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"Madam President, Commissioner, I would first like to thank Mrs Wortmann-Kool for her dedicated and remarkable work. I will be voting in favour of this text tomorrow, albeit with some reluctance.
We are in fact talking about the financing of our ambitions, which appear in the 2001 White Paper and are meant to stabilise transport’s modal shares or even to finance alternative modes of transport. Those considerable ambitions were expressed in the 30 priority projects. We now know, however, that the TEN budget will not be as much as the Commission is asking for to finance the large-scale projects.
We might have expected the ‘Eurovignette’ directive to be much more ambitious. Unfortunately, it, too, is a subsidiary tool. Member States who do not want to apply it will not be required to do so.
It is also a tool designed mainly to use road transport to finance road transport. It would only finance other modes of transport occasionally. I am very much afraid that, in order to reach a compromise – and we should perhaps have used the conciliation procedure – the European Parliament will drop some of its ambitions tomorrow, that it will not be firm enough on external costs and in particular on the sunset clause that Mr El Khadraoui has tabled in an amendment. That means that if the Commission and the Member States fail to propose a directive within the time required, the automatic clause will apply."@en1
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