13 Amendments of Dominique VLASTO related to 2010/2137(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop fairer competition in the transport domain while respecting other European Union policy objectives, such as properly functioning transport and mobility services, policy objectives in the areas of public services, safety and environmental protection, and EU 2020 targets on CO2 emissions and oil dependency;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines that the financial and economic crisis has led to a very large number of business bankruptcies and failures, not least among transport SMEs and VSEs, that crisis response plans have primarily been national plans and that coordination at European level has been belated and ineffective; regrets that there was no European mechanism, on the lines of a monthly barometer for transport companies, to better anticipate and forestall the effects of the economic crisis; notes that measures to help transport companies cope with cash flow problems and temporary additional costs could have been brought forward at European level in order to avoid the overlapping of national plans, and without state aid arrangements as a whole or the need for fair competition being compromised;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Reiterates its support for the Commission guidelines on state aid for environmental protection in the field of transport, which helps bolster the sustainability of the European transport sector; encourages the Commission to enhance the incentive nature of the state aids authorised in the field of transport;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the need to create and monitor fair competition within and between the transport modes in pricing structures and respecting social, safety and environmental rules, for example between road, waterway and rail freight transport or between short distance flights and long distance rail transport for passengerorder to generate transparent and clear pricing structures and pricing policies;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Asks the Commission to monitor the respect of social, safety and environmental rules, for example between road, waterway, airway and rail freight transport or between short distance flights and long distance rail transport for passengers;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites the Commission to give an overview on taxation, levies, infrastructure financing and, charging and management, and on VAT systems for different transport modes and effects on intermodal competition, and to include in this overview the effect of obligatory minimum rail infrastructure and voluntary maximum charging of road infrastructure;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission, while reviewing legislation on passenger rights and reimbursement for delays, to guarantee fair and equal compensation schemes for delays across all transport modes (25% compensation for a delay of more than 1 hour, 50% for a delay of more than 2 hours, according to the existing legislation in the field of railways) and the setting-up of independent arbitration bodies between operators and clients;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Invites the Commission to deliver an overview of cases where low cost air carriers were/are unfairly advantaged vis-à-vis other carriers, through special conditions granted to them while using certain airports, beyond the three-year period prescribed for start-up aid for airline companies;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to improve the way in which the arrangement involving state aid in certain cases, based on the ‘first time, last time’ principle, can be applied in the air transport sector;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to prevent Member States and their rail companies from preventing or obstructing the entrance of other companies into their rail services markets, especially while themselves participating in the opening of other markets (reciprocity);
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Draws the Commission’s attention to the indirect obstacles to competition arising from the disparity, in the transport sector, in the rules on safety, interoperability and type-approval;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to be vigilant to ensure, through the decisions taken at both EU and national level, cohesive and harmonised implementation in the railway sector of the rules of competition law; emphasises in particular the need for cohesion between the railway supervisory authorities (regulators) and the national and European competition authorities;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the need to limit as appropriate the market share of maritime consortia of container lines and to share operational advantages, corresponding to the general EU rules on fair competition and the revised Block Exemption Regulation on maritime consortia that entered into force in April 2010ensure, subject to the conditions laid down in Regulation (EC) No 906/2009 concerning the application of Article 101(3) of the Treaty of Lisbon, operational cooperation with a view to the joint provision of liner shipping services by shipping companies, in order to ensure the efficiency and quality of shipping services.