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Madam President, the topic of urban transport, I would like to inform the honourable Members − ‘fellow Members’ always comes to my mind first, it must be force of habit; I have only been a commissioner for a few months whereas I was an MEP for many years and evidently I still feel part of this Parliament − was one of the topics at the informal Council in La Rochelle on 1 and 2 September 2008, and was discussed at length. The Commission and the Member States gave the issue a great deal of attention, inviting experts, mayors of large and medium-sized cities and specialists in the sector to talk about urban transport.
I spoke on this subject myself at the Road Safety Day that took place a few days ago in Paris – the official Commission and Council day during Road Safety Week – emphasising that road safety must also mean a good urban transport system: our roads will become safer, above all in big cities, if there is a good urban transport system. In my view, this will inevitably reduce the number of victims of accidents that occur in big cities, where there is the greatest number of accidents and the greatest number of victims.
The Commission is drawing up an action plan on urban mobility based on the consultations that followed the publication of the Green Paper. We intend to present the plan before the end of this year. This plan will include proposals for definite actions at European Union level for the coming years.
Clearly the European Commission does not have jurisdiction on this: these are areas that concern the Member States, but we, on the basis of the principle of subsidiarity which, as you all know, is derived from the word
want to help the Member States and the mayors of large cities. The former mayor of Milan, Gabriele Albertini, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, can testify to all this: through this action plan, we will ensure that all of the information we have, all of the advice, all of the ideas, all of the suggestions, can be made available to all cities, above all the big cities with traffic problems.
The action plan will also assist policy makers at local, regional and national level, in full respect – I repeat, full respect – of the principle of subsidiarity. The actions we will propose will help to cut costs, to guarantee the proper funding of the single market and to create new markets for new technologies, developing sustainable urban mobility. It is no coincidence that only yesterday evening, the debate was concluded and a vote taken on a directive that should encourage, that is aimed at encouraging, local authorities to purchase means of public transport with reduced harmful gas emissions.
Today, however, it is still too early to outline or be specific about the content of the action plan, but we nonetheless expect, and you can expect, it to cover the breaking up of rules on access to green areas, urban goods transport and logistics, better information on public transport systems in European cities or broad plans on sustainable urban mobility and proposals on ways to integrate urban planning and mobility. The action plan may also include proposals on information sharing and for improved data collection and research practices, and may even tackle the issue of funding, which is an extremely delicate question. This, I repeat, will all be based on respect for the principle of subsidiarity."@en1
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