142 Amendments of Ciarán CUFFE related to 2021/2046(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
— having regard to Parliament resolution of 20 October 2020 with recommendations to the Commission on a framework of ethical aspects of artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies (2020/2012(INL)),
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 b (new)
Citation 8 b (new)
— having regard to the European Climate Law and the emission reduction and climate neutrality targets therein1a _________________ 1aAmended proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 (European Climate Law)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 c (new)
Citation 8 c (new)
— having regard to the Parliament resolution of 28 November 2019 on the Climate and environmental emergency1a _________________ 1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/TA-9-2019-0078_EN.html
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 d (new)
Citation 8 d (new)
— having regard to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Green Deal outlines that the transport sector needs to cut at least 90 % of its emissions by 2050unfolding climate crisis necessitates the EU to go fully climate neutral by 2050 at the very latest;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas only 22 % of the total transport workforce are women; whereas the design of the transport system and transport infrastructure often fails to cater to the specific needs of women, which in some cases can also have lethal consequences, for example increased fatalities due to the fact that crash test dummies have been based on the average male body;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas a study1a commissioned by the European Commission found that in 2016 the total external costs to society due to transport in terms of climate change, noise pollution, air pollution, congestion, well-to-tank emissions, accidents and habitat damage each year amounted to € 987 billion; whereas these negative externalities disproportionately affect those on lower incomes; _________________ 1aHandbook on the external costs of transport version 2019
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas 18,800 people died on EU roads in 2020 and around 120,000 are seriously injured each year, figures that are unacceptably high and entirely avoidable and which require urgent action; whereas progress in reducing these figures has stagnated in recent years and the EU’s target of halving the number of road deaths between 2010 and 2020 was not met;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
Hc. whereas the share of road deaths of vulnerable road users is increasing, as car users have been the main beneficiaries of improved vehicle safety and other road safety measures; whereas the safety of cyclists and pedestrians must be urgently addressed;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H d (new)
Recital H d (new)
Hd. whereas 40 % of all road deaths in the EU are work-related, with an even higher percentage if commuting to work is also included; whereas driver fatigue is common on EU roads;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H e (new)
Recital H e (new)
He. whereas deregulation1a and privatisation in the transport sector have also had a detrimental effect on working conditions (notably in aviation and road freight) and service provision; _________________ 1a www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ STUD/2016/587285/IPOL_STU(2016)587 285_EN.pdf
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H f (new)
Recital H f (new)
Hf. whereas the aviation and maritime sectors have been largely excluded from decarbonisation efforts in the EU; whereas both sectors are among the most polluting and yet are expected to see significant growth in their emissions in the coming years; whereas a EASA report found that the non-CO2 effects of aviation are currently unregulated within the EU, despite warming the climate around three times more than CO2 emissions from aviation;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H g (new)
Recital H g (new)
Hg. whereas the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has found that TEN-T mega-projects do not represent good value for money for EU taxpayers’ and are often seriously delayed1a;whereas their construction can be an enormous source of CO2 emissions that can offset the gains expected from their completion, particularly with a 2050 horizon life-cycle assessment and given the recurrent delays also exposed by ECA; _________________ 1aSpecial Report 10/2020: EU transport infrastructures: more speed needed in megaproject implementation to deliver network effects on time
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H h (new)
Recital H h (new)
Hh. whereas the European Environmental Agency (EEA) estimates that in 2018 long-term exposure to particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less (PM 2.5) in Europe was responsible for approximately 417 000 premature deaths, of which around 379 000 were in the EU-28; whereas EU thresholds are well above WHO guidelines for most pollutants, with special concern regarding the lack of a daily limit for PM2.5; whereas like Covid- 19, this represents a public health emergency that requires immediate action;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H i (new)
Recital H i (new)
Hi. whereas the WHO has classified traffic noise as the second most important cause of ill health in Western Europe; whereas long-term exposure to environmental noise is estimated to be the cause of 12,000 premature deaths in Europe, and to contribute to 48,000 new cases of ischemic heart disease each year; whereas the EEA estimates that 22 million people suffer from chronic high annoyance and 6.5 million people suffer chronic high sleep disturbance due to noise pollution, while 12,500 school children suffer learning impairments at school due to noise produced from aircraft;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H j (new)
Recital H j (new)
Hj. whereas more than half a million deaths each year in the EU can be attributed to a higher than ideal body mass index (BMI) and almost 60% of EU adults had high BMI in 2016; whereas 19-29% of the adult population across different Member States is affected by obesity; whereas Member States spend almost 7 percent of their budgets treating health conditions related to obesity including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer; whereas costs related to obesity amount to €70 billion; whereas active mobility contributes to tackling these health issues and could play an even greater role with EU support1a; _________________ 1ahttps://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/world- obesity-day-23-adults-eu-live-obesity- another-36-pre-obesity-silent-health-crisis
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H k (new)
Recital H k (new)
Hk. whereas the transport sector is amongst the sectors hardest hit by the Covid-19 crisis that has had a detrimental effect on transport workers’ working conditions; whereas we are seeing trends such as an increase in the use of private cars and reduced public transport use that will strongly and negatively impact efforts towards the achievement of the EU’s climate and social objectives;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H l (new)
Recital H l (new)
Hl. whereas modal shift is an essential aspect of any transport policy framework aimed at improving the environmental and social performance of mobility, by contributing to a better use of existing capacity and to an increase in the efficiency of the transport system as a whole;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H m (new)
Recital H m (new)
Hm. whereas around 40% of transport emissions come from urban areas; whereas modal shift from private cars to more sustainable modes like public transport has been very slow since 1996 with only a slight decrease in passenger cars’ modal share from 73,2% to 71% between 1996 and 2016;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H n (new)
Recital H n (new)
Hn. whereas according to the ECA (Special Report 06/2020) congestion is one of the biggest challenges to urban mobility, affecting most Europeans and costing around €270 billion a year; whereas this can not only reduce worker productivity by up to 30% but lowers the efficiency of the wider European transport network and contributes massively to air pollution; whereas the ECA considers that the Urban Mobility Package has so far not achieved the necessary step-change in urban mobility patterns;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H o (new)
