Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-14-Speech-2-022"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as a Liberal, I am very satisfied with the railways package and our four rapporteurs’ reports. Particularly with the fact that Mr Jarzembowski has included passenger transport in his report and has outlined a plan for it. The further liberalisation of Europe’s oldest mechanised infrastructure, the railways, is an essential stimulus for a sector that is quickly losing ground in the European goods traffic market. I cannot emphasis often enough that liberalisation is somewhat different from independence or uncontrolled privatisation, as was tried in the UK. It is of vital importance – including for the sector itself – that we have more providers on the European railways. Only then can we achieve a healthy railway market through genuine competition. Why not let the NS-cargo/DB-cargo combination compete directly with SNCF. There is nothing wrong with that. It must all be safe, so we, the legislators, must assume our responsibility for this.
Mrs Ainardi’s report is based on interoperability, acknowledging each other, the international recognition of regulations, the recognition of signals and the recognition of safety standards. That is also why it is so important to pay attention to this. That is why the European Railways Agency, proposed the Savary report, is so important.
From an organisational point of view, I would like the European Railways Agency to be coordinated with the European Maritime Safety Agency so that all these matters are organised independently, transparently, unambiguously and logically for all parties concerned. Foresight is the essence of government. In order to achieve efficiency, perhaps we can combine everything in the European safety agencies for the various modes of transport at some stage in the distant future and in this way integrate the sector fully with other modes. After all, this is all about railway transport being integrated with society, integrated with roads and integrated with water in order to get products and goods from A to B more easily."@en1
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