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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this report is important for this Parliament because it gives our work in the coming years direction. I would therefore like to thank the rapporteur for the way in which he has approached the matter. He has succeeded in proposing good compromises for the main issues. I will limit myself to three key points.
The first is the importance of the social dimension of transport. One cannot further open up and liberalise the transport market in the coming years without doing anything about the social aspect. The social bar must be set at the same level, and that is why it is vital to my group that the Commission should, by around 2013, issue a thorough analysis of the social conditions as well as the market and employment conditions for all means of transport. On that basis, proposals will have to be made with a view to creating a level playing field at a high level for all employees. This is important in order to guarantee the attractiveness of the sector.
Secondly, we must make the transport sector more efficient and more sustainable, otherwise we will get nowhere and that would cost our economy and the environment very dear. There are no magic potions to sort it out. This will require a mixture of measures relating to price incentives and a better energy mix, the right investments to find sustainable alternatives and the introduction of new technologies. Important paragraphs are devoted to this, for which I thank the rapporteur.
Finally, I wish to stress the importance of technical interoperability, particularly in the railways sector, but not just there. The rapporteur referred to air transport, an area in which a more integrated European airspace has been able to bring huge efficiency gains. However, this demands all the more work for the railways. It is infuriating that, for example, Thalys still needs seven safety and signalling systems in order to operate in three countries because approval and certification procedures are different and each time need to be repeated. In brief, ladies and gentlemen, we have a lot of work before us, and I think that this report forms a good basis for the coming years."@en1
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