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Madam President, I am very pleased to be here in Strasbourg to represent the Council at your last part-session of 2005. I am grateful to you for the opportunity to say a few words in your debate on the Eurovignette dossier.
When Mr Darling addressed the Committee on Transport and Tourism in June he said that the UK would do all it could to secure an agreement between the Council and Parliament during our Presidency. However, he also warned that this would not be easy because the Council had little room for manoeuvre. I know that this is also true for Parliament. I am therefore very pleased that Parliament and the Council have been able to work together to bring this important and highly political dossier to what, I hope, will be a successful conclusion.
I particularly congratulate Mrs Wortmann-Kool, your rapporteur, for her hard work and the dedication to find an agreement acceptable to both Parliament and the Council.
The amendments to the existing directive on the charging of heavy goods vehicles will make a real difference. In particular, they will allow Member States to do the following: levy charges on all roads rather than just motorways; charge goods vehicles down to 3.5 tonnes and not just vehicles of more than 12 tonnes; benefit from much more scope to vary tolls to influence hauliers’ behaviour to reduce congestion and pollution; impose a mark-up in mountainous regions to combat congestion and pollution and raise new funds for major trans-European network projects. The directive will provide for the Commission to develop a model for the assessment of external costs in no longer than two years.
This model, together with an impact assessment, will, if appropriate, allow the Commission to bring forward a proposal for further amendment of the Eurovignette directive. I am sure that I do not need to say that these are important achievements on a new directive which will balance the interests of the peripheral states and transit countries, hauliers, environmentalists and, most of all, will benefit the citizens of Europe.
I should like to congratulate all concerned once again for managing to find a compromise that satisfies both the Council and Parliament."@en1
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