6 Amendments of Gisela KALLENBACH related to 2008/2218(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. maintains that TEN-T projects have to be oriented towards the cohesion policy goal of balanced development and help to even out territorial disparities; is of the opinion that this cannot succeed unless the requirements entailed in the European guiding principle of polycentric development are taken into account and spatial concentration, whether of resources or of projects, is avoided;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. points out that the simplification of procedures and introduction of financial guarantees to reduce entrepreneurial risk, especially for SMEs, are essential in order to attract private capital and set up sound public-private partnerships, which are essential to project implementation; maintains, as regards public private partnerships, that clear and transparent rules of conduct are needed to govern the activities of public institutions and enterprises;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. maintains that simplification of procedures – for instance for the purposes of the European Economic Recovery Plan – must not lead to a situation in which the enforcement of Community environmental and climate protection legislation would be neglected or watered down;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to refrain from supporting any inland waterway projects that would destroy the natural courses of rivers and would not be demonstrably useful or sustainable;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. is of the opinion that a real bottom-up approach fully involving regional and local authorities, stakeholders of civil society and local populations in the decision- making process is a prerequisite to ensuring fast implementation of TEN-T projects and their durability in the long term; calls for the above conditions to apply equally to the entire range of financing arrangements and sources of funding used for TEN-T;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. considers that information on the use of TEN-T funding and on the benefits deriving from it is often not visible enough to citizens; therefore calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop actions increasing transparency as regards the allocation of these funds and on the results achieved, and to ensure that Community and national environmental and climate protection legislation is observed fully and in a comprehensible way.