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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-05-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Improvement of the environmental performance of the freight transport system ("Marco Polo II") (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060516.5.2-044"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-05-16-Speech-2-0452
lpv:speaker	lp:Josu Ortuondo Larrea2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; ITRE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Partido Nacionalista Vasco (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; PECH (2004-09-03--2007-01-14)3 member; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, the transport of goods on European roads will increase by more than 60% between now and 2013, and by 2020 it will double in the new Member States. In addition to the congestion that this is going to cause, it will have a major impact on our environment: what we call ‘external costs’. The Commission estimates that, for every euro spent on this programme, six euros will be saved on these external costs. We are not, therefore, happy about the cuts made in the 2007-2013 financial perspective to the budget of EUR 740 million requested by the Commission for this programme for the next seven-year period. We are going to support the proposal and the compromise amendments achieved as a result of considerable efforts by Mr Rack, but we would have liked projects to have been eligible for subsidy if they would have brought about a net reduction in road congestion, whether or not they transferred goods to other modes of transport. We would also have liked to have achieved even lower minimum thresholds for the indicative amounts per euro of subsidy, so that a greater number of small and medium-sized enterprises might have accessed the aid from the programme. However, we welcome the fact that the criterion of the volume of the cargo has been taken into account when evaluating the results of the measures that are subsidised, because it is not the weight of the goods themselves that pollutes and causes congestion, but the volume that they occupy, and consequently and definitively the number of lorries that are needed to transport them. We also welcome the fact that measures carried out in only one Member State are accepted as eligible for subsidy, provided that they represent at least a 50% improvement in cross border traffic with other States. Finally, as I do not wish to go on for too long, I would like to reflect on something, although this might be part of a different proposal: we believe that there also needs to be a discussion regarding our current model of production and subsequent distribution of goods. If we were really incorporating all the external costs of transport without exception, as well as the repercussions of that model on the distribution of the population and land planning, we might have to change the model."@en1

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