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". I share the report’s preliminary approach, which stresses the need to take the external costs of charging into greater consideration. Obviously, infrastructure needs to be meticulously maintained and modernised. But what funding must be sought? The report stresses that nothing must hinder the development of the market in Member States, i.e. that business profits must not be made use of. The social dumping practised by the road industry or the scandal involving motorway concessions, for example, are not challenged in any way. Not wishing to increase taxation also entails preventing state intervention so as not to obstruct the sacrosanct rule of competition. On the contrary, the rapporteur advocates pursuing “the aim of phasing out distortions of competition between Member States”. Nowhere does the report make any reference to a state response to social needs, yet, on the other hand, the only response to the “all market” solution is to appeal to private companies, for both the construction and the management of infrastructure. As a result, the only parties to pay that are clearly identified in the text are road users, and that is why I shall not be voting in favour of this report."@en1

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