5 Amendments of Dominique RIQUET related to 2010/2139(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that the difficulties observed in utilising the appropriations in part reflect the problem of dovetailing certain Lisbon Strategy criteria, in particular with regard to innovation, with the efforts to respond to them in the regions, especially those which are lagging behind, at a time of economic and financial crisis;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. RecallDeplores the imbalance of the planned transport investments between the different modes (road infrastructure 41 billion versus rail: €23.6 billion and inland waterways €0.6 billion), that is neither helpful to enhance modal swift objectives to reduce CO2 emissions nor to ensure fair and efficient co-modalitywhich is damaging to the creation of sustainable intermodal European transport; hopes therefore that European funds allocated to rail transport projects will be assigned priority and will be increased where road infrastructure is already sufficiently developed;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Is concerned by the lack of detailed information on the ongoing implementation of transport investments; questions if and by the delays which have occurred in the majority of the TEN-T projects currently under way; calls in this context for a more accurate evaluation of the implementation would not highlight serious delays of the programmed investments on TEN Tof these projects and insists, especially against the background of the economic crisis, on more certainty in respect of the timetable;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that cohesion and structural funding allocated to transport is distributed between transport modes and networks in a way which takes insufficient account of the objectives of the European Union;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls therefore for an increase in the overall funds available for TEN-T through earmarking cohesion funding for transport projects and the dedication of an amount within this for the core TEN T networkEuropean transport policy to be taken into account better, particularly policy on the TEN-Ts, in allocating cohesion policy funding, as thuis would lead to a more efficient and consistent use of cothesione fundings with the EU climate change and sustainable development targets and a more effective realisation of the TEN-T network; calls on the Commission, in cohesion policy, to consider the possibility of adopting distribution and conditionality criteria which take better account of the European interest of transport networks;