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dcterms:Date	"2009-03-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures - Greening of transport and internalisation of external costs (continuation of debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20090310.34.2-390"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-03-10-Speech-2-3912
lpv:speaker	lp:Dirk Sterckx2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Open VLD (2008-04-18--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2009-07-13)3 member; TRAN (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I agree with Mr Jarzembowski when he says that mobility is essential to society. I also agree with Mrs Wortmann-Kool when she says that here, too, we must pay particular attention to the internal market. However, to my mind, this compromise does take us a step in that direction. The internal market is important, and so it is also important that agreements be made between Member States. In addition, this is just a first step towards a system we are going to have to think over in its entirety anyway at a given point in time and to adjust at certain points. A large majority of our group supports the compromise reached with the rapporteur, for which I thank him. The internalisation of external costs – and I have listened closely to the rapporteur’s words – is not a regular tax. The revenues thus generated must be used to reduce the external costs. This is an essential component of Parliament’s position. If this does not happen, we no longer have a compromise. Therefore, we agree to the inclusion of air pollution, noise and congestion in the internalisation of external costs. In the case of congestion, however, if the aim is to fight and reduce this phenomenon, all road users causing it must be treated in the same way without any discrimination between the various elements responsible. I also think it a good thing, therefore, that a Member State must present an action plan and state how it plans to reduce congestion. All in all, earmarking is important – the rapporteur too has pointed out that this is an essential component. It is not disputed in Parliament that earmarking, the use of the revenues, is very important. I should like to say to Mrs Wortmann-Kool that, if these two conditions – equal treatment of all the road users responsible for congestion and clear earmarking of revenue from the charge – are not met, and if the Council is not in agreement, the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe will also withdraw its support for the compromise."@en1
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