Recital H o (new)
Ho. whereas even accounting for Covid-19, international aviation emissions are expected to rise by 220-290% by 2050; whereas aviation’s emissions covered by the EU ETS have increased on average by 5% year-on-year between 2013 and 2018with free allowances provided to airline operators for 45.5% of their emissions in 2018; whereas aviation non- CO2 emissions are currently warming the climate at approximately three times the rate of that associated with aviation CO2 emissions alone1a _________________ 1aEASA, Updated analysis of the non- CO2 climate impacts of aviation and potential policy measures pursuant to EU Emissions Trading System Directive Article 30(4)
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H p (new)
Recital H p (new)
Hp. whereas shipping still represents a major source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, which are expected to increase by 50% by 2050; whereas shipping remains the only transport sector currently not yet contributing to the EU’s emissions reduction efforts; whereas SOX emissions from ships remain a large source of pollution in European ports despite new sulphur standards;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H q (new)
Recital H q (new)
Hq. whereas most mobility by train within the Union is for daily commutes, but nonetheless most of the investments are directed to high-speed railway infrastructure used only by a minority of the population; whereas investments in support for regional and suburban rail would represent better value for money and serve a larger group of people;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H r (new)
Recital H r (new)
Hr. whereas the TEN-T Guidelines and the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Directive should only promote the EU- wide deployment of innovative transport solutions, namely zero-emission mobility, and fully renewables-based and sustainable alternative fuels, respectively, if we are to meet our climate and zero pollution objectives;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H s (new)
Recital H s (new)
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H t (new)
Recital H t (new)
Ht. whereas the European Environmental Agency notes that Europe's biodiversity continues to be eroded resulting in ecosystem degradation and that 60% of species assessments and 77% of habitat assessments continue to be in an unfavourable conservation status; whereas transport and transport infrastructure play a major role in this biodiversity crisis;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H u (new)
Recital H u (new)
Hu. whereas tourism and especially overtourism can have negative environmental and economic impacts such as increased pollution, loss of biodiversity, congestion, infrastructure maintenance costs and rising prices, as documented in the TRAN study ‘Overtourism: impact and possible policy responses’1a _________________ 1aResearch for TRAN Committee - Overtourism: impact and possible policy responses
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H v (new)
Recital H v (new)
Hv. whereas all EU citizens should have a right to sustainable, accessible, affordable, safe and secure mobility;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s sustainable and smart mobility strategy and supports its ambition to achieve a climate- neutral, digitalised, competitive, resilient and efficient transport sector; regrets that not enough ambition nor concretion is established towards making transport socially just, more accessible and affordable; expresses its disappointment moreover that the strategy fails to envision a fully climate-neutral transport sector by 2050;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the sustainable and smart mobility transformation through the Next Generation EU recovery package and European Structural and Investment Funds, with absolute priority given to public transport and active mobility;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Regrets the link made between sustainability and growth and notes that the model of endless growth for the transport sector is inherently unsustainable given limited resources that are unfairly distributed; calls therefore on the Commission to adopt sufficiency and redistributive policies that lower the consumption of materials and energy by reducing superfluous demand for products and services and ensure a fairer allocation of resources that meets the mobility needs of all in society;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Calls for the Commission to regularly monitor whether the policy actions proposed in the Strategy are enough to ensure the end of the transport sector’s reliance on fossil fuels, its transition towards climate neutrality and its contribution to achieving the zero pollution objective, and to propose additional measures and/or higher ambition when needed;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Calls on the Commission to revise its state aid guidelines to allow Member States to only promote truly sustainable transport modes; in this regard believes that state aid guidelines for airlines and airports must be aligned to the European Green Deal in order to ensure that aid is conditional upon greater sustainability efforts, elimination of short and medium haul flights where sustainable alternatives exist, and the protection of workers’ rights; regrets that state aid provided since the start of Covid-19 has not been subject to such provisions
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Calls on the European Commission to come forward with a revised proposal on combined transport as soon as possible in order to accelerate modal shift;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2f. Believes the revision of the trans- European transport network guidelines1a should establish as its main priority comprehensive modal shift towards sustainable transport modes in order to guarantee greater access to sustainable transport; _________________ 1a[1] Regulation(EU) No 1315/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December2013 on Union guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network and repealing Decision No 661/2010/EU Text with EEA relevance
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2g. Urges the Commission to take account of induced demand and the rebound effect in all of its transport policy decisions and financing of transport infrastructure, as well as the impact both phenomena have on negative externalities; believes that the Commission should not make decisions or provide funding to projects that significantly increase negative externalities;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 h (new)
Paragraph 2 h (new)
2h. Calls on the Commission to encourage all Member States to put in place a sustainable rural mobility policy by 2025 at the latest, with the aim of ensuring people in these areas have access to sustainable mobility options and specifically addressing the needs of remote and low-density areas; in this regard calls for a focus on reducing the number and length of trips and the promotion of sustainable shared mobility and public transport; calls for a rural equivalent to Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans at EU level to support such plans;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 i (new)
Paragraph 2 i (new)
