8 Amendments of Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT related to 2011/2196(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the importance of regional airports in the context of air transport and their essential role in ensuring territorial, economic and social cohesion , both within the Member States and in the Union by connecting regions; points out that existing public service obligations should be maintained in orderor obligations that may be agreed in the future should be justified by the need to guarantee the accessibility of regions, such asparticularly peripheral and island regions, that facegiven that suitable air transports links would enable them to cope with their inherent geographical handicaps; notes the importance of airports, especially of regional airports, which are sometimes the only effective link between a region and the rest of Europe; evidently, in the current context of the economic crisis and the need to implement fiscal consolidation policies, the right balance should be struck between each airport’s need to be competitive and balance its books and the social and regional needs that must be met;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission, Member States and regional authorities to take greater account of the fact that good air transport connections are oftin any event decisive for the development of tourism and fundamental to the rapid transportation of passengers and goods; since tourism is demonstrating its resilience to the economic crisis, special attention must be paid to any economic policy aspect or decision likely to support or advance it, such as air transport and airport infrastructure projects;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises the economic importance of regional airports for job creation, particularly in less-developed or, disadvantaged or island regions; stresses, in that connection, the need to exploit the potential for green jobs more effectivelyas a corollary, the opportunity we have to exploit the potential offered by the new vision of airports as a more effective way of creating green jobs;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States and regional and local authorities to take account, in addition to economic and financial considerations, of environmental and meteorological factors when deciding where to locate airports;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers it particularly important to employ intermodal transport solutions where possible; takes the view that railerefore that, given the current state of technological progress in the field, rail or road transport links between airports should be developed, as they offer an ideal way of easing the capacity problems of the airports concerned;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Takes the view that the building and expansion of regional airports and related infrastructure should be properly supported by national and regional authorities and receive appropriate financing under the TEN-T Networks, the Cohesion Fund and the ERDF, in the new programming framework currently being assessed;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States and regional and local authorities to ensure that, in accordance with a specific territorial assessment, airports are included in regional spatial development plans given the impor taken into accountnce they deserve in regional spatial development strategieplans.
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Urges the Commission, therefore, to pave the way for the establishment of a system of airport charges that goes beyond the simple desire to raise funds and has the requisite effect to ensure the competitiveness of the European air transport system as a whole, paying particular attention to peripheral and island regions;