Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-05-16-Speech-2-050"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-05-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Improvement of the environmental performance of the freight transport system ("Marco Polo II") (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060516.5.2-050"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-05-16-Speech-2-0512
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulrich Stockmann2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I, too, wish to thank the rapporteur for his considerable expertise and cooperative approach to the job. Since he has set out in detail what Marco Polo is all about and has also evaluated it, I propose to focus on just a few aspects of it. What is to be seen in a positive light is that the programme is markedly better funded and equipped than its predecessors, ranging from PACT 1 to Marco Polo 1, but it has to be said that its funding and equipment are not going to be equal to the challenge of modal shift, and that is why we need, first of all, to be vigilant in ensuring that the projects are, firstly, genuinely cross-border in nature, so as to ensure an added value for Europe, and, secondly, in ensuring that the reduction by half of the minimum threshold values for grants really does put SMEs in a stronger position and increase their share. Thirdly, more inland waterway transport projects must be completed than have been in the past, and, fourthly, those national programmes that are either already in place or needed for the future must, at long last, be coordinated. Fifthly, attention should be paid to reviewing the instruments’ sustainability, which will involve the Commission in evaluating which projects are still operational after a period of between six and ten years, with the Commission – sixthly – reviewing which of the rejected projects are completed even without support, so that the induced effects of future programmes may be minimised. Mr Rack's report is, overall, uncontentious, and should be implemented as policy with the greatest possible speed; the added value of these measures will be immediately visible to the public, and that is something for which time is needed."@en1

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