2i. Notes that the world’s economy uses the equivalent of 1.5 planets’ worth of resources meaning that 3 planets would be needed if everyone consumed at the rate of the average EU resident; stresses the importance of binding targets for the creation of a toxic-free and fully circular economy within planetary boundaries by 2050 at the very latest;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Commission’s efforts to accelerate the uptake of zero- emission vehicles and zero-emission fuels; stresses that the Commission should aim for a relative percentage rather than an absolute figure of EVs and recalls that in 2018 there were at least 230 million passenger cars in the EU; calls on the Commission to aim for higher number relative percentages of zero-emission light- and heavy-duty vehicles by 2030 and to propose more stringent CO2 standards and air-pollutant emission standards;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes however that the single most effective way to incentivise innovation, provide clarity to industry, and bring about sustainability in road transport, is to ensure a continuous reduction of emissions via more frequent CO2 standards reduction targets to reach a 0g CO2/km target by 2030 at the latest;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses the need to increase the ambition of the current car and vans CO2 targets, in particular raising the 2025 target, adding an additional 2027 target, and setting ambitious ZEV mandates for vans to ensure road transport can contribute to meeting the new 2030 GHG targets; calls for the emissions from vehicle tyres and brakes to be addressed as a matter of urgency;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Highlights the importance of the EU heavy-duty vehicle CO2 targets (Regulation (EU) 2019/1242) in reducing CO2 emissions from trucks, buses and coaches and promoting the production and uptake of zero-emission vehicles in these segments; underlines the necessity to significantly increase the regulatory ambition in the upcoming review of the Regulation in 2022;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Calls on the European Commission to set an EU-wide end date for the sale of new cars, vans, lighter trucks and buses with internal combustion engines by 2030 at the latest, and for heavier trucks and coaches before 2040, which will set Europe’s road transport sector on a clear pathway to delivering the emission and pollution reductions needed to meet the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Notes the rising trend in vehicle design over recent years towards heavier and larger light duty vehicles, such as Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs), and the negative impact that such vehicles have not only on road safety but also the environment; Calls on the Commission and Member States to impose a minimum mandatory surcharge on heavy private vehicles such as SUVs at the point of sale based on tonnage due to the greater threat to road safety posed by such vehicles as well as their increased emissions and use of materials needed for their production;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 f (new)
Paragraph 3 f (new)
3f. Notes that the replacement of all existing vehicles with zero-emission vehicles brings its own problems in terms of additional and substantial well-to- wheel emissions, use of materials, as well as continued serious congestion and road safety issues; recommends therefore that the absolute priority of the EU should be modal shift and public transport rather than policies that foster private car ownership;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 g (new)
Paragraph 3 g (new)
3g. Underlines the fact that corporate vehicle fleets (of both passenger vehicles and vans) across the EU account for 20% of total light and heavy-duty vehicles, but are responsible for half the emissions from road transport; Calls on the Commission to propose a new Zero Emission Fleets Regulation mandating any company with a fleet size of 25 vehicles or more to acquire at least half of its new cars and vans as zero emission vehicles from 2025 and 100% from 2030, as well as requiring high-mileage fleets (i.e. taxi, private hire, delivery vans, etc.) in urban areas to go zero emission by 2030;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 h (new)
Paragraph 3 h (new)
3h. Regrets that significant amounts of EU money continue to be spent on new roads, road expansion or airports despite the risk of induced demand; believes EU money would be much better spent on sustainable transport modes and on improving safety;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to propose binding targets for Member States for public charging points as well as for hydrogen refuelling stations(for both light duty vehicles and heavy duty vehicles) along TEN-T networks, at key urban areas, at public parking facilities, logistic centres and on the number of public charge points to be deployed per country, starting in 2025, as well as for refuelling stations for hydrogen sourced solely from additional renewable energy; believes the charging points should offer ad hoc charging by default via commonly available payment methods and display transparent tariffs in advance, during and after charging; believes that Directive 2014/94/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure2 should be transformed into a regulationcover zero emission infrastructure only; _________________ 2 OJ L 307 28.10.2014, p. 1.
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Deplores that low-carbon fuels are referenced throughout the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy and that measures to promote them are foreseen, especially in relation to the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive; urges the Commission to safeguard the scope of the directive which is to promote sustainable renewable energy and not, whether directly or indirectly, energy from fossil or nuclear sources; calls also in this context for the deletion of the recycled Carbon Fuels (RCFs) from the renewable transport targets;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that zero-emission fuels, such as cleanrenewable hydrogen and renewable synthetic fuels, should be usproduced from additional renewable capacity deployed in proportion with the need for renewable fuels and should be employed in accordance with the ‘energy efficiency first’ principle, mainly for those transport modenamely in those hard-to-abate transport applications where direct renewable electrification is not possible or not yet market-ready;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to conduct a comprehensive assessment of options for the greater uptake of renewables-based alternative fuels, such as advanced biofuels, renewable hydrogen, ammonia and e-kerosene, and associated infrastructure development in the EU, only in those transport applications and hard-to-abate sectors where renewables-based electrification or other cost-effective technical alternatives for achieving zero-emissions are not available, such as the aviation and the maritime sectors, as part of the review of RED II; fully rejects all unsustainable or low-carbon fuels such as non-renewable hydrogen, biofuels, LNG and CNG as fuels for the transport sector given their negative impact on the environment; views such investments as funding for stranded assets and rejects their inclusion in the revision of the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Directive; notes that the International Energy Agency has stated that in order to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 there should be no new oil, fossil gas and coal projects1a; _________________ 1aNetZero by 2050 A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on Member States to swiftly implement the Clean Energy Package and calls on the Commission to come forward with ambitious revisions of the relevant energy and climate legislations in the “fit for 55 Package” in order to facilitate the production, integration and management of the increased additional renewable electricity needed to achieve climate neutrality as well as the zero pollution objective in the transport sector;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to further support industrial alliances like the European Battery Alliance and the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance; stresses that the State aid rules relevant to transportensure the inclusive design of industrial alliances based on transparency, balanced representation of the various stakeholders, continuous openness and sufficient opportunities for genuine participation for such divergent stakeholders, in order to prevent domination by private interest; stresses that the State aid rules relevant to transport (notably the Temporary State Aid Framework) should be geared towards the objective of climate neutrality and that there should be no public support for polluting sectors other than when supporting workers’ in a just transition; believes these rules should be revised to enable more public support to develop and deploy clean and smart mobility technologies and their related industries; calls on the Commission and the Member States to support sustainable strategic value chains;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for a ban on the export from the EU of second-hand vehicles that do not possess a road safety certificate or have emission standards lower than Euro 5, given the impact the export of these vehicles has on road safety, emissions and pollution in third countries;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Highlights analysis of the EU Strategy for Energy System Integration1a as stating that ‘overall, applicable taxes and levies, including carbon pricing, are not applied homogeneously across energy carriers and sectors, and create distortions towards the use of specific carriers’; _________________ 1aPowering a climate-neutral economy: An EU Strategy for Energy System Integration COM/2020/299final
