal sustainable collective transport and whereas rail plays a key role in ensuring efficient and interoperable standards and platforms for integrating other modes of transport in first/last miles connections;

Amendment 210 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Stresses that public service contracts can play a decisive role in supporting the continuity of ~~services and~~ensuring cross-border services for European citizens and improve connections to interesting destinations, such as tourist and historical destinations, by providing rail services that help to maintain a dense network of railway links, including to less attractive destinations;

Amendment 211 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Barbara THALER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Stresses that public service contracts can play a decisive role in supporting the continuity of services and connections to interesting destinations, such as tourist, folklore and historical destinations, by providing rail services that help to maintain a dense network of railway links, including to less attractive destinations;

Amendment 212 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Believes that ~~public service obligation~~an improved and fair market framework, together with non- discriminatory incentives for new commercially driven services can promote the use of rail, including in long-distance passenger transport, in particular in the case of market failures in cross-border and last- mile routes, perhaps in combination with other profitable segments of the network;

Amendment 213 #

27. Believes that public service obligations ~~can~~must promote the use of rail, including in long-distance passenger transport, ~~in particular in the case of market failures in cross-border and last- mile routes, perhaps~~ in combination with other ~~profitable~~ segments of the network;

Amendment 214 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Believes that public service obligations can promote the use of rail, including in long-distance passenger transport, in particular in the case of market failures due to insufficient high- speed and high-capacity infrastructure in cross-border and last- mile routes, perhaps in combination with other profitable segments of the network;

Amendment 215 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Believes that public service obligations can promote the use of rail, including in long-distance passenger transport, in particular in ~~the case of market failures in~~ cross-border and last- mile routes, perhaps in combination with other profitable segments of the network;

Amendment 216 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Calls on the Commission to sustain the momentum of the 2021 European Year of Rail in the 2022 European Year of Youth, by encouraging and helping young people to travel by train, and ~~attracting them to~~by improving the image of professions in the rail sector, which is facing skill shortages driven by innovation and digitalisation, in particular by increasing wages and by improving working conditions and labour and social protection;

Amendment 217 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Calls on the Commission and Member States to sustain the momentum of the 2021 European Year of Rail in the 2022 European Year of Youth, by encouraging young people to travel by train and attracting them to professions in the rail sector, which is facing skill shortages driven by innovation and digitalisation;

Amendment 218 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28a. Believes that a single European High Speed Rail network can be important for connecting people, especially young people. Improving access to education and jobs will lead to prosperity in Europe.

Amendment 219 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28a. NEW TITLE: Fostering modal shift through behavioural change

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas there are still technological barriers to the interoperability of trains between the various EU countries;

Amendment 220 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 b (new)

28b. Inviting that rail tickets clearly indicate information on the CO2 footprint of the booked journey as is already publicly available1a in order to further encourage modal shift via well-informed mobility planning; _________________ 1a http://www.ecopassenger.org/bin/query.ex e/en?L=vs_uic

Amendment 221 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 c (new)

28c. Welcomes the Commission's planned initiatives to make the provision of cross border night train services easier and furthermore encourages the rail undertakings to realise the full potential of night trains;

Amendment 222 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 d (new)

28d. Invites the Commission to consider a ban on short-haul flights for relations where viable rail connections exist below 5 hours or night trains no longer than 12 hours;

Amendment 23 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the European Year of Rail 2021 ~~was an opportunity to foster a shift towards mak~~, by failing to mention that it is EU policies that are responsible for the decline of the rail sector, publicised an image not correctly reflecting the situation in the sector; it should instead have been an opportunity to foster investment ing rail ~~the backbone of passenger transport across the Union~~and in its potential key role as a method of passenger transport better serving the people and development strategies of each country;

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the European Year of Rail 2021 was an opportunity to ~~fos~~promoter a shift towards making rail the backbone of passenger transport across the Union;

Amendment 25 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the Connecting Europe Express event in 2021 showed the lack of infrastructure interoperability within the EU rail network by having to use three different types of rolling stock in order to adapt to the different gauge widths across the EU;

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas urban hubs at present are not sufficiently integrated into the current TEN-T network, and a significant amount of last-mile infrastructure for goods transport and multimodal connections for passengers are lacking;

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Commission’s action plan and supports the proposed ~~target~~intentions to make rail transport more attractive, competitive and efficient;

Amendment 28 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point -a (new)

