3 Amendments of Joëlle MÉLIN related to 2017/2257(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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1. Supports the Commission communication of 31 May 2017 entitled ‘Europe on the Move’ (COM(2017)0283), particularly as regards the need to shift rapidly towards zero-emissions road mobility, intermodality, shared mobility and the development of connected and automated vehicles through the integration of infrastructure, energy and digital networks; notes that this approach will make the European Union Member States very dependent on rare metals and rare earths, and that the extraction of those minerals, which are mainly produced in China, is damaging to the environment;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
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3. Highlights that for this purpose it will be necessary to incUnderlines that electro-mobility is an interesting alternative to road transport and the use of vehicles that consume fuel, and that its impact on air pollution in cities will necessarily be beneficial since emissions of pollutants from vehicles will be zero; streasses that the use of electro-mobility and alternative fuelsis a success in its public transport version, as roadail transport is responsible for one fifth of EU emissions, and this figure is increasing; underlines the need to reduce the gap between stated decarbonisation targets and real on-road emissionshas the lowest carbon impact per user; stresses however that electro- mobility and electric cars require the use of batteries to store energy and that these batteries are responsible for pollution which the European Union has relocated to the third countries that produce the ores and rare metals essential to the production of these batteries; notes that electro-mobility requires the production of a large quantity of energy and that its production, no matter what the version, increases emissions and/or environmental pollution;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
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4. Supports the increased use of digital technologies in the implementation of the ‘polluter pays’ principle, such as the electronic toll based on environmental performances ofproduction of an independent study on the real ecological impact required by the production of electric vehicles;