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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Community railways2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030114.1.2-029"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-14-Speech-2-0302
lpv:speaker	lp:Joaquim Miranda2
lpv:spokenAs	chair; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-22--2004-01-31)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-01-31)3 unknown; Partido Comunista Português (1999-07-20--2004-01-31)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2002-01-22--2004-01-31)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-01-31)3 member; EUL/NGL (2002-03-06--2004-01-31)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we of course support all measures designed to enhance the role of rail transport and to change the present situation, which favours road transport. That is why we particularly support the reports by Sylviane Ainardi and Gilles Savary. If we want to have a competitive European railway system, we must harmonise technical standards and remove bottlenecks in the international network, and at the same time create high safety standards. Nevertheless, we will not achieve the interoperability needed by liberalising this sector. In cases where this has happened, private operators have not responded, particularly as regards the high levels of investment required. Nor has the Commission told us where it is going to find the finance needed to achieve this goal. It will not help at all to increase the flow of traffic by stimulating competition between the various operators if all the trains are forced to run on the same tracks, because that will simply lead to greater chaos and congestion. Furthermore, we are against the total liberalisation of the freight and passenger transport sectors by 2008. We oppose this extreme position just as we oppose the Commission proposal to anticipate the opening up of the market in international freight transport, and we equally cannot accept the Member States being prevented from setting safety standards higher than those stipulated by the EU, simply so as not to create difficulties in opening up this market. We are responsible to Europe's citizens. We must have the courage to fight for a public rail transport service which is of a high standard and safe, which will encourage people to use it."@en1

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