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Mr President, the whole of the European gauge high speed network of the Iberian Peninsula is, in fact, included in the networks. There is going to be an enormous effort to integrate the Iberian Peninsula with the European rail network and this will bring about such interoperability, thereby making rail transport – for both people and goods – a genuine alternative to other types of transport.
Mrs Langenhagen, we are going to hold a debate in relation to GALILEO. Ladies and gentlemen, you are aware of my personal interest in this project, which I believe to be crucial in terms of European Union strategy.
In my personal opinion – although it is shared by the Services and by the Commission as a whole – what happened on 11 September gives us all the more reason to move ahead with this project. Clearly, not all of the applications that increasingly depend on the American global positioning system can rely on a single system. We need a second system that will complement and strengthen the current system, which is the American one. It is not a question of competing with the Americans. It is a question of participating, together with the Americans, in order to make the whole system more secure.
In any event, you know that Council will have to give its definitive opinion on these issues at its last meeting in December and I hope that on that occasion we will finally clear up any ambiguities and doubts once and for all and we will move ahead with a project which is essential to the future of the European Union.
Secondly, what I have just said will clearly serve to integrate the Iberian Peninsula more with the rest of the European Union, just as the Rhine-Rhone project or the Paris-Stuttgart-Linz-Vienna, and, later, Budapest, rail project will serve to integrate the East with the rest of the current European Union.
The same can be said of the link between the Scandinavian Peninsula and the European continent by means of the new alternative connection to the Oresund Bridge, to the Oresund connection, which is also approved in the new plans.
Therefore, Mr Izquierdo Collado, it does serve to integrate the peripheral areas with the centre and, in this respect, it is cohesive.
As for the aforementioned 10% and 20% thresholds, these are financing possibilities. It does not mean that 10% or 20% will be granted. There are times when 5% is granted and is the maximum limit.
Second issue. We will have to see whether the Council and Parliament support it.
Third issue. It works for all modes of transport, because these trans-European networks do not only include the elements I have indicated. Generically, there is the interconnection between ports and their adjacent land area, that is, rail interconnections, land interconnections, the intermodal interconnection not only of the sea ports but also of river ports, the modal interconnections between rail and airport, for interconnection with the air sector, and the interconnection between rail and road, essentially in the freight sector. In other words, there is another series of generic elements that I have not expanded upon, which are also included in these networks.
In particular, we have to solve the problem of bottlenecks. In the case of bottlenecks, with much less action in terms of budget, we can achieve multiplier effects. Ten per cent of the road network and 20% of the rail network is affected by habitual bottlenecks. This does not mean that 20% of the rail network is a bottleneck. But there are problem points within this rail network that eventually effect 20% of the European rail network. Of course, we will try to ensure that funding is at the maximum level in these cases.
In relation to environmental impact, I maintain what has been said before. We have prepared all of this in common agreement with the department of Mrs Wallström and with the Commission’s Directorate-General for the Environment and we have agreed that we will continue to work jointly on its implementation and promotion."@en1
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