-a) recognising the crucial position of rail in decarbonising the EU’s mobility and taking initiatives to enable the ‘Single European Railway Area’ to become the prerequisite for the necessary modal shift 1a _________________ 1a https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/?qid=1576150542719&u ri=COM%3A2019%3A640%3AFIN

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point a

~~a) contributing to the establishment of the single European railway area, which will help to improve the EU internal market and foster the socio- economic cohesion of the Union;~~deleted

Amendment 3 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 b (new)

— having regard to the Commission’s 1995 Green Paper “Towards Fair and Efficient Pricing’1a _________________ 1a https://europa.eu/documents/comm/green _papers/pdf/com95_691_en.pdf

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point a

a) contributing to the establishment of the single European railway area, that can meet the mobility needs of Europe’s citizens, which will help to improve the EU internal market and foster the socio- economic cohesion of the Union;

Amendment 31 #

Andor DELI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point b

b) boosting connectivity across the whole of Europe, including remote regions, islands, enlargement and Eastern Partnership countries, mountainous areas and less populated zones;

Amendment 32 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point b

b) boosting intra- as well as inter- modal connectivity across the whole of Europe, including rural areas, remote regions, islands, mountainous areas and less populated zones;

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 - point c

(c) improving the efficiency and ensuring high quality of transport~~, while~~ services, while offering sufficient capacity and reducing travel times andt appropriate ticket prices;

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point c

c) improving the efficiency and quality of transport, while reducing travel times and ~~ticket pr~~focussing increasingly on improving quality of services;

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point c

c) improving the eoff~~iciency~~er and quality of t~~ransport~~he public rail transport service, while reducing travel times and ticket prices;

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point d

d) ensuring fair competitionve frameworks among rail operators and ~~between different modes of~~establishing a competitive level playing field between transport modes;

Amendment 37 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point d

d) ensuring fair competition among rail operators and ~~between different modes of~~foster a level playing field between the railways and other transport modes;

Amendment 38 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point d

d) ensuring ~~fair~~ comopetiration and interoperability among rail operators and authorities and between different modes of transport;

Amendment 39 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point d

d) ensuring fair competition among rail operators and ~~between~~complementarity of different modes of transport;

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 c (new)

— having regard to the Steer and KCW study of October 2021 “Long distance cross-border passenger rail Services” 1a _________________ 1a https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2832/019365

Amendment 40 #

e) ensuring the protection ~~of passengers’ rights, guaranteeing equal access for all and fostering the attractiveness of rail transport for young people~~and further reinforcement of passengers’ rights, fostering the attractiveness of rail and guaranteeing equal access for all by fully implementing the European Accessibility Act;

Amendment 41 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 - point e

(e) ensuring the same level of protection of passengers’ rights in various forms of transport, guaranteeing equal access for all and fostering the attractiveness of rail transport for young people;

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point e

e) ensuring the protection of passengers’ rights, guaranteeing equal access for all and fostering the attractiveness of rail transport, in particular for young people;

Amendment 43 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point e a (new)

ea) ensuring and promoting train drivers and railway staff training, upskilling, reskilling and certification in line with future needs;

Amendment 44 #

Annalisa TARDINO, Marco CAMPOMENOSI, Paolo BORCHIA, Massimo CASANOVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – point e a (new)

ea) new F: Create a framework to pave the way for an increase of investments in competitive long distance rail transport passenger services;

Amendment 45 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Welcomes the establishment of pilot services and calls on the Commission to identify as soon as possible resources for this purpose and a clear timeframe with appropriate milestones and objectives;

Amendment 46 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Welcomes the acceleration of the work to ensure the full implementation of the 4th Railway Package and the Technical Specifications for Interoperability~~Emphasises the need to reverse the measures recommended in the railway packages, by re-focusing on public interest and service, restoring the vertical links between infrastructure management, and operation and maintenance of services, and ensuring public investment in the expansion of the network and renewal of rolling stock, which will guarantee a modern, interoperable, accessible and high-quality rail service;

Amendment 47 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes the acceleration of the work to ensure the full implementation of the 4th Railway Package and the Technical Specifications for Interoperability; regrets however the non-alignment with the decoupling imperative provided for by the fourth railway package in certain Member States;

Amendment 48 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Insists on the necessity to ensure appropriate implementation of the guarantee of equal treatment for incumbent operators and new entrants in the access to the infrastructure;

Amendment 49 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the full deployment of the ERTMS, including in the upcoming revision of the TEN-T regulation will help to create a digital single European railway area, ensuring the development of increased network capacity, safe, secure and efficient rail transport services for long-distance and cross-border connections;

