Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-10-20-Speech-1-100"

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lpv:document identification number	"en.20031020.7.1-100"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Marinus Wiersma2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-09-25--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partij van de Arbeid (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, I warmly support the rapporteur. We in the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism, not being environmental scientists, have only examined the rationale underlying this report. Of key importance is, of course, the principle that the same standards must apply on and off the roads. With regard to non-road mobile machinery, we must draw our conclusions from experience gathered from cleaning engines in lorries. This report clearly indicates how the methods used can also be applied to other polluting engines in road machinery other than trucks. The share of emissions of non-mobile machinery has increased relatively speaking, precisely because of the success of engine cleaning techniques used in lorries. This is, in my view, an additional argument in favour of this adaptation. In a broader sense, though, this is also about the reputation of water and rail transport, of which it has always been claimed that they are cleaner than road transport. If that is the case, progress should also be made here, and cleaner diesel engines must be provided. The technology exists and is becoming available, and this is why the sector is given time to adjust. This must be done in such a way as to ensure that an incentive is given to the sector to accelerate the replacement process with diesel engines that are cleaner and that meet the prescribed conditions. Needless to say, harmonisation must also be examined at global level. This is about one market of a certain type of machinery, and that too has been given due consideration in the report. The Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism supports the purport of the rapporteur's proposals and we are, in principle, in favour of including in this report environmental standards for diesel machinery, that is to say diesel engines used in rail transport with a capacity in excess of 560 KW. In this respect, the rule that applies elsewhere should also apply here, namely that the sector is given a reasonable amount of time, coupled to technological development, to carry out the necessary innovations. In short, on behalf of the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism, I can say that Mr Lange's proposals are a step in the right direction."@en1

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