Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-12-17-Speech-3-160"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-12-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Electronic road toll systems2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031217.5.3-160"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-12-17-Speech-3-1612
lpv:speaker	lp:Eija-Riitta Korhola2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Suomen kristillisdemokraatit rp (2001-05-30--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Temporary committee on improving safety at sea (2003-11-20--2004-04-21)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Commission proposal deserves Parliament’s support. It should be our mission to encourage the taking of still greater steps, but the committee’s report is a disappointment as far as that is concerned. Firstly, the committee considers the issue from many angles but does not question the fact that the system only applies to commercial transport. Secondly, the committee still seems to think that road tolls should cover the costs of road maintenance. Thirdly, with the approach the committee is proposing the EU will not achieve sufficient lift-off as far as sustainable development is concerned. I now want to go into rather more detail regarding these three factors. In the adoption of road toll systems one has to be wary of a situation where an increase in private transport completely cancels out the benefit of a reduction in commercial transport. The only sustainable solution is for the system to apply to all road transport in the same way right from the start. This solution is not unfair to private motorists because satellite positioning equipment is rapidly becoming more and more common in cars. There will be a significant proportion of them by 2008 when the European Galileo system becomes operational. It is essential to take the external costs of traffic into account so that with any road toll imposed the marginal cost matches the ceiling amount charged. In this way traffic would not have to pay the present external cost, but one based on a new balanced charge that reflects the volume of traffic. What should therefore be regarded as the prime objective is that the volume of traffic on a route or in a zone where charges apply is at an optimal level at different times and that what constitutes that optimal level is determined by market mechanisms. In my view these conditions will be met most easily with satellite positioning systems and that is why we should venture to agree, as the Commission has proposed, to adopt this technology promptly as a basis for a European system. In this way bringing technology onto the market will also mean large-scale benefits that transport companies above all will enjoy in terms of decreasing costs. I imagine people are muttering to themselves about the inadequacy of legislative powers. I would remind them, however, of the ever greater part traffic plays as a producer of carbon dioxide emissions. Although the car industry, with EU support, has done and is doing important work to develop low emission vehicles there is good reason to introduce road toll systems specifically to reduce emissions. I refer to Article 174 of the Treaty on European Union."@en1

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