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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would firstly like to express my gratitude for the work of the rapporteur, Mr Bradbourn, and for the speech by Mr Dover, who is replacing the rapporteur for this presentation to plenary.
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like, in general, to thank Parliament for its constructive attitude, which, thanks to a tripartite and informal meeting which took place last November, has allowed us to reach an agreement which will mean that we can implement the Marco Polo programme quickly with a contribution of EUR 75 million in four years. This project must facilitate the development of intermodality within the European Union.
Intermodality is absolutely essential if we want to make our transport systems more effective and efficient. Intermodality consists of overcoming the unimodal approach to transport and taking account of all the different systems and modes in order to optimise the resources and possibilities we have within the European Union in order to achieve efficient transport.
Thanks to this programme we will be able to finance, amongst other things, the first sea motorway projects, which are already under way with agreements between Italy, France and Spain in the western Mediterranean area, and other projects of this nature in the Atlantic area, together with other projects relating to the combination of inland waterways and rail transport and, finally, also of sea and road transport of course.
I would like once again to express my thanks for the work done. I believe it is a good text, that we have achieved a reasonable and balanced result and what we now need to do is to promote, through this and all the other measures, a competitive and efficient transport system which is at the service of economic efficiency and the development of growth."@en1
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