Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-14-Speech-2-019"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Community railways2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030114.1.2-019"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-14-Speech-2-0202
lpv:speaker	lp:Luciano Caveri2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2002-01-21--2003-07-07)3 member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (2002-03-07--2003-07-07)3 unknown; Union Valdôtaine (2000-06-21--2003-07-07)3 chair; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-21--2003-07-07)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (2002-02-07--2003-07-07)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Vice-President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I too would like to congratulate the rapporteurs, in particular on their close cooperation, because the interrelated nature of the package requires the reports to be relatively interdependent. I would also like to mention that the committee of which I am chairman has worked well on this matter, as always. It is no coincidence that, during 2002, the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism initiated 34 reports in the transport sector, seven of which focused precisely on the modernisation of the railways. It is quite clear, however, that the committee is concerned by certain delays in the Council and has made this clear in more or less formal terms. I, personally, have even written a letter to the Danish Presidency, and I will reiterate these same points to the Greek Transport Minister, Mr Verelis, who is coming to visit the committee and attend a hearing next week. The first railway package is closely related to the second railway package and, just like the carriages of a train, they must move forward, or else there will be a real danger of a kind of rail traffic jam. The second railway package is important, and I would like to say that our approach is not an ideological promotion of the railways, of which we are sometimes accused. I believe that the case of freight transport is extremely significant: the use of the railways is continuing to decline, despite all the good intentions expressed. When I consider specific cases which are particularly important to me such as the trans-Alpine routes, I find this totally unacceptable. I regret to say that there is no genuine European rail network. We are building it with these directives. It is strange that, with all their areas of sovereignty taken away from them, the only one remaining for the States in Europe is a kind of railway sovereignty, which we have got to break up and reshape in a European mould."@en1

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