Activities of Saïd EL KHADRAOUI related to 2008/2240(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
The charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures - Greening of transport and internalisation of external costs (debate)
The charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures - Greening of transport and internalisation of external costs (continuation of debate)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, as far as greening transport is concerned, the Commission has put forward a number of suggestions aimed at combating climate change, but and, when it comes to taking the necessary action, it has produced no more than a communication on the internalisation of external costs, a communication on rail noise abatement, and one specific legislative proposal revising the tolls applicable to heavy goods vehicles,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Article 11, third paragraph, of the Eurovignette Directive stipulated back in 2006 that: ‘No later than 10 June 2008, the Commission shall present, after examining all options including environment, noise, congestion and health- related costs, a generally applicable, transparent and comprehensible model for the assessment of all external costs to serve as the basis for future calculations of infrastructure charges. This model shall be accompanied by an impact analysis of the internalisation of external costs for all modes of transport and a strategy for a stepwise implementation of the model for all modes of transport’,. The report and the model shall be accompanied, if appropriate, by proposals to the European Parliament and the Council for further revision of this Directive'.
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Commission has convincingly described the public health nuisance caused by rail noise, but and, by way of a cornerstone to its rail noise abatement initiative, is merely setting out a requirement for freight wagons to be retrofitted with low- noise brakes,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission communication on greening transport as a first tentative partial step towards a more comprehensive approachn important first step towards a coherent policy making for environment-friendlier transport in its many and varied modes;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
5. RegretObserves that the Commission has failed to produce a plan to galready taken the following first initiatives which should ultimately lead to a comprehen transport, that is to say, every transport sector, and has instead,sive strategy for the internalisation of external costs in all modes of transport:
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point a
Paragraph 5 – point a
(a) adopting a piecemeal approach, submitted guidelinesdrawn up a Handbook for estimating the external costs of transport and for their internalisation in individual sectors,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b
Paragraph 5 – point b
(b) again opting for a partial solution, confined its specific proposals to higher road tolls forhas submitted a proposal to amend Directive 1999/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 1999 on the charging of heavy goods vehicles, and even for the use would apply only in Member States that so wished, andof certain infrastructures, which is intended to permit Member States to charge for the external costs arising from heavy goods vehicles, in line with Article 11 of the said Directive,
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. RegretNotes that in its communication on the strategy for the internalisation of external costs, the Commission has failed to fulfilled the obligation imposed on it by Parliament and the Council, under the third paragraph of Article 11 of the Eurovignette Directive, since it has not – on its own admission – devised and put forward a generally applicable, transparent, and comprehensible model for the assessment of external costs as a whole, given that it has not analysed the impact on every mode of transport and, at the practical level, has not produced anythe beginnings of a strategy for the stepwise implementation of the model for all modes;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Notes with dismay that the Commission communication did not makmakes copious references to the Hany substantive statementsdbook published in January 2008 regarding the calculation of external costs for the different modes of transport, but merely referred to a ‘Handbook on estimation of external costs in the transport sector’, which, given the disparate nature of its contributions, is more likely to cause confusion than to shed light on unanswered questions, which brings together the most recent scientific knowledge concerning the calculation of external costs in the transport sector;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Is disappoinNoteds that the Commission, in its communication, has failed to put forward any scientifically coherent justifications for the charging of individual external costs to various modes of transport, confining itself instead toand has adopted what it terms a ‘pragmatic approach based on the average cost’
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is disappointed in addition that in its communication the Commission, narrowing down this ‘pragmatic approach’ still further, has reduced it toNotes that in its communication and in the proposal for a directive amending Directive 1999/62/EC (Eurovignette) the Commission explicitly takes account of the ‘polluter/user pays’ principle and that, as regards the contributions – broken down by Member State – already made by individual modes of transport in the formlaid down in Article 175(5) of the Treaty; calls on the Commission, however, in further steps with regard to the internalisation of genexternal taxation, vehicle and oil taxes, and road tolls to balance costs, to take account real infrastructure building and maof all forms of internance costs and, moreover, external costs, it has not even listed them, let alone set them off against the costs incurredlisation of external costs which already exist, such as oil taxes and road tolls;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Deplores the factNotes that the Commission has not so much as attempted in its communication to gauge, assess, and describe, in its communication and in the accompanying impact assessment SEC(2008)2208, already made a start on assessing the impact that its proposed method for internalising external costs might have on competition among the various modes of transport;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Agrees with the Commission that, in view of the newly adopted arrangements to incorporate aviation into the emissions trading scheme and of the rules on airport charges, there is no need at present for proposals to internalise external costs where civil aviation and airports are concerned; cCalls on the Commission, however, to take steps without delay firstly to produce specific proposals for rail, sea, and inland waterwayall modes of transport and secondly to perform the task deriving from Article 11, third paragraph, of the 2006 Eurovignette Directive by submitting a comprehensive plan for calculating and charging external costs and assessing their impact on the basis of a comprehensible model;