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- enhancing the attractiveness of modes of transport other than by road.
- enhancing the attractiveness of modes of transport other than by road.
Freight Logistics Action Plan
Freight Logistics Action Plan
This communication investigates the key role of logistics in ensuring more sustainable and competitive transport systems in Europe.
This communication investigates the key role of logistics in ensuring more sustainable and competitive transport systems in Europe.
The logistics industry in Europe has a share close to 14% of GDP, and shows average growth rates above those for the economy as a whole.
The logistics industry in Europe has a share close to 14% of GDP, and shows average growth rates above those for the economy as a whole.
This is chiefly due to liberalisation, European integration and low transport costs, which do not reflect true costs.
This is chiefly due to liberalisation, European integration and low transport costs, which do not reflect true costs.
On the other hand, it has led to congestion in ports, transport centres and hubs and on rail routes.
On the other hand, it has led to congestion in ports, transport centres and hubs and on rail routes.
The Commission now proposes to develop a coherent policy in six areas:
The Commission now proposes to develop a coherent policy in six areas:
1. e-Freight and ITS : The purpose of e-Freight is to develop a paper-free information flow making it possible to track and trace freight along its journey across transport modes, thus rendering freight locatable regardless of the mode it is transported on, while at the same time simplifying management.
1. e- Freight and ITS : The purpose of e-Freight is to develop a paper-free information flow making it possible to track and trace freight along its journey across transport modes, thus rendering freight locatable regardless of the mode it is transported on, while at the same time simplifying management.
All the actions proposed are for 2009.
All the actions proposed are for 2009.
The development of satellite positioning systems such as Galileo would make this ‘Internet for Cargo” (information available online) feasible in future.
The development of satellite positioning systems such as Galileo would make this ‘Internet for Cargo” (information available online) feasible in future.
Sustainable quality and efficiency: The Commission is hoping to find practicable legal solutions (2008) or create benchmarking for intermodal terminals in 2010.
Sustainable quality and efficiency: The Commission is hoping to find practicable legal solutions (2008) or create benchmarking for intermodal terminals in 2010.
A set of core indicators will be worked out in consultation with the stakeholders by the end of 2009 while at the same time reviewing the availability of statistical data on freight transport logistics.
A set of core indicators will be worked out in consultation with the stakeholders by the end of 2009 while at the same time reviewing the availability of statistical data on freight transport logistics.
In the area of personnel and training, the Commission will work with the European social partners to draw up a list of minimum logistics qualifications.
In the area of personnel and training, the Commission will work with the European social partners to draw up a list of minimum logistics qualifications.
Simplification of transport chains: A number of initiatives are being carried out in this area.
Simplification of transport chains : A number of initiatives are being carried out in this area.
Compliance with administrative requirements will be simplified by the creation of a ‘single window’ and a ‘one-stop administrative shop’ by 2012.
Compliance with administrative requirements will be simplified by the creation of a ‘single window’ and a ‘one-stop administrative shop’ by 2012.
The Commission will also submit a legislative proposal for the simplification and promotion of short-sea shipping in 2008.
The Commission will also submit a legislative proposal for the simplification and promotion of short-sea shipping in 2008.
In 2009 the possibility of a single transport document, irrespective of the mode of transport, will be studied.
In 2009 the possibility of a single transport document, irrespective of the mode of transport, will be studied.
The Commission may submit a proposal in 2009 for a standard liability clause, and will prepare European standards for security of modes of transport in 2008.
The Commission may submit a proposal in 2009 for a standard liability clause, and will prepare European standards for security of modes of transport in 2008.
Vehicle dimensions and loading standards: The Commission will analyse the standards for vehicle weights and dimensions and may propose in this connection the updating of Directive 96/53/EC in 2008.
Vehicle dimensions and loading standards : The Commission will analyse the standards for vehicle weights and dimensions and may propose in this connection the updating of Directive 96/53/EC in 2008.
