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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your questions. Firstly, I will reply to Mr Jarzembowski.
It seems to me extremely urgent that we present to Parliament and the Council a new system of charging for infrastructures and, in particular, a modification of the current ‘Euro-disc’ directive with regard to the funding of road infrastructures.
In this proposed new funding of infrastructures we will undoubtedly consider, amongst other things, that infrastructures should meet not only the costs of their own maintenance or construction, but also the so-called external costs, in accordance with the Costa report which was approved by this Parliament. We are talking about costs such as congestion, accidents and certain environmental costs, which are clearly definable and quantifiable.
Furthermore, in this proposal we will introduce the possibility that in certain cases – I insist, not as a habitual system, but in certain exceptional cases such as the Brenner tunnel or certain large projects which involve very costly work with a significant environmental impact that must be reduced as far as possible – the so-called Swiss model may be applied in the European Union as well, that is to say that tolls, or part of a toll from an existing infrastructure be used to create a fund to finance the construction of an alternative rail infrastructure. This is a fundamental issue. It is by means of these formulae that we hope the most important projects for the structuring of the whole of European territory may be carried out.
Secondly, you are going to analyse the projects that appear here in the codecision procedure. I wish to say that the fact the project appears in the trans-European networks allows the European Union to promote the idea that States – who in the end have to make the great investments – or regions should also plan their large-scale works not on the basis of national interest, but in the interest of trans-European interconnection and hence with a cross-border vision. This is why I said that, since Roman times, the trans-European networks initiative is really the first rational proposal of this type.
It will be made possible by providing co-funding, up to a current maximum of 10%. If the proposals being made here are approved this may go up to 20% for certain particularly important and costly projects, because appearing on these trans-European networks eases access to funding by the European Bank.
Lastly, I will say to Mr Bouwman that, in this new proposal, we incorporate not only the North-south routes, which are the ones that have essentially been included in the other trans-European networks, because they were the most necessary, but also the East-west routes, above all the basic Paris-Stuttgart-Vienna route, which will eventually provide a link with Budapest; we also incorporate the Danube and its best communication with the Rhine, creating a south-east-northeast route which crosses the whole of the Union.
There is no doubt that the 2004 review, when the new countries of the Union will also be integrated, will stress this East-west component even more, without forgetting the North-south, which must always be maintained, in any event."@en1
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