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"Mr President, the Commission White Paper ‘Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area’, adopted on 28 March 2011, defines a vision for a competitive and resource-efficient transport system and a policy agenda for the coming years.
I would like sincerely to thank the rapporteur, Mathieu Grosch, and the members of the Committee on Transport and Tourism for the input given to the Commission throughout this exercise. It all started with the report on the 2009 communication on a sustainable future for transport.
I believe there is wide agreement on the importance of preserving an efficient and competitive transport sector. Transport is an essential support for the internal market and the economic integration of all regions of Europe in the global economy. Transport is also an important economic sector itself, with 10 million jobs in transport services and another 8 million in the manufacture of transport vehicles. Transport is also essential for social and territorial cohesion.
This is why I am convinced that curbing mobility is not a sensible alternative in order to make transport sustainable. But I am also convinced that, without finding ways of using less and cleaner energy and of better exploiting infrastructure, we will be forced into such a detrimental alternative.
The White Paper sets a target for a 60% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 with respect to 1990 and ten goals that will benchmark progress until that date. There are 40 concrete initiatives which the Commission intends to take within the current mandate in order to address transport challenges. We are fully committed to this agenda. The Commission will, in 2011, deliver about 20% of the initiatives listed in the White Paper – and not the least important ones.
I will continue, based on the wide support given in your report to several key proposals, such as the internalisation of external costs of transport; the Single European Sky; the maritime Blue Belt; urban sustainable mobility plans and, in general, the completion of the internal market in transport.
As the Commission announced in its work programme, I intend to put forward very ambitious proposals next year. Concerning rail, the programme should include measures to develop the European single railway area. New legislation should also contribute to the development of clean fuel vehicles and priorities set for innovation and technological development. We will also make further steps towards the full internalisation of all externalities and for the elimination of tax distortions.
I hope I can count on Parliament’s continued support to make the vision outlined in the White Paper a reality."@en1
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