4 Amendments of Roberts ZĪLE related to 2010/2211(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that transport underpins Europe's economic and social activity, that the transport sector represents 4.6% of the European Union's GDP, while employing 9.2 million individuals, and that, as well as allowing communication between individuals and communities and providing the network upon which the movement of goods in the single market ultimately depends, the sector is significant in terms of its potential contribution to ensuring soceconomic, social and territorial cohesion, boosting employment and trade and enhancing the tourism sector, together with the contribution an efficient transport system can make to reduced carbon emissions, pollution and congestion;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Insists that, viewed particularly from a financial efficiency standpoint, the need to ensure real added value from EU budgetary expenditure on transport policy items is paramount; notes that, while duplication or displacement of investment and expenditure better undertaken at national and regional level must be avoided, it is essential not to miss the opportunities for facilitating sustainable growth which the added value of EU transport expenditure at national, regional and cross- border level alone can provide;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Draws particular attention to the added value of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), whose priority projects are all transnational and whose added value is particularly evident in context of development of efficient, multimodal and comprehensive EU transport network and addressing the issue of lack of accessibility and low interoperability between various parts of the EU, in cross- border sections of projects and in the leverage effect which EU investment has in encouraging private and public funding of strategic projects;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls therefore for an increase in the overall funds available for TEN-T through earmarking cohesion funding for transport projects (currently 23.7% of cohesion resources) and the dedication of an amount, as well as improved coordination between the EU and Member States and between the revised TEN-T Guidelines and the EU Cohesion strategic guidelines, in order to ensure consistency in funding priorities between the EU and national levels in full conformity within this for the core TEN-T network, thus increasing EU added value, and for TEN-T funding to be made conditional upon the conce Guidelines and thus to use better the available sources of financing and increase its added value in the implementration of national funding on the TEN-T core networkthe EU objectives;