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on Commission and Member States to boost the sector integration of the transport and power sectors, notably by appropriately rewarding consumer demand side management and through requiring smart functionalities for batteries, charging infrastructure and the development of Vehicle to Grid Services in the relevant legislations, including the Alternative Fuels Directive; points to the required enabling framework for active consumers and energy communities generating, storing and using their own renewable energy and contributing to the balancing of the grid through home batteries or electric vehicles, thus minimising the infrastructural constraints to absorb an increasing demand for electric vehicles;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Recognises that a true shift to zero-emissions vehicles will not only require a reduction in tail pipe emissions but also a reduction in the emissions associated with the production of the materials used in vehicles; calls on the Commission to assess the feasibility of setting declining mandatory limits on the embedded life cycle emissions of materials used in vehicles and options for mandatory minimum quotas for recycled material content in vehicles;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Calls on the Commission to urgently table a proposal for revision of Directive1999/94/EC relating to the availability of consumer information on fuel economy and CO2 emissions in respect of the marketing of new passenger cars so that consumers have the right information when purchasing a car, notably on the real-life emissions of vehicles and their embodied carbon; expects the revised Directive to take into account market developments such as the increased supply of electric vehicles in the EU; recalls that the European Commission committed to presenting a revision of the Directive by the end of 2020;
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 f (new)
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6f. Calls on the Commission to introduce in the upcoming Energy Performance of Buildings Directive1a revision a holistic integrated renovation programmes (IRPs) approach as to maximise the synergies between the buildings sector, district energy systems, mobility plans and the general environment; invites the Commission to introduce requirements for dedicated spaces for sustainable, collective and soft mobility modes, such as zero-emission car-sharing, e-scooters or bikes and to further enhance provisions on smart charging infrastructure requirements for e-mobility; _________________ 1aDirective 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 May 2010 on the energy performance of buildings
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the announced proposals on sustainable fuels for aviation and maritime; underlines that any use of biofuels needs to meet the EU sustainability criteria, whichthese proposals should focus on the uptake of hydrogen and ammonia produced from additional renewable energy and clearly exclude crop-based biofuels and other alternative fuels produced from feedstocks that cannot be locally sourced in a sustainable way; calls on the Commission to propose strong sustainability requirements that fully respect the ‘do not significant harm’ principle and adequately take life- cycle greenhouse gas emissions into account; insists on accompanying measures to ensure employees’ health and safety as well as proper training on the handling of sustainable alternative fuels;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to provide incentives for, and support research into and the development of alternative propulsion systems that use direct renewable electricity or fuel cells in the maritime and aviation sectorsalternative zero-emission propulsion systems like wind-assisted propulsion for shipping, as well as renewable electrofuels for long-distance transport in the maritime and aviation sectors where direct electrification is not yet possible;
Amendment 317 #
8a. Calls on the Commission to ensure the uptake of zero-emission vessels through regulatory and financial support mechanisms, including stringent EU energy carbon intensity standards for ships, increased funding for R&D and support for deployment of zero-emission technologies for example through Contracts for Difference (CfD);
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Highlights the importance of energy efficiency measures to cut emissions from maritime transport; calls on the Commission to promote energy efficiency improvements of vessels by defining requirements in upcoming legislation; underlines that to be fair and cost-efficient, the FuelEU Maritime regulation should apply beyond intra-EU voyages and cover the full scope of the EU MRV regulation;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Calls on the Commission to mandate zero-emission control zones in ports including through shore-side power requirements; Calls on the Commission to oblige docked ships to use shore-side electricity sourced from renewable sources, to eliminate GHG and air- polluting emissions at berth and reach the objective of zero emissions while at berth as soon as possible and by 2030 at the latest;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Believes that all new ships ordered for EU waters should be zero-emission capable, calls for widespread infrastructure for ships to refuel with sustainable renewable alternative marine fuels and for partial sail power, on-board solar and wind energy and slow steaming, which are hugely beneficial fuel-savers, as well as short-sea shipping;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8e. Calls for a moratorium on aviation agreements between the EU and third countries that significantly increase flight capacity given the negative impact of long-haul aviation on the climate and the induced demand for aviation brought about by such agreements; calls instead for aviation safety, together with climate and environmental ambition, to be the primary focus of any new aviation agreements with third countries;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 f (new)
Paragraph 8 f (new)
8f. Calls for the Commission to consider as part of the revision of the airport slots regulation, reducing the total number of airport slots within the EU over time and providing greater flexibility to air carriers that agree to binding commitments on the elimination of short haul flights and the use of sustainable aviation fuels; stresses moreover that the perverse incentive to operate even empty flights in order to retain grandfathering rights must be reformed in order to align slots legislation with the European Green Deal;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 g (new)
Paragraph 8 g (new)
8g. Considers that airport charges should be updated, in order among other things to contribute safeguarding working conditions and to internalise the environmental impacts of flights, such as air and noise pollution; suggests to additionally introduce a common levy per each flight operated in an airport, regardless of its distance;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 h (new)
Paragraph 8 h (new)
8h. Invites the Commission to elaborate on the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy goal of a better use of inland waterways into cities in a sustainable way, with specific measures in order to meet the increasing demand of logistics in congested urban areas where the expansion of land transport infrastructure is challenging and expensive while waterways are an existing asset;
Amendment 349 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 i (new)
Paragraph 8 i (new)
