Resolution on the results of the extraordinary European Council in Berlin on 24/25 March 1999
Date: 1999-04-14
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: European Commissioner, European Council, enlargement of the Union, multiannual financial framework

C 219/190

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

30.7.1999

Wednesday 14 April 1999

22. Non-resident carriers (Cabotage) (procedure without debate)

A4-0113/99

Resolution  on  the  report  from  the  Commission  on  the  implementation  of  Regulation  (EEC)
No 3118/93 laying down the conditions under which non-resident carriers may operate national road
haulage services within a Member State (Cabotage) (COM(98)0047 − C4-0687/98)

The European Parliament,

−  having regard to the Commission report (COM(98)0047 − C4-0687/98),

−  having regard to the report from the Commission on the implementation in 1991-1992 of Regulation
(EEC)  No  3820/85  on  the  harmonization  of  certain  social  legislation  relating  to  road  transport
(17th  report  by  the  Commission  on  the  implementation  of  the  social  legislation  relating  to  road
transport), COM(95)0713 − C4-0065/96),

−  having  regard  to  the  EC  Treaty  provisions  on  Transport  (Title  IV)  and  on  competition  and

harmonization of legislation (Title V),

−  having regard to the report of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (A4-0113/99),

A.  whereas cabotage is a way in which the internal market in the road haulage sector can be completed,

B.  whereas in this market cabotage has been authorized only gradually since 1990, in order to allow the

market to adapt itself to the new situation,

1. Welcomes the facts and figures in the Commission report;

Encourages the Commission to draw up a report on cabotage every two years and insists that the

2.
member states provide the Commission and Eurostat, in time, with the necessary statistical data;

Asks the governments of the EEA-countries to participate fully in this exercise since the cabotage

3.
regime applies also to them;

4. Welcomes  the  cabotage  regime  as  a  realization  of  a  free  market  within  the  EU  and  the  EEA  but
insists that all the players in the market should be treated on an equal footing which means that checks and
fines have to be harmonised as far as possible and that there should be no discrimination on the basis of
nationality;

Instructs  its  President  to  forward  this  resolution  to  the  Commission,  the  Council  and  the

5.
governments of the Member States and the EEA-countries.

23. Results of the extraordinary European Council in Berlin on 24/25 March 1999

B4-0356, 0357, 0364 and 0367/99

Resolution on the results of the extraordinary European Council in Berlin on 24/25 March 1999

The European Parliament,

−  having  regard  to  the  European  Council  report  and  Commission  statement  on  the  outcome  of  the
European Council meeting in Berlin on 24/25 March 1999 and to the Presidency conclusions,

−  having regard to its resolutions of 14 January 1999 on improving the financial management of the
Commission (1) and 23 March 1999 on the resignation of the Commission and the appointment of a
new Commission (2),

(1) Minutes of that sitting, Part II, Item 1.
(2) Minutes of that sitting, Part II, Item 2.