CELEX: 51996PC0381
Language: en
Date: 1996-07-17
Title: Amended proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) amending Regulation (EEC) 1107/70 of the Council on the granting of aid for transport by rail, road and inland waterway

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                         Brussels, 17.07.1996
                                         COM(96) 381 final
                                         95/0204 (SYN)
                       Amended proposal for a
                   COUNCIL REGULATION ŒO
amending Regulation (EEC) 1107/70 of the Council on the granting
      of aid for transport by rail, road and inland waterway
     (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 189 a (2)
                         of the EC-Treaty)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
At its plenary session of 29 February 1996, the European Parliament has given its
opinion on the proposal 1 for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Regulation (EEC)
1107/70 of the Council on the granting of aid for transport by rail, road and inland
waterway, providing for a number of amendments.
The Commission has accepted amendments 1 and 2 concerning a new recital 1,
as they correspond to the intermodal policy of the Community. This policy aims at
creating the conditions for sustainable mobility through the imputation of the actual
costs caused by each mode of transport. As long as road modes do not fully pay
for the social and environmental costs caused by them, aid to combined transport,
railways and waterways to bridge the competitive gap is justified.
The Commission therefore amends its proposal as follows:
            Original proposal                   Amended proposal
                                    Recital 1a (new)
                                                Whereas the growing requirement for
                                                mobility is placing ever increasing
                                                demands and pressures on people and
                                                the environment; whereas to take
                                                 account of the present highly uneven
                                                spread of costs and pressures
                                                 between the different modes of
                                                transport, the possibility must be
                                                 created of improving or increasing aid
                                                 to environment-friendly forms of
                                                 transport such as combined transport,
                                                 railways and waterways;
                                    Recital 1b (new)
                                                 Whereas the current overall transport
                                                 policy has not vet succeeded in
                                                 creating the conditions for healthy
                                                 competition between the various
                                                  modes of transport, and whereas no
                                                 financial equilibrium has vet been
                                                  achieved    within    the    railway
                                                  companies;
        O.J. No. C 253, 29 September 1995, p. 22.
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