8i. Highlights that zero-emission alternatives for inland vessels should become more financially attractive than conventional propulsion and that this trend should be accelerated, for example by a smart mix of grants and loans
Amendment 351 #
9. Welcomes the Commission’s idea to only offer consumers carbonlimate-neutral choices for scheduled collective travel by 2030, but underlines that these choices should be available for journeys up to 1 000 kmexclude carbon offsetting mechanisms and should be available for journeys up to 1 000 km, within a system developed by the Commission that identifies available alternatives within reasonable amounts of time; believes that short-haul flights where sustainable alternatives exist should be phased out, with possible exemptions only for remote and peripheral regions; calls in this regard for a multimodal ticketing solution that ensures seamless travel for those making connections; calls on the Commission to come forward with a map of the most popular and carbon-intensive journeys in the EU and a plan on how to decarbonise them, including legal measures;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need to complete missing cross-border rail links to improve interurban cross-country connections, in particular small and medium scale rail links;
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Underlines that rail is the most energy-efficient mode for mass passenger transport and the least emitting for freight transport in Europe; welcomes that the strategy is setting targets for increasing rail transport but calls for a substantially higher ambition considering that a wider transition from road to rail would be key to achieve the EU’s energy efficiency and climate objectives; Recalls the importance of last mile rail infrastructure for freight, ERTMS and digital automatic coupling;
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Repeats the call for an EU connectivity index as set out in the European Year of Rail aimed at categorising the consistency, quality and diversity of the offer as well as full accessibility for people with reduced mobility and persons with disabilities and intermodal options that show the integration of the network1a; _________________ 1aDecision(EU) 2020/2228 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 December 2020 on a European Year of Rail (2021)
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Calls for financial incentives and public investment into the purchase and retrofitting of rolling stock (including for the greater rollout of night trains) that includes greater space for bicycles as well as noise reduction measures; believes night trains represent an environmentally-friendly and competitive alternative in international transport and should be supported to the maximum extent possible, particularly as regards facilitating cross-border connections;
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)
Paragraph 10 d (new)
10d. Calls on the European Commission to revise the rail infrastructure charges framework in order to support the rail sector and promote the most efficient use of the network;
Amendment 399 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 e (new)
Paragraph 10 e (new)
10e. Believes the European Railway Agency’s (ERA) budget should be increased in order to support the Union’s objectives on modal shift; suggests that the ERA be involved in implementing railway infrastructure projects under TEN-T; suggests strengthening the role of the European coordinators, particularly as regards their added-value in bridging the administrative gaps to ensure the completion of missing cross-border rail links; recommends establishing binding targets for incremental ERTMS deployment, to ensure its due completion by 2030; urges the Commission to prioritise the upgrade of rail connections to sea and inland waterways ports to support modal shift and enhance sustainable logistics; recommends that TEN-T projects that have a clear negative climate balance by 2050 should be put on hold or scrapped;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 f (new)
Paragraph 10 f (new)
10f. Stresses that, in order to transition to a genuinely smart and sustainable mobility, infrastructure projects should be assessed against their climate impact, calculated in terms of direct and indirect emissions along the life cycle, as well as social and cohesion criteria, and in particular their acceptance by local communities; also stresses that infrastructure projects should guarantee a high level of transparency, providing access to all relevant documents, especially those related to their impacts on the environment and public health; calls for financing to infrastructure projects whose operation emission savings by 2050 - compared to the baseline scenario - do not offset the construction related emissions, like the Lyon-Turin high-speed rail connection, to be immediately halted;
Amendment 401 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 g (new)
Paragraph 10 g (new)
10g. Welcomes the willingness of the Commission to boost long distance and cross border rail services and to propose regulatory measures to enable innovative and flexible tickets that combine different modes of transport; encourages the Commission therefore to take the necessary legislative measures to promote rail passenger services, particularly in the areas of ticketing, access to a minimum set of static and dynamic non-personal data on fair, reasonable and non- discriminatory conditions for all transport stakeholders and, to ensure that travellers are better protected in their combined cross-border rail journeys involving multiple railway undertakings;
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 h (new)
Paragraph 10 h (new)
10h. Urges the Commission to introduce binding targets in Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs); notes that demand management and land-use planning can lower traffic volumes; stresses that facilitating active mobility should become an integral part of urban mobility and infrastructure design, which should be included within SUMPs, where the Commission already recommends including road safety as a horizontal objective;
Amendment 403 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 i (new)
Paragraph 10 i (new)
10i. Calls moreover on the Commission to establish an indicator on the use of EU funds for improving urban road safety, and particularly ensuring the highest design standards to protect vulnerable road users and foster active mobility, not only for reporting purposes but also in view of making SUMPs a condition for the receipt of EU funding for urban infrastructure; calls on the Commission to better integrate EU road safety targets and actions within the Guidelines of the SUMPs by monitoring and promoting good practice;
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to significantly increase their efforts to increase the share of walking and cycling in urban and rural areas, cycling and micromobility in urban and rural areas; believes the Commission should do its utmost to ensure the cycling and walking infrastructure put in place in Member States as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic remains in place and is expanded in order to further promote safe active mobility, which has also significant health benefits; in this regard, calls on the Commission to publish a strategy on active mobility to capitalise on these changes as well as mobilise funding;
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission to prioritise active mobility and public transport in the TEN-T revision under urban nodes, particularly as regards funding, including creating a link with SUMPs; calls for the inclusion of the EuroVelo cycling network as an integral part of the TEN-T network, namely as a separate priority with its own coordinator; stresses the importance of ensuring continuous walking and cycling paths in TEN-T projects and of guaranteeing that the TEN-T network does not create barriers for active mobility users;
Amendment 433 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Stresses the importance of improving liveability in urban areas and welcomes plans for supporting the creation of climate-neutral cities; underlines in this regard the importance of reducing the centrality of private motorised vehicles in the public realm in order to reallocate more public space to citizens and children in particular; welcomes the European-wide annual car- free Sunday initiative given its widespread popularity and positive impact on road safety and other negative externalities, and suggests to increase its frequency;
