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"Madam President, I should like to talk about two matters: first, in my capacity as shadow rapporteur for the PPE-DE Group on various transport matters; secondly, as shadow rapporteur on the other institutions. So firstly, I should like to address Mrs de Palacio and secondly, Commissioner Schreyer.
The TENs programme is a wonderful one, which allows transport, energy and telematics projects throughout Europe to be decided upon by the nation states themselves in order to connect the 15 countries now in the Union with the 10 countries coming in, embracing the whole of the European Union and making sure that each nation can build its part within the trans-European network. I have nothing but full confidence in that programme. I would just point out that there is an item of some EUR 225 million for studies relating to it in the budget, whereas the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism, of which I am a substitute Member, says that they do not want more studies but more action and implementation on the ground.
With regard to the Marco Polo programme on transfer to other modes of transport, away from road traffic and the congestion which it causes, I give that my full support. We need to have more telematics and computer information technology used to advance the efficient movement of goods and passengers throughout the European Union.
Touching upon the Galileo project, we need to maximise the use of the private sector. I welcome this project. I hope that we will not use it for automatic levying of tolls on lorries, but rather allow individual drivers of private commercial vehicles to avoid congestion by knowing their best route from where they are to where they want to go: in other words, to help the motorists rather than tax and hinder them.
On the other institutions, we have had useful discussions in the last day or two. I was delighted to attend the conciliation meeting in July and pay tribute to Mr Magri and his superb chairmanship of that committee. There was one matter that was left. That was where our rapporteur, Mrs Gill, thought that the Commission and the Council were being generous - I would say extremely generous - in their attitude to the budgets proposed by three of the other institutions: the Court of Justice, the Committee of the Regions, and the Economic and Social Committee. Whereas Parliament's budget is only going up by 13%, the Council's by 21% and the Commission's by 8% or 9%, the Court of Justice, for example, is asking for 57%. I am delighted the Council has knocked that figure down to 46%. But in an amendment that we tabled from the United Kingdom delegation, we are asking for a further, similar reduction. The same applies to the Economic and Social Committee. It asked for 33%, knocked down by the Council to 27%. We want it down by the same percentage again. The Committee of the Regions asked for 63% and was knocked down to 54%. We want a further reduction to 46%.
We can afford these increases, but that is not the point. We must get the best possible value for money from these other institutions and ask them to re-examine their budget spending."@en1
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