Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-03-10-Speech-1-155"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-03-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Sustainable European transport policy, taking into account European energy and environment policies (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080310.20.1-155"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-03-10-Speech-1-1562
lpv:speaker	lp:Richard Seeber2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; PETI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2005-05-02--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Österreichische Volkspartei - Liste Ursula Stenzel (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; REGI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I would like to thank the rapporteur for the report, and I know that in Commissioner Barrot we have a champion of sustainable transport policy. Transport can pose a particular risk to our economic growth in Europe if it does not function properly. In this domain we need more European responsibility, not less, for whenever Europe has fewer powers, there are national particularities and there are borders, and these are detrimental to transport operations. This is why we must try to seek European solutions, as we have just been doing in the realm of air transport or as we did with the railway package. I can only ask the Commission to step up a gear in the search for more and better European solutions, but success will surely also depend on our finding prices for the individual modes of transport that reflect their full cost. Here, too, the Commission has adopted the right approach by starting with road transport, for road transport is certainly the mode that generates the highest social costs at the present time, although these are not met in full by road users. Commissioner, you were in the Tyrol, a sensitive Alpine region, and you know what damage is caused there by heavy haulage traffic. That impact also shows us that it is high time for action to introduce the European road-tax disc, to actually present the framework you have announced and to continue working hard to apply the principle that users should pay the true cost of road transport. I must also direct some criticism at my own group here. The group has come down in favour of Amendment 1. I wish to express my opposition to that amendment and to pledge my full support and that of my fellow Austrian Members to the effort to ensure that the Commission presents this general framework in June, beginning with road transport, and does not postpone its presentation until the next blue moon on the grounds that the package must cover all modes of transport. There is an urgent need to act. Let us begin with road transport."@en1

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