Amendment 439 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Urges EU support for e-bikes and cargo bikes; notes that cargo bikes have huge potential for transporting goods in urban areas including last-mile logistics, and can play an important role in reducing congestion, emissions and pollution;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)
Paragraph 11 d (new)
11d. Underlines the need for a behavioural change to shift towards sustainable urban mobility and recommends engagement with cities and regions to provide incentives for citizens and businesses to use alternative sustainable modes of mobility;
Amendment 451 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to propose zero-emission mobility solutions that include the first and the last mile, thereby integrating the use of sustainable public transport and private mobility solutions;
Amendment 462 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Underlines that more sustainable and healthier urban and interurban mobility can only be achieved through proper deployment of public transport; calls on the Commission to propose tools to increase modal shift towards sustainable mass transit solutions;
Amendment 466 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Looks forward to a revised Urban Mobility Package, which should aim at tackling congestion effectively by means of a more ambitions modal shift towards sustainable public transport, active mobility and micromobility; notes that the ECA has found that progress since the 2013 Urban mobility package has been very slow, and fully agrees that EU co- funding in the domain of urban mobility must be subject to the timely submission of adequate SUMPs1a, and that better data on urban mobility is required; urges the Commission to fully exploit the synergies between road safety and sustainability in the Urban Mobility Package; _________________ 1aSpecial Report 06/2020 - Sustainable Urban Mobility in the EU: No substantial improvement is possible without Member States’ commitment
Amendment 471 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Encourages the Commission to change its focus when it comes to rail, so that investments are targeted not only at long-distance and high-speed trains, but to upgrading the existing network and commuter train services through an action plan for regional and suburban trains;
Amendment 472 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 d (new)
Paragraph 12 d (new)
12d. Calls for the development of guidelines on the implementation of measures to fully internalising the negative externalities transport in urban areas; stresses that modal shift will never be achieved without the introduction of constraints and additional costs on the use of private car;
Amendment 479 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the Commission’s continued support to shift freight transport towards rail and inland waterways; regrets the fact that, despite these efforts, the share of road freight transport has increased in recent years; urges the Commission to come forward with ambitious and binding modal shift targets for both passenger and freight for 2030, 2040 and2050; regrets that rail freight traffic is foreseen only to double by 2050, and believes more ambition is needed;
Amendment 500 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Considers that proper interoperability and the widespread establishment of adequate intermodal exchange hubs for freight are crucial elements to ensure that the modal shift targets will be met for the transport of goods;
Amendment 517 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the needat it is crucial to complete the internalisation of external costs for all modes of transport by 2030 at the latest; adds that reducing the negative externalities due to transport not only improves well-being but also mobility and productivity; urges for the ‘polluter pays’ and ‘user pays’ principles to be implemented in full;
Amendment 538 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the full inclusion of the intra-EU and international maritime sector in the EU emissions trading system (ETS) and the planned reduccalls for the elimination of allowances allocated for free to the aviation sector;
Amendment 540 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. calls on the Commission to ensure the EU ETS’ ambition is not weakened by international offsetting schemes and remains fully in line with a 65% GHG reduction target for 2030 and climate neutrality goal by 2050 by making 2019 the peak year for aviation emissions; strongly believes that the scope of the ETS should be enlarged to cover international aviation;
Amendment 544 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Amendment 546 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Strongly regrets the fact that the EU agreed to change the baseline year in CORSIA; calls for regulatory action from the Commission to implement the recommendations of the EASA report on the non-CO2 effects of aviation and for this action to be immediate; calls for an end to the tax exemption on VAT for intra-EU airline tickets;
Amendment 548 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Rejects the direct inclusion of emissions from road transport in the EU ETS, including the setting up of any kind of parallel scheme, a policy that would have a regressive impact on those less able to pay in society; calls instead on the Commission to focus its effort on securing EU-wide distance-based charging for all vehicles in the proposal for a Directive on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures 2017/0114(COD); recalls that the European Parliament already expressed its opposition to ETS for road transport;
Amendment 563 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Insists on the phasing-out of direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies by 2022 in the Union and in each Member State, and considers the revision of the Energy Taxation Directive as the best possibility to achieve a stable and predictable carbon price; calls on the Commission to propose an ambitious reform that puts an end to all harmful tax exemptions for fossil fuels and strictly applies the polluter pays principle, setting with it EU-wide credible minimum taxation rates to come into force; urges the Commission especially to put an end without delay to the tax exemption on jet and maritime fuels, which are fossil fuel subsidies that are a source of unfair competition with other transport modes;
Amendment 594 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls upon the Commission to propose regulatory measures to mandate static and dynamic data sharing between suppliers and vendors through fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory commercial terms and open up the booking systems of railways operators, in order to improve the consumer experience with regards to planning and purchasing of tickets for multimodal and long- distance rail journeys;
Amendment 598 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Welcomes the strategy’s backing of ongoing efforts to further roll out the European Rail Traffic Management System, the Single European Sky initiative, train automation and air traffic management; warns however of the need to avoid increasing negative external costs by bringing about induced demand and a rebound effect with the measures on aviation; considers that an overarching common objective of such framework policies, beyond partial optimisation, must be to minimise the overall environmental impact;
Amendment 615 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Highlights that all means of digitalisation should be used to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and increase transport safety; believes that it is of vital importance to ensure that every step of digitalisation contributes to a lower overall transport volume, while ensuring that the development, deployment and use of artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies, including the software, algorithms and data used or produced by such technologies, take into consideration their environmental footprint during their lifecycle and across their entire supply chain; believes all such technologies should contribute to the green transition and support the achievement of climate neutrality and circular economy goals; underlines also that any public support for the digitalisation of transport should be directed at measures that will also contribute to achieving the Union’s energy, climate and environmental targets, with particular attention to increasing the energy efficiency of the sector;