Amendment 5 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Lucia VUOLO, Barbara THALER

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 d (new)

— having regard to The European Accessibility Act, Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services1a; _________________ 1a https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32019 L0882

Amendment 50 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the full deployment of the ERTMS will help to create a digital single European railway area, ensuring the further development of safe, secure, fast and efficient rail transport services for long-distance and cross-border connections;

Amendment 51 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the full deployment of the ERTMS will help to create a digital single European railway area, ensuring the further development of safe, secure fast and efficient rail transport services for long-distance and cross-border connections;

Amendment 52 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses th~~at the full deployment of the ERTMS will help to create a digital single European railway area~~e need for strict cooperation between network operators and managers across the various Member States, ensuring the development of safe, secure and efficient rail transport services for long- distance and cross-border connections;

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights that boosting long- distance rail transport must also improve the connection of regional, urban and peripheral areas to TEN-T, although this cannot be done without the need to accelerate the construction of new lines as defined in the TEN-T and without the need to adequately improve the performance of existing lines;

Amendment 54 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights that boosting long- distance rail transport must ~~also improve the connection of regional, urban and peripheral areas to TEN-T~~be accompanied with an integration into different inter-regional, regional, urban and peri-urban rail networks as well as with other modes and TEN-T, making door-to-door mobility easier, more accessible and more comfortable for passengers ;

Amendment 55 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights that boosting long- distance rail transport must also improve the connection of regional, urban and peripheral areas to TEN-T, and that European funding in this respect must cover investment in secondary transport networks, with particular emphasis on rail;

Amendment 56 #

Annalisa TARDINO, Marco CAMPOMENOSI, Paolo BORCHIA, Massimo CASANOVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Highlight~~Stresses that boosting long- distance rail transport must also ~~improve the connection of~~contribute to the improvement of connectivity between regional, urban and peripheral areas toand TEN-T and will be crucial to increasing the attractiveness of rail and multimodal passenger transport services;

Amendment 57 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Stresses the importance of further promoting the realization of infrastructure projects, integrated to the motorways of the sea, including bridges connecting islands to the mainland, in order to close existing missing links;

Amendment 58 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

~~6. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to speed up the roll-out of the ERTMS in the revision of the TEN-T Regulation;~~deleted

Amendment 59 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

~~6. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to speed up the roll-out of the ERTMS in the revision of the TEN-T Regulation;~~deleted

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)

— having regard to the Communication from the Commission of 10 March 2020 on New Industrial Strategy for Europe,

Amendment 60 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to speed up the roll-out of the ERTMS in the revision of the TEN-T Regulation while setting a mandatory deadline for the de-commissioning of class-B legacy systems;;

Amendment 61 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to speed up the ~~roll-ou~~Union-wide deployment of the ERTMS in the revision of the TEN-T Regulation;

Amendment 62 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to speed up the ~~roll-ou~~Union-wide deployment of the ERTMS in the revision of the TEN-T Regulation;

Amendment 63 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Lucia VUOLO, Barbara THALER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to speed up the ~~roll-ou~~Union-wide deployment of the ERTMS in the revision of the TEN-T Regulation;

Amendment 64 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Stresses the need to accelerate work on removing national operating and infrastructure rules and further develop deployment plans for the implementation of Technical Specifications for Interoperability to ensure these are coherent across borders; further emphasises that regulatory stability is a key enabler to unlock the investments needed from public and private stakeholders to meet the deployment objectives of ERTMS at EU and national level;

Amendment 65 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses the importance of ensuring the synchronised deployment of the trackside system and on-board units and the need for improved ERTMS governance to ~~ensur~~streamline and accelerate such a synchronised deployment at both national and EU level;

Amendment 66 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses the importance of ensuring th~~e synchronised deployment of~~at the trackside ~~system~~ and on-board ~~units and the need for improved ERTMS governance to ensure such a~~system is effective so that connections can be monitored and synchronised ~~deployment~~ at both national and EUinternational level;

Amendment 67 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses the importance of ensuring the synchronised deployment of the trackside system and on-board units and the need for improved ERTMS governance to ensure ~~such a~~a binding and synchronised deployment at both national and EU level;

Amendment 68 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Insists on the need to tend towards regulatory stability in technical specifications for interoperability in order to provide a sufficient degree of legal predictability to railway undertakings;

Amendment 69 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Emphasises the need to ensure quick sufficient and efficient financing and funding to support the investments; calls for a clear and predictable financial framework on the EU level which would go beyond the current multi-annual financial framework in order to underpin the targets set for TEN-T rail infrastructure.

