FINAL
A6-0221/2007
8.6.2007
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RAPORT
referitor la propunerea de directivă a Parlamentului European şi a Consiliului privind gestionarea siguranţei infrastructurii rutiere
(COM(2006)0569 – C6‑0331/2006 – 2006/0182(COD))
Comisia pentru transport şi turism
Raportor:
Helmuth Markov
PE 386.517v02-00
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* Procedura de consultare majoritatea voturilor exprimate
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*** Aviz conform majoritatea membrilor care compun Parlamentul, cu excepţia cazurilor prevăzute la articolele 105, 107, 161 şi 300 din Tratatul CE şi la articolul 7 din Tratatul UE
***I Procedura de codecizie (prima lectură) majoritatea voturilor exprimate
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***III Procedura de codecizie (a treia lectură) majoritatea voturilor exprimate pentru a aproba proiectul comun
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CUPRINS
PROIECT DE REZOLUŢIE LEGISLATIVĂ A PARLAMENTULUI EUROPEAN...................5
EXPUNERE DE MOTIVE..........................................................................................................6
AVIZ al ComisiEI pentru industrie, cercetare şi energie ...............................9
PROCEDURĂ...........................................................................................................................16
PROIECT DE REZOLUŢIE LEGISLATIVĂ A PARLAMENTULUI EUROPEAN
referitoare la propunerea de directivă a Parlamentului European şi a Consiliului privind gestionarea siguranţei infrastructurii rutiere
( COM(2006)0569 – C6‑0331/2006 – 2006/0182(COD) )
(Procedura de codecizie: prima lectură)
Parlamentul European ,
– având în vedere propunerea Comisiei prezentată Parlamentului European şi Consiliului ( COM(2006)0569 )
Nepublicată încă în JO. ,
– având în vedere rezoluţia sa din 29 septembrie 2005 privind Programele europene de acţiune pentru siguranţa rutieră
JO C227E, 21.9.2006, p.609 ,
– având în vedere rezoluţia sa din 18 ianuarie 2007 privind Programul european de acţiune pentru siguranţa rutieră - Bilanţ la jumătatea perioadei
Texte adoptate, P6_TA(2007)0009 . ,
– având în vedere articolul 251 alineatul (2) şi articolul 71 alineatul (1) litera (c) din Tratatul CE, în temeiul cărora propunerea a fost prezentată de către Comisie Parlamentului ( C6-0331/2006 ),
– având în vedere articolul 51 din Regulamentul său de procedură,
– având în vedere raportul Comisiei pentru transport şi turism şi avizul Comisiei pentru industrie, cercetare şi energie ( A6-0221/2007 ),
1. respinge propunerea Comisiei;
2. invită Comisia să formuleze recomandări privind gestionarea siguranţei infrastructurilor rutiere;
3. încredinţează Preşedintelui sarcina de a transmite Consiliului şi Comisiei poziţia Parlamentului.
EXPUNERE DE MOTIVE
The Commission proposal
The proposal for this Directive follows on from the European road safety action programme which the Commission announced in 2003, as part of the programme set up by the 2001 White Paper
Commission White Paper 'European transport policy for 2010: time to decide', COM (2001)0370 to seek ways of improving the safety of road infrastructure.
In 2001 the EU set itself the ambitious goal of halving by 2010 the number of deaths on the EU's roads, from 50 000 to 25 000.
However, in 2005 the number of road deaths was still 41 500.
In 2001 Parliament had called on the Commission to draw up guidelines for dealing with accident black spots and for road building projects to include safety audits
European Parliament resolution A5-0381/2000 of 18 January 2001 .
Although much has been achieved in past decades in the areas of vehicle safety and driver training, in the area of infrastructure, the third pillar of an integrated road safety concept, there are still no unified European rules.
Safety standards for road infrastructure in the various Member States differ significantly in their structure and scope.
Safety concerns play a subsidiary role when roads are designed.
There are also problems with road maintenance: the existing road network in many cases does not meet modern safety standards and was often built to carry less traffic than is currently the case.
Data from investigations of accident black spots take a long time to reach the relevant authorities.
In many Member States the authorities responsible for road building have to tackle the problem of more exacting safety requirements while road networks are overloaded and financial resources diminishing.
It is because of reasons such as this that the Community's intended objectives are still very far from being achieved.
The Directive therefore aims to establish infrastructure safety as an objective in its own right, in parallel with economic and environmental protection factors, at all stages of the planning, design and use of roads.
A uniformly high level of safety should prevail on the roads of all the EU Member States, and infrastructure planners must be made aware of safety issues.
Road infrastructure administrators should receive the guidelines, training and information they need to ensure that they can maintain a road network that meets modern safety requirements.
And care must be taken to ensure that the limited resources are