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"Mr President, Commissioner, the debates on the Constitutional Treaty over the last few months suggest that the European Union ought to take its citizens’ interests into account when adopting legal provisions. It would also be appropriate to review existing legal instruments and assess the consequences of their implementation, including the financial consequences.
The European Commission proposed liberalising international passenger transport services from 2010. In his document, Mr Jarzembowski suggests bringing the date forward by two years, so that liberalisation would begin in 2008. This would result in undertakings currently active in Poland or in other new Member States losing a significant part of the market. These countries are suffering from under-investment in railway infrastructure and they lack modern rail equipment. Regional rail transport has been under-financed too. A further reduction of the transitional period for international transport will aggravate the negative effect of the new provisions on transport companies in the new Member States. This is because current arrangements for European funding to purchase modern rolling stock for passenger transport are inadequate, and the countries that joined the Union on 1 May 2004 are not in a position to disburse the large sums required themselves.
Union citizens will benefit from the liberalisation of services in the long term. At present, however, it is important to get the technical quality right and the appropriate infrastructure in place. This requires the new Member States to undertake some unusually expensive action involving restructuring and investment. It is therefore necessary to retain the five-year period proposed by the Commission, so as to allow the conditions for competition on the European transport market to even out. We should grant the railway sector sufficient time to revitalise itself.
Mr President, Commissioner, liberalisation of the market in rail transport services should go hand in hand with a great European venture linking west of Europe to the east, and north to the south by means of a high speed train similar to the TGV. That would be the ideal project through which to demonstrate the unity of our continent and the relevance of European institutions, including the European Commission and the European Parliament."@en1
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