It will also work on standardising a European Intermodal Loading Unit (2007).
It will also work on standardising a European Intermodal Loading Unit (2007).
‘Green’ transport corridors for freight: Under this heading the Commission is pursuing a number of objectives.
‘Green’ transport corridors for freight: Under this heading the Commission is pursuing a number of objectives.
First of all it wants to concentrate freight transport into corridors where co-modality and innovative technologies are in use.
First of all it wants to concentrate freight transport into corridors where co-modality and innovative technologies are in use.
In 2008 the Commission will designate ‘green’ corridors and organise cooperation between the authorities and transport operators.
In 2008 the Commission will designate ‘green’ corridors and organise cooperation between the authorities and transport operators.
The first proposals on rail freight networks are expected in 2008, and on corridors by 2012.
The first proposals on rail freight networks are expected in 2008, and on corridors by 2012.
Urban freight transport logistics: Here the Commission stresses the urban dimension of freight transport.
Urban freight transport logistics: Here the Commission stresses the urban dimension of freight transport.
Recommendations are currently in preparation for commonly agreed benchmarks or performance indicators to measure efficiency and sustainability.
Recommendations are currently in preparation for commonly agreed benchmarks or performance indicators to measure efficiency and sustainability.
Towards a rail network giving priority to freight
Towards a rail network giving priority to freight
As the Commission sees it, the difficulties encountered by rail freight are partly explained by its inability to increase its market share.
As the Commission sees it, the difficulties encountered by rail freight are partly explained by its inability to increase its market share.
These difficulties mainly concern its reliability, the capacities available, information management, average speed and flexibility.
These difficulties mainly concern its reliability, the capacities available, information management, average speed and flexibility.
Unfortunately rail policy over the last 15 years has not succeeded in achieving the desired objective of a modal shift.
Unfortunately rail policy over the last 15 years has not succeeded in achieving the desired objective of a modal shift.
While costs and prices in rail freight transport have continually fallen and competitiveness has improved, full interoperability is still far from being achieved.
While costs and prices in rail freight transport have continually fallen and competitiveness has improved, full interoperability is still far from being achieved.
The objective of the communication is ‘ to create a strong European rail network, part of the TEN-T on which freight transport will be more reliable and efficient ’.
The objective of the communication is ‘ to create a strong European rail network, part of the TEN-T on which freight transport will be more reliable and efficient ’.
This network could be built on the basis of the existing networks.
This network could be built on the basis of the existing networks.
Six new measures are proposed:
Six new measures are proposed:
- Creation of a freight-oriented corridor : The Commission will propose a legal definition.
- Creation of a freight-oriented corridor : The Commission will propose a legal definition.
Each Member State will have to be participating in at least one corridor structure by 2012;
Each Member State will have to be participating in at least one corridor structure by 2012;
- Measuring service quality along a corridor : Following a report on steps taken by rail freight operators to improve their quality of service, the Commission will propose legislative measures on the publication of quality indicators;
- Measur ing service quality along a corridor : Following a report on steps taken by rail freight operators to improve their quality of service, the Commission will propose legislative measures on the publication of quality indicators;
- Infrastructure capacity of a corridor: With a view to avoiding future bottlenecks, the Commission will harmonise infrastructure capacity (train length, gauge, etc.);
- Infrastructure capacity of a corridor: With a view to avoiding future bottlenecks, the Commission will harmonise infrastructure capacity (train length, gauge, etc.);
- Allocation of train paths for international freight: The Commission will propose additional legislation on the international allocation of train paths and encourage the development of cooperation between regulatory authorities;
- Allocation of train paths for international freight: The Commission will propose additional legislation on the international allocation of train paths and encourage the development of cooperation between regulatory authorities;
- Priority rules applying in the case of traffic disturbance :The Commission will tighten up legislation relating to the priority of international freight in the event of disturbance of the network.