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)

— having regard to the study of the Commission issued in October 2021 entitled 'Long-distance cross-border passenger rail services'8a, _________________ 8a MOVE/2020/OP/0013

Amendment 70 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Emphasises the need to ensure quick and efficient financing to support the investments, including the involvement of the competent authorities to require and compensate public services to encourage the earliest possible deployment of ERTMS OBUs and other TSI standards;

Amendment 71 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Emphasises the need to ensure quick and efficient financing to support the investments in ERTMS, and reminds the crucial importance to create a business case for on board retrofitting of the rolling stock of all railway operators, passengers and freight;

Amendment 72 #

Karolin BRAUNSBERGER-REINHOLD, Markus PIEPER, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Lucia VUOLO, Barbara THALER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Emphasises the need to ensure increased, appropriate, quick and efficient financing to support the investments;

Amendment 73 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Emphasises the need to ensure quick, sufficient and efficient financing and funding to support the investments;

Amendment 74 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Emphasises the need to ensure quick, sufficient and efficient financing and funding to support ~~the~~ investments;

Amendment 75 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Considers it essential to promote the medium- and long-distance sections to make rail economically competitive for passengers compared to air, encouraging environmentally sustainable transport; considers that international cooperation could have positive spillover effects not only economically for European rail companies but also especially for the services offered to passengers; invites the Commission to promote its efforts to ensure the interoperability of the rail system and rolling stock;

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls for efforts to extend the coordinated timetables that have already been introduced in some member states onto the EU level to encourage easy and smooth travel for all EU citizens across borders;

Amendment 77 #

Annalisa TARDINO, Marco CAMPOMENOSI, Paolo BORCHIA, Massimo CASANOVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Reminds that adequate funding of the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) is needed in order to provide additional support for the TEN-T completion objectives, particularly ERTMS and cross-border sections;

Amendment 78 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to take appropriate initiatives to further improve the attractiveness of investing in the ERTMS and to guarantee legal certainty for private investors;

Amendment 79 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Commends the role of the European Union Agency of Railways, which is one of the pillars of the European Union's rail policy and which carries out its tasks despite insufficient financial means;

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)

-A. whereas the climate emergency demands a substantial change in mobility patterns from each and every one of us

Amendment 80 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Considers that the timely completion of the multimodal, seamless TEN-T core network corridors by 2030 is imperative and must involve the elimination of bottlenecks and missing links and the completion of cross-border sections; supports the planned high-speed rail connections in the extended core network, to be realised by 2040; stresses the need for an EU Masterplan for High Speed, in the context of the revision of the TEN-T guidelines, which connects the EU capitals with high speed train services and improves the quality of infrastructure, the efficiency and the affordability of the services;

Amendment 81 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Considers that the timely completion of the multimodal, seamless TEN-T core network corridors by 2030 is imperative and must involve the elimination of bottlenecks and missing links and the completion of cross-border sections; supports the planned high-speed rail connections in the extended core network, to be realised by 2040. Believes that priority investments should be also directed to the development of long distance, cross-border high speed rail connections, especially in areas where there is, currently, a lack of high speed rail infrastructure;

Amendment 82 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Considers that the timely completion of the multimodal, seamless TEN-T core network corridors by 2030 is imperative and must involve the elimination of bottlenecks and missing links and the completion of cross-border sections; supports the planned high-speed rail connections in the extended core network, to be realised by 2040; new high- speed lines in particular are an effective tool for increasing the competitiveness of rail transport and meeting wider EU objectives;

Amendment 83 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Considers that the timely completion of the multimodal, seamless TEN-T core network corridors ~~by 2030 is imperative and~~ must involve the elimination of bottlenecks and missing links, as well as the restructuring of connected transport networks and the completion of cross-border sections; supports the planned high-speed rail connections in the extended core network, to be realised by 2040;

Amendment 84 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Considers that the timely completion of the multimodal, seamless TEN-T core network corridors by 2030 ~~is impe~~will be a first step to further network integrativeon and must involve the elimination of bottlenecks a~~nd missing links and the completion of cross-border sections; supports the planned high-speed rail connections in the extended core network, to be realised by 2040~~s well as the (re)instatement of missing regional cross- border railway links and the completion of cross-border sections;

