Activities of Luís QUEIRÓ related to 2005/0283(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Promotion of clean road transport vehicles (debate)
Amendments (2)
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Member States may apply more stringent award criteria to the procurement of clean and energy-efficient vehicles, and may elect to purchase reconditioned vehicles or have existing vehicles modernised by, for example, fitting them with particulate traps and start-stop mechanisms or adapting engines to run on cleaner fuels, in order to improve environmental performance.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 a (new)
Article 5 a (new)
Article 5a 1. Member States, together with the various entities providing public transport services, shall publicise this Directive in the appropriate form, along with the national laws transposing it, and shall provide every assistance, and all information, concerning the Community funding schemes applicable to the tendering procedures covered by this Directive. 2. The Commission shall encourage the dissemination of best practice to enable policies to be drawn up in the area of clean and energy-efficient public transport services, if necessary by setting up a European website, in order to move gradually towards the application of standardised Community-wide criteria to the procurement of vehicles by the entities covered by this Directive.