- Priority rules applying in the case of traffic disturbance :The Commission will tighten up legislation relating to the priority of international freight in the event of disturbance of the network.
Infrastructure managers are to use harmonised priority rules;
Infrastructure managers are to use harmonised priority rules;
- Ancillary rail services: The Commission will encourage the corridor administrations and infrastructure managers to set up an efficient network of terminals and marshalling yards.
- Ancillary rail services: The Commission will encourage the corridor administrations and infrastructure managers to set up an efficient network of terminals and marshalling yards.
Legislation is also needed to improve the transparency and ease of access to ancillary rail services.
Legislation is also needed to improve the transparency and ease of access to ancillary rail services.
Multi-annual contracts for rail infrastructure quality
Multi-annual contracts for rail infrastructure quality
Six years after the adoption of the rail infrastructure package, there is still concern about the sustainable financing of existing rail infrastructure, the quality of infrastructure service and how to get infrastructure managers to perform better.
Six years after the adoption of the rail infrastructure package, there is still concern about the sustainable financing of existing rail infrastructure, the quality of infrastructure service and how to get infrastructure managers to perform better.
Stakeholder consultations conducted between May 2006 and September 2007 confirmed these concerns.
Stakeholder consultations conducted between May 2006 and September 2007 confirmed these concerns.
A shortage of funding is consequently causing delays in the necessary maintenance of networks.
A shortage of funding is consequently causing delays in the necessary maintenance of networks.
The Commission reports on experience with multi-annual contracts for rail infrastructure quality and the advantages of this means of financing, presented as a solution to the shortcomings in the financing under Directive 2001/14/EC.
The Commission reports on experience with multi-annual contracts for rail infrastructure quality and the advantages of this means of financing, presented as a solution to the shortcomings in the financing under Directive 2001/14/EC.
Multi-annual contracts offer a longer-term perspective for the maintenance of rail networks.
Multi-annual contracts offer a longer-term perspective for the maintenance of rail networks.
Since such contracts are as yet used to very differing extents by only half of the Member States, there is a need for harmonisation of their use.
Since such contracts are as yet used to very differing extents by only half of the Member States, there is a need for harmonisation of their use.
Rapporteur’s main comments
Rapporteur’s main comments
In view of the limited powers and resources of the European Union, your rapporteur proposes concentrating more closely on pragmatic priorities:
In view of the limited powers and resources of the European Union, your rapporteur proposes concentrating more closely on pragmatic priorities:
- The Commission should designate ten cross-border corridors and ten bottlenecks, and should propose solutions before the end of 2008.
- The Commission should designate ten cross-border corridors and ten bottlenecks, and should propose solutions before the end of 2008.
- The ‘green’ corridors should be defined more clearly in terms of sustainability, taking account of existing European environmental criteria on noise, climate change, air pollution and energy use/renewable energy sources;
- The ‘green’ corridors should be defined more clearly in terms of sustainability, taking account of existing European environmental criteria on noise, climate change, air pollution and energy use/renewable energy sources;
- Infrastructure management and administrative procedures should be internationally harmonised and simplified;
- Infrastructure management and administrative procedures should be internationally harmonised and simplified;
- All EU co-financing of transport infrastructure should be aligned with declared objectives for improving the environmental performance of transport systems.
- All EU co-financing of transport infrastructure should be aligned with declared objectives for improving the environmental performance of transport systems.
Although the internalisation of external costs and the proposals for the amendment of the Eurovignette by 10 June 2008 are very important for an environmentally and socially successful transport policy, your rapporteur has refrained from making further amendments here, since Parliament voted on this topic not long ago, e.g. on the report on the sustainable European transport policy, taking into account European energy and environment policies.
Although the internalisation of external costs and the proposals for the amendment of the Eurovignette by 10 June 2008 are very important for an environmentally and socially successful transport policy, your rapporteur has refrained from making further amendments here, since Parliament voted on this topic not long ago, e.g. on the report on the sustainable European transport policy, taking into account European energy and environment policies.
