8 Amendments of Nicola CAPUTO related to 2017/0114(COD)
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) Congestion is becoming an increasingly serious problem, entailing high economic, social, and environmental costs, including delays, fuel waste, and additional CO2 and pollutant emissions.
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Time-based user charges, moreover, encourage drivers to travel more when their vignette is valid, thus making them misapply the ‘polluter pays’ principle and the ‘user pays’ principle.
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) Road congestion, to which all motor vehicles contribute in different proportions, represents a cost of about 1%- 2% of GDP. A significant part of this cost can be attributed to interurban congestion. A specific congestion charge should therefore be allowed, on condition that it is applied to all vehicle categories. In order to be effective and proportionate, the charge should be calculated on the basis of the marginal congestion cost and differentiated according to location, time and vehicle category. In order to maximise the positive effect of congestion charges, corresponding revenues should be allocated to projects addressing the sources of the problem.
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) Road charges can mobilise resources that contribute to the financing of the maintenance and development of high -quality transport infrastructure, to reducing road transport pollution, and to facilitating the production and wider use of zero-emission vehicles. It is therefore appropriate to incentivise Member States to use revenues from road charges accordingly and, to this end, to require that they adequately report on the use of such revenues. That should in particular help identifying possible financing gaps, and raising the public acceptance of road charging.
Amendment 142 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) In order to promote the use of the cleanest and most efficient vehicles, Member States should apply significantly reduced road tolls and user charges to those vehicles. While automated and connected technology allows heavy-duty vehicles to further reduce CO2 emissions’ when platooning, those vehicles should also be entitled to additional reduction of road tolls and user charges.
Amendment 202 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 1999/62/EC
Title
Title
Directive 1999/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 1999 on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of road infrastructures;
Amendment 210 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) tolls and user charges imposed on vehicles as defined in article 2(15).
Amendment 446 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 a (new)
Directive 1999//62/EC
Article 9 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 2 a (new)
(14 a) In Article 9, the following paragraph 2a is inserted: 2a. Call for the introduction of fullest and strictest earmaking and for the reinvestment of financial income from a toll charge to road infrastructure;