Amendment 85 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Stresses the role of TEN-T and of high- quality rail links and multimodal transport in supporting economic growth and inclusivity, especially in isolated regions and in areas with a significant structural gap; therefore invites the European Commission to adopt actions and projects to support better connectivity of local sustainable and rail multimodal transport in peripheral and coastal areas with lower margins for development;

Amendment 86 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Stresses the utmost importance of building new infrastructure to meet the demand of High-Speed Rail; reminds that doubling high-speed rail traffic by 2030 will require at least a 75% increase in the current network length of 11,526 km13a; _________________ 13a CER Fact Sheet: The Voice of European Railways A TEN-T to make modal shift and the European Green Deal a reality

Amendment 87 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calling for a dedicated financing tool for cross-border regional missing rail links which are not already eligible under Connecting Europe Facility (CEF);

Amendment 88 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Supports the planned high-speed rail connections in the extended core TEN-T, to be realised by 2040, focussing in particular on those connections that have the potential to replace the busiest short-haul flight connections;

Amendment 89 #

Ondřej KOVAŘÍK, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Dominique RIQUET, Nicola DANTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Regrets the limited EU funding available through Connecting Europe Facility CEF II (2021-2027) which represent around 5%of the total investment needed to accomplish the TEN-T core network13a;

Amendment 9 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the new Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy sets the milestone of doubling high-speed rail traffic by 2030; and of tripling high-speed rail traffic by 2050;

Amendment 90 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)

9 c. Calls for deploying other EU financial resources, such as the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) revenues, to fund construction of the missing High-Speed Rail (HSR) links especially in the regions of less connectivity such as Eastern European and Western Balkan to overcome the HSR service imbalance across the EU;

Amendment 91 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)

9d. Welcomes the positive financing example of the European Investment Bank (EIB) by providing funds of EUR 890 million to develop the high-speed rail line between Madrid and Extremadura in Spain14a, calls for more similar actions on a larger scale across the EU; _________________ 14a https://www.eib.org/en/press/all/2020- 316-el-bei-financia-con-890-millones-de- euros-la-linea-ferroviaria-de-alta- velocidad-entre-madrid-y-extremadura

Amendment 92 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 e (new)

9e. Regrets the unambitious plan of setting 160km/hr as the minimum line speed in TEN-T network, which is not in line with the objective of making rail more competitive with other transport modes

Amendment 93 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that in order for TEN-T to play its role in fostering socio-economic cohesion in the EU internal market, given that only 44% of EU border residents currently have access to rail services1a and that appropriate multimodal transport ~~and~~solutions are often missing, a smart connectivity to the TEN-T core network ~~must be developed for~~is needed and a further integration of different national networks must be developed, also including rural, remote, insular, peripheral and other disadvantaged areas, many of which have considerable room for socio-economic improvement; _________________ 1a https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti cle/pii/S2213624X21000055?via%3Dihub

Amendment 94 #

Annalisa TARDINO, Marco CAMPOMENOSI, Paolo BORCHIA, Massimo CASANOVA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that in order for TEN-T to play its role in fostering territorial and socio-economic cohesion ~~in the EU internal market, appropriat~~, appropriate, regular and reliable multimodal transport and ~~smart~~comprehensive connectivity to the TEN-T core network must be developed, in particular for remote, insular, peripheral and other disadvantaged areas~~, many of which have considerable room fo~~ in order to aid their socio-economic ~~improve~~development;

Amendment 95 #

Andor DELI

10a. Stresses the significance of cross- border rail connections towards the Western Balkans region taking into account the newly designed Western Balkans European Transport Corridor; notes that the effective and fast border crossing mechanism at the EU's external borders are key to ensure seamless passenger rail connectivity between the EU and its neighbouring regions, calls on, therefore, the European Commission to put in place mechanisms which simplify and accelerate passport control and custom procedures;

Amendment 96 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Stresses the need to improve the use of EU Funds beyond ERDF and cohesion funds, including CEF, NGEU, RRF or ReactEU, to secure massive quality investments in sustainable and efficient transport infrastructure;

Amendment 97 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Welcomes the promising alternatives offered by hydrogen and battery trains when electrification of a rail section is not possible for reasons of cost efficiency;

Amendment 98 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Supports the Commission~~’s focus~~ on the completion of first/last mile multimodal hubs in cities with more than 100 000 inhabitants, ~~thereby~~ strengthening rail connectivity with air, sea and road transport; recalls, however, that smaller and less populated urban hubs should have efficient links with multimodal hubs and terminals within a reasonable distance; in this case it is essential that high-quality multimodal connectivity for passengers is also guaranteed;

Amendment 99 #