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"Mr President, Mr Kallas, in the Committee on Transport and Tourism, we took the debate on the White Paper on transport for the next few decades very seriously. Following an initial report, we refined the focus of our opinion by making 413 amendments. However, we have found a good basis for setting priorities for the future, in particular, by means of 32 compromises. This was possible due to the readiness of my colleagues in committee to enter into dialogue. I would like to thank them very much for this, as well as all the members of staff who helped to make this report into something really unified.
These are just a few examples of how we see the future. In any case, Commissioner, we would like to discuss these specific measures with the Commission in future and also implement them.
It is worth it because when we talk about transport, we are talking about over 10 million workers in Europe, more than 5% of GDP and, ultimately, something that affects the day-to-day lives of almost all citizens. Thus, this really is a key competence of European policy. The White Paper puts the emphasis in the right places. The emphasis is on economic, environmental and safety aspects, where energy and CO
remain the priorities, of course.
First of all, however, we wanted to send a clear message to the Council. We want a swift and clear transposal of EU directives, but we see that this is not always the case in the Council and that the borders between Member States that we want to abolish are very often reconstructed as a result of transposal in the Council.
In the debate, we agreed on many words and concepts relating to efficient co-modality. For me, however, what is important is the fact that this efficiency includes the aspect of economic efficiency just as much as it does the aspects of environmental protection, safety and the right working conditions. All of this will give us an efficient transport policy.
We have initially limited ourselves to the next 10 years and have put forward 31 clear proposals in this regard, primarily with regard to safety, particularly in connection with road transport. We are still seeing more than 40 000 deaths and more than 400 000 serious injuries a year. We want clear measures for the next 10 years up to 2020 in order to reduce these figures by 50%.
Of course, CO
is, and remains, a priority for us, too. In this regard, we are setting a target of 20% less than the 1990 levels for the next 10 years. It is possible for us to achieve that, among other things using an energy mix – not only electro-mobility, we want an energy mix. However, we also want a better modal distribution and we do not want to underestimate urban transport, either – with respect for subsidiarity. After all, 80% of citizens will be living in urban centres in future and, for example, environmentally friendly modes of transport right down to pedestrians and bicycles, Mr Cramer, create alternatives that will make this transport much more environmentally friendly and sustainable.
Where CO
is concerned, however, we are also considering airspace. Why are we waiting so long to implement this when we know that, with simple decisions and without investing any money, we could, at the end of the day, save 20%?
We also share your view of the single European transport area. We want to abolish the frontier effects. We want to open up the markets. We also want to make transport much more efficient. However, for the future – and I am thinking in particular of road transport here – we also do not want to have the cheapest transport at the expense of health and the environment, but we want the right prices under the right conditions for the environment and also for the people who work in this sector.
All of this will, of course, also result in us in Europe, together with the Commission, calling for a coherent European transport network. However, we want to set points of focus there, too. Bottlenecks that we have been aware of for years must be eradicated. Frontier effects must also be eliminated. The money is not simply there for the Member States to do with what they will. We want to create European added value here and accordingly also guarantee the funding."@en1
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