Gabriele Albertini, Inés Ayala Sender, Etelka Barsi-Pataky, Paolo Costa, Michael Cramer, Luis de Grandes Pascual, Christine De Veyrac, Saïd El Khadraoui, Robert Evans, Emanuel Jardim Fernandes, Francesco Ferrari, Brigitte Fouré, Mathieu Grosch, Georg Jarzembowski, Stanisław Jałowiecki, Timothy Kirkhope, Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, Sepp Kusstatscher, Jörg Leichtfried, Bogusław Liberadzki, Eva Lichtenberger, Seán Ó Neachtain, Paweł Bartłomiej Piskorski, Reinhard Rack, Gilles Savary, Brian Simpson, Renate Sommer, Ulrich Stockmann, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Yannick Vaugrenard, Roberts Zīle
Gabriele Albertini, Inés Ayala Sender, Etelka Barsi-Pataky, Paolo Costa, Michael Cramer, Luis de Grandes Pascual, Christine De Veyrac, Saïd El Khadraoui, Robert Evans, Emanuel Jardim Fernandes, Francesco Ferrari, Brigitte Fouré, Mathieu Grosch, Georg Jarzembowski, Stanisław Jałowiecki, Timothy Kirkhope, Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, Sepp Kusstatscher, Jörg Leichtfried, Bogusław Liberadzki, Eva Lichtenberger, Seán Ó Neachtain, Paweł Bartłomiej Piskorski, Reinhard Rack, Gilles Savary, Brian Simpson, Renate Sommer, Ulrich Stockmann, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Yannick Vaugrenard, Roberts Zīle
относно състоянието и перспективите на селското стопанство в планинските райони
on the situation and outlook for hill and mountain farming
PE 404.526v02-00
PE 404.526v02-00
ПРОЕКТОРЕЗОЛЮЦИЯ НА ЕВРОПЕЙСКИЯ ПАРЛАМЕНТ............................................3
MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION...............................................3
СТАНОВИЩЕ на комисията по регионално развитие ..................................19
OPINION of the Committee on Regional Development ..................................18
– като взе предвид доклада на комисията по земеделие и развитие на селските райони и становището на комисията по регионално развитие ( A6-0327/2008 ),
– having regard to the report of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the opinion of the Committee on Regional Development ( A6‑0327/2008 ),
А. като има предвид, че планинските райони представляват 40 % от територията на Европа и в тях живеят 19 % от нейното население 5 ,
A. whereas mountain areas account for 40 % of Europe's total surface area and are home to 19 % of Europe's population
В. като има предвид, че планинските райони (преди всичко високо- и среднопланинските области) представляват културно пространство, отражение на хармоничното взаимодействие между човека и биосистемите и част от природното наследство,
C. whereas mountain areas (particularly high mountains and highlands) are cultural landscapes that reflect the harmonious interaction between humans and biosystems and form part of our natural heritage,
Г. като има предвид, че планинските региони изпитват по остър начин отрицателните последствия от изменението на климата и от крайните метеорологически явления като суша и горски пожари,
D. whereas mountain areas suffer intensely from the effects of climate change and extreme weather phenomena, such as drought and fires,
Д. като има предвид, че планинските райони не са еднороден пейзаж, а обхващат между другото планински области с най-различна форма и надморска височина (високопланински области, среднопланински области, глетчери, непроизводителни райони),
E. whereas the landscape of mountain areas is not uniform but made up of very diverse forms of mountain range at varying altitudes (high mountains, highlands, glaciers, unproductive areas),
Е. като има предвид, че планинските райони се отличават от останалите райони в Европейския съюз с определени специфични фактори (наклон на склоновете, различна надморска височина, непроходимост, нарастване, по-кратки периоди на естествен растеж, по-ниско качество на почвата, атмосферни и климатични условия), и които в много отношения са "необлагодетелствани", поради постоянни неблагоприятни природни условия; като има предвид, че в някои планински райони това води до тяхното постепенно опустиняване и до намаляване на селскостопанското производство,