Amendment 630 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Recommends the development of Union-wide trustworthy AI standards for all modes of transport, including the automotive industry, and for testing of AI- enabled vehicles and related products and services;
Amendment 632 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Calls on the Commission to make one-stop-shop ticketing solutions for European railways possible within the scope of the upcoming revision of the ITS Directive;
Amendment 634 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23c. Highlights that multimodal ticketing has the potential to incentivise public transport use and can benefit from interoperability and database interconnections; calls therefore for open standards and guidelines to ensure interconnectivity;
Amendment 636 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 d (new)
Paragraph 23 d (new)
23d. Stresses that vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure connectivity should be deployed with a view of ensuring a common level of security and safety, independently of third party services providers; calls for ensuring interoperability between V2X applications and mandatory cybersecurity requirements;
Amendment 637 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 e (new)
Paragraph 23 e (new)
23e. Highlights that the increased digitalisation of the transport sectors corresponds to more cybersecurity risks, with potential severe safety implications; calls therefore for ensuring minimal cybersecurity requirements along the whole industrial ecosystems, including, but not limited to, suppliers based outside of the Union;
Amendment 638 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 f (new)
Paragraph 23 f (new)
23f. Calls on the Commission to foster the development of multimodal digital solutions, including shared sustainable mobility, with public transport at the core of the Union’s transport system;
Amendment 639 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 g (new)
Paragraph 23 g (new)
23g. Notes the risks to road safety, such as driver overreliance, distraction, concentration drop and mode confusion, posed by currently available assisted driving systems aiming to improve primarily the comfort of the driver; urges the Commission to review their technical requirements based on the latest data from crashes and research, in order to address these systems’ risks; points to the possible adverse consequences in terms of safety in case of malfunctioning of sensors used within advanced driver assistance systems and calls to make sure they are properly tested for roadworthiness in periodic technical inspections;
Amendment 649 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Notes that the shift towards sustainable and smart mobility requires the sharing of non-personal data and proper data-integration between all relevant stakeholders, in accordance with Regulation 2016/679;
Amendment 664 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Welcomes the Commission’s willingness to explore the benefits and possibilities of new transport modes, such as Hyperloopbut stresses that the focus should by default be on sustainable and affordable solutions that are already readily available, such as rail;
Amendment 673 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Stresses that local public transport authorities' governance should remain a fundamental aspect in the development of multimodal ticketing solutions, so as to retain their ability to organise a sustainable and inclusive mobility on their territory;
Amendment 675 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Encourages the sharing of disaggregated data from private operators with public authorities in order to better plan transport solutions;
Amendment 676 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 c (new)
Paragraph 26 c (new)
26c. Encourages the Commission to take legislative action in the areas of licensing, distribution agreement and booking systems, and to develop smart and interoperable payment services, which would allow travellers to easily plan their journeys via a single transaction by buying a single integrated ticket for connecting trains or multimodal journeys, with robust associated passenger rights;
Amendment 677 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 d (new)
Paragraph 26 d (new)
26d. Calls on the Commission to prescribe the guaranteed accessibility of certain vehicle-specific data, functions and software information, for instance by periodic technical inspection organizations, thereby allowing them to detect possible digital tampering and manipulations, and ensure cybersecurity of vehicles;
Amendment 682 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Believes that sustainable transport is the backbone of a well-functioning internal market and is of utmost importance for European socioeconomic and territorial cohesion; t the service of the European Green Deal objective and climate targets, and it is of utmost importance for European socioeconomic and territorial cohesion; notes however that market solutions do not solve all of the transport system’s problems and that fossil fuel subsidies and poor working conditions skew fair competition;
Amendment 687 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Supports the Commission's position that fair mobility also means protection for passengers and their rights; believes that regaining consumer confidence is necessary to revive the transport and tourism sector post-Covid- 19; supports therefore the Commission's position on the need for better implementation of EU passenger rights and encourages the Commission to work closely with national consumer protection authorities to ensure that travellers' rights are properly enforced; supports the goal to establish the obligation of informing about the carbon footprint of a journey a passenger right and believes this should be enlarged to cover the whole ecological footprint;
Amendment 711 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Welcomes the willingness of the Commission to consider the creation of a binding multimodal framework for passenger rights; stresses that future legislative framework should be simple, easy to implement for stakeholders and easily enforceable by consumers;
Amendment 718 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27c. Welcomes the Commission's position that the EU must help passengers in the event of airline bankruptcy or of major liquidity crisis such as the COVID- 19 pandemic; calls for the adoption of an adequate financial protection scheme to protect passenger against an insolvency of the transport carrier;
Amendment 722 #
27d. Calls on the Commission to consider the feasibility of introducing limitations or removal of full prepayment obligations for consumers in travellers’ rights legislations; remarks that the current business model of the tourism sector, fully based on pre-payment has proven to be unsustainable in periods of crisis;
Amendment 731 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Believes that the ecological transition of the transport sector is an opportunity for the Union’s industrial leadership in zero-emission products, services, technologies and innovations, such as a circular, sustainable and ethically responsible battery value chain, renewable hydrogen, innovative shared mobility and improved customer services, in particular for people with disabilities, or congestion reduction, as well as in related industrial ecosystems; welcomes the new European partnerships under Horizon Europe related to sustainable mobility; points to the need of open and early involvement of citizen, consumers' organisations and social partners in R&I processes as to ensure that developed technologies and innovations respond to societal needs;
Amendment 741 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls for the strengthening of social dialogue at European level and in the Member States; calls in particular for specific measures to promote and enforce collective bargaining in the highly fragmented transport sector, in order to eliminate any form of discrimination and unequal treatment in the transport sector;
