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"Mr President, it is understandable and very clear from all the remarks how large the transport area is and how many details must be improved. We have heard many contradictory statements – some say that this regulation for a single European transport area is needed while others say there is too much regulation. What should we do? Do we really need a single European transport area and, if a project does not move as fast as expected, should we abandon that project? No, on the contrary, we should hold fast to our ambitions and should push ahead with our ideas.
Two minutes is not enough time to allow me to elaborate, but I must say that we have enjoyed the cooperation of the Committee on Transport and Tourism in the European Parliament. We have had numerous discussions and will continue to have discussions concerning concrete legislative proposals. You just had a discussion about railway recast – the recast of the first railway package – and it is clear to all how fragmented this area of transport is and how contradictory and different our views and interests are.
Many of you raised the issues that this White Paper on this transport concept will lead to an increase in the level of legislation. I, however, do not see how. In industry, it is the producers of railway equipment that mostly complain about different certification procedures in Member States. These procedures take enormous amounts of money and time. Therefore, the proposal is to harmonise this and create a European certification system for new railway equipment. Is that more regulation or less regulation? Is Blue Belt, for instance, to reduce formalities for ships? Is that more regulation or less regulation? I can definitely assure you that the Commission is trying to create a legislative framework to develop a transport system which will contain as little bureaucracy as possible.
We must address the issue of congestion and we must address the issue of CO
emissions and also fuel dependency. If we do not have Europe-wide answers to these questions, then we will probably be the cause of a lot of disappointment for business, for citizens and Member States everywhere. Let us work with these concrete proposals next week. One big one is already in process. This is a trans-European network proposal and the connecting Europe facility proposal, which is a tremendously different proposal compared with the many previous proposals, and railway proposals are following. Again, there is the possibility to discuss how to overcome the national and political fragmentation of this particular transport mode."@en1
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