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". – Mr President, as announced in the Commission's Transport White Paper of 12 September 2001, the Marco Polo Programme will provide Community funding to new international transport solutions which offer a viable alternative to road-freight transport. More specifically, the programme should help shift the expected increase in international road freight of 12 billion tonnes per km per year from congested roads to short-sea shipping, rail and inland waterway services.
The programme will be operational by 2003 and will last until 2010. For the five-year period from 2003-2007, we propose an overall budget of EUR 115 million. Marco Polo is an ambitious and pragmatic programme, geared to concretely improving services and logistics in the short-sea, rail and inland waterway freight markets. At the same time, it provides for appropriate monitoring and control to exclude unacceptable distortions of competition in the market. Marco Polo is thus more than a single continuation of the PACT Programme, which came to an end on 31 December 2001.
Marco Polo will be able to co-fund actions leading to modal shifts and better practices in all segments of the short-sea shipping, rail and inland waterway freight logistic markets. It will not be restricted to the combined transport sector as PACT was. Marco Polo will also support actions involving countries outside the European Union and candidate countries, in particular the applicant countries, whereas PACT excluded them. The programme also gives clear policy directions to industry on what changes the Community expects and needs in the freight market.
In this context, it proposes funding for three different types of actions: modal shift actions, catalyst actions and common learning actions. A few words on each of them.
Modal shift actions: these involved start-up aid for new services in the non-road freight market.
Catalyst actions: this aid is also limited in time and should lead to viable non-road freight services. However, these actions are more ambitious than modal shift actions. They should change the way that non-road freight transport is conducted in Europe.
Common learning actions: these seek to improve cooperation and share know-how in an increasingly complex transport and logistics industry. In order to achieve a real European added value, the Commission proposes to support only projects of significant impact on the market, which implies sufficiently large contracts.
I have outlined to you the Commission's objective in setting up the programme and I now look forward with great interest to the debate."@en1
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