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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-04-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Charging HGVs for infrastructure2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040420.3.2-052"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-04-20-Speech-2-0532
lpv:speaker	lp:Paolo Costa2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; ELDR (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3,3 unknown; I Democratici (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2003-09-09--2004-07-19)3,3 chair; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2003-09-09--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr Cocilovo, sooner or later, even the European Union will succeed in giving itself some rules in order to apply the two principles: the ‘user pays’ principle, whereby users meet the cost of infrastructure use, and the ‘polluter pays’ principle, whereby polluters will pay the costs of the negative effects of congestion, pollution and health damage, that are becoming ever more evident. Sooner or later it will happen. At the beginning of the parliamentary term we were idealistic about being able to apply both of them: this has not happened, we are half way there. We can say that the excellent Cocilovo report does, at least, allow us to achieve the first objective of sensibly applying the principle according to which those using the roads are charged the cost of them and this money is used to finance maintenance or further construction and, therefore, indirectly, to thus take a broad approach that, by using cross-financing, allows us to take a more comprehensive look at the corridor in which the road runs. Fortunately, however, it seems to me that the Cocilovo report gives some additional guidelines. In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with fixing tariffs and only maintaining this objective for some heavy vehicles and for some roads – just for transporting goods, in short – because at the end of the day something is achieved. At the same time, the report suggests guidelines as to the possibility of having different tariffs to take into account congestion and pollution and to encourage a shift to other modes of transport. From this point of view, I feel that the route chosen is positive and should be supported, including this relatively innovative concept, which is a concept upon which I believe we must carry out more work. The World Health Organisation sees a clear link between particulates and cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. This implies that we have a duty to intervene, including with a tariff instrument, to ensure that these problems are dealt with seriously."@en1

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