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"Madam President, Commissioner, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I am very much obliged to the rapporteur, who inherited this report, as it were, and has made quite outstanding progress with it in this parliamentary term.
I think that it is right that we have uniform rules at long last. After all, the 21st century should not go down in history as having robber barons still practising in Europe. It is also important, however, that the money generated from the infrastructure flows back into the infrastructure and is not just used for plugging budgetary holes.
Allow me to say a few things about the external costs. We also have to ask which costs are already internalised today and which are not. Is it possible that there is an external benefit against which they must be offset? The congestion costs have been internalised: they are paid by transport operators, because their lorries are not moving and thus cannot generate any gross national product. The social costs have been internalised via insurance premiums: may I make that very clear. In addition, as far as the environmental costs are concerned, we should not forget that every lorry and every car also pays vehicle and fuel tax.
It is unacceptable, therefore, for the transport sector to have to pay for everything, for funding, and on top of this for the money to flow into general budgets. I am a little surprised by what Mr Cramer says. I would recommend he take a look at the trend in the freight transport volume of Deutsche Bahn AG from September 1998 to October 2005. In the seven years in which his party shared power in the German Government, the volume of freight transport by rail fell by half. His party also imposed the environmental tax on the railways. I would advise him, therefore, not to give any speeches here about things for which, in essence, he is partly responsible. That is unacceptable."@en1
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