F. whereas mountain areas have specific features (gradient, varied altitude, inaccessibility, growth, shorter growing seasons, low soil classification, weather and climatic conditions) which make them different from other landscapes in the European Union and they are in many respects 'disadvantaged' due to permanent natural handicaps, and whereas in some mountain areas this results in their gradual desertification and declining agricultural production,
Ж. като има предвид, че планинските райони (преди всичко високо- и среднопланинските области) притежават потенциал и са модел за качествена продукция и услуги, както и място за отдих, потенциал, който бива устойчиво активизиран само посредством интегрирано и дългосрочно използване на ресурсите и традициите,
G. whereas mountain areas (particularly high mountains and highlands) have the potential or could be a model for high-quality products, services and recreational areas, that can only be sustainably developed through the integrated and long-term use of resources and traditions,
З. като има предвид, че в планинските райони се произвеждат продукти на животновъдството със специални качествени характеристики и че техният производствен процес се осъществява интегрираното и чрез устойчиво оползотворяване на природните ресурси, на пасищата и на специално пригодените разнообразни хранителни растения, а също така и използването на традиционна технология,
H. whereas stockfarming products of particular quality are produced in mountain areas and whereas their production process makes integrated and sustainable use of natural resources, pastureland and specially adapted varieties of grazing crops as well as traditional technology,
И. като има предвид, че планините (преди всичко високо- и среднопланинските области) представляват "мултифункционална" жизнена среда, където икономиката (селското стопанство) е тясно свързана със социалните, културните и екологичните аспекти, и че вследствие на това е необходимо тези райони да се подпомагат посредством отпускането на подходящо финансиране,
I. whereas mountains (particularly high mountains and highlands) are 'multifunctional' habitats, in which the (agricultural) economy is closely tied to social, cultural and ecological issues, and whereas such areas should therefore be given support in the form of appropriate funding,
Й като има предвид, че поради постоянните структурни недостатъци икономиката на планинските райони е особено чувствителна по отношение на колебанията в икономическия цикъл и в дългосрочен план зависи от диверсифицирането и специализирането на производствените процеси,
J. whereas the economy of mountain areas is particularly sensitive to fluctuations in the economic cycle, because of permanent structural shortcomings, and, in the long term, is dependent on the diversification and specialisation of production processes,
К като има предвид, че с Алпийската и Карпатската конвенция вече са налице европейски правни инструменти за защита на определени планински райони и следователно важни инструменти за единна политика на планинските райони, въпреки че тяхната ратификация и прилагане са недостатъчни,
K. whereas there are already European legal instruments for the protection of a number of mountain areas - the Alpine Convention and the Carpathian Convention - which, accordingly, are important instruments for an integrated policy on mountain areas, although they have not been fully ratified and implemented,
Л. като има предвид, че селското стопанство, горското стопанство и стопанисването на пасища в планинските райони, които често пъти представляват многостранна дейност, са пример за екологично равновесие - факт, който не може да бъде пренебрегван,
L. whereas the agro‑sylvo‑pastoral economies of mountain areas, which often comprise multiple activities, are an example of environmental balance that cannot be overlooked,
М. като има предвид, че по-голямата част от селскостопанските предприятия в планинските райони са семейни предприятия с повишена степен на финансов риск,
M. whereas the majority of farms in mountain areas are family farms with high financial risk,
10. призовава Комисията, с цел трансфер на знания и поощряване на иновациите, да извърши преглед на финансираните програми и проектите по теми, които са от значение за планинските райони;
Calls on the Commission to produce an overview of programmes and projects funded on topics of relevance to mountain areas for the purpose of transferring knowledge and promoting innovation;