Amendment 758 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage the diversification of the transport workforce, in particular to attract women and young workers; urges the Commission to comprehensively address the gender dimension in the design of transport policy, infrastructure and vehicles, recognising the differing mobility patterns of women;
Amendment 774 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Believes that the Union’s industrial strategy, in particular the European Battery and Hydrogen Alliance, will help to create well-paid and secure jobs throughout the Union; remarks that investing in rail, public transport and active mobility will boost the economy and job growth;
Amendment 776 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Calls on the Commission to improve the protection of workers in the transport sector by strengthening working conditions; in this regard, believes the Commission needs to act urgently to address precarious work, bogus self- employment practices and social dumping; notes in particular the difficult situation for aviation, logistics, delivery services and new mobility service workers; underlines moreover the implications in terms of increased safety risks that the current working conditions represent; urges the Commission to establish a Task Force involving all relevant DGs that should propose measures to tackle these issues as a matter of urgency; expresses concern at ongoing liberalisation trends that represent threats to working conditions;
Amendment 781 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 b (new)
Paragraph 31 b (new)
Amendment 783 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 c (new)
Paragraph 31 c (new)
31c. Calls on the Commission to ensure urgent just transition measures for both that environmental and digital transitions of the transport sector, which should consist of a comprehensive package of tools including, but not limited to, inclusive social dialogue, retraining, upskilling and the promotion of decent work and stronger minimum labour standards to ensure the upward social and economic mobility of workers;
Amendment 786 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 d (new)
Paragraph 31 d (new)
31d. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the rights of those with reduced mobility and those with disabilities are catered for in all transport policies and financing decisions;
Amendment 787 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 e (new)
Paragraph 31 e (new)
31e. Calls on the Commission to publish a strategy on how to address transport poverty in the EU in order to ensure that all throughout the Union have access to sustainable, affordable, safe and accessible mobility;
Amendment 788 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 f (new)
Paragraph 31 f (new)
31f. Underlines that the main obstacles to increasing the participation of women in the transport sector are a dominant culture of masculinity and gender stereotypes, discrimination and unequal treatment at work, lack of a work-life balance and ‘the care trap’, deficiencies in provision for women’s health and safety at work (including access to decent sanitary facilities and high levels of violence and harassment against women at the workplace); calls for concrete actions to eliminate these barriers for women in order to attract and retain women in the transport sector;
Amendment 789 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 g (new)
Paragraph 31 g (new)
31g. Calls on the Commission to mainstream gender in all upcoming legislation, programmes and funding initiatives related to the transport sector, as well as substantially strengthen gender mainstreaming in the Better Regulation process with specific impact assessments regarding gender-based discrimination and inequality; calls on the European Commission to close the ‘gender data gap’ and develop gender-disaggregated data to better design legislation, projects and programmes;
Amendment 790 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 h (new)
Paragraph 31 h (new)
31h. Calls on the Commission to present an urgent legislative proposal making due diligence compulsory for companies in order to ensure socially and environmentally sustainable European and international supply chains; underlines that this must include all workers in these supply chains, including those not directly employed by the parent company; stresses that due to the transient and highly mobile nature of their work, transport workers must be given priority and adequate protections to ensure safe and socially sustainable employment;
Amendment 791 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 i (new)
Paragraph 31 i (new)
31i. Requests that the Commission include the problem of driver fatigue as a chronic disease in the road safety strategy; expresses deep concern over driver fatigue in commercial freight and passenger transport, particularly as a cause of road accidents; calls on the Member States in cooperation with the Commission to fully enforce Regulation (EU)2020/1054, in particular the rules on the return of the driver and the ban on taking the regular weekly rest in the cabin which have been in force since 20 August 2020;
Amendment 797 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Supports the Commission’s efforts to either establish a European Road Safety Agency or task an existing agency with supporting sustainable, safe and smart road transport; calls for a reduction in serious road deaths and injuries of 60% by 2030;
Amendment 803 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Calls on the European Commission in its expected recommendation on speed, to make 30km/h the default speed on urban roads, as well as encouraging lower speeds of 15 km/h for residential areas predominantly for pedestrians and cyclists and around schools, maximum 70 km/h on undivided rural roads and a dynamic top speed of maximum 120 km/h or less on motorways and TEN-T, with significantly lower speeds when climatic conditions or other atmospheric reasons affect visibility;
Amendment 811 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 b (new)
Paragraph 32 b (new)
32b. Calls for adequate labelling and adequate information at the point of sale, not only regarding CO2 emissions standards, but also concerning safety performance based on the different parameters of the Euro NCAP crashworthiness tests; welcomes the fact that the testing procedures have incorporated also the impact on external objects, which gives an assessment of the level of danger towards third vehicles and above all vulnerable road users; regrets however that in general the tests and their conclusions are still essentially based on dummies simulating the average male body, with all the additional safety threats this puts onto women in case of real-life collision, and urges for an immediate correction of this practice;
Amendment 816 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 c (new)
Paragraph 32 c (new)
32c. Supports all efforts to make transport safer for both passengers and workers, including for example ongoing work at the European Committee on Standardisation to reduce cabin air contamination from engine oil and hydraulic fumes on commercial flights, which should become a standard;
Amendment 818 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 d (new)
Paragraph 32 d (new)
32d. Calls on the Commission to present a new legislative proposal limiting the maximum top speed of all new vehicles as an effective way of reducing road casualties, as well as CO2 emissions and air pollutants;
Amendment 819 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Encourages the Commission to adopt harmonised health and safety standards for the European tourism sector as soon as possible and to work towards the creation of a European Tourism Union; stresses that tourism must reduce its own significant social and environmental costs, including its contribution to global CO2 emissions which equals 8%; stresses that the negative impact of overtourism on local populations requires urgent attention and that the Commission should promote sustainable tourism models such as eco-tourism; calls on the Commission to ensure coherence between transport policy and tourism policy so that both contribute to the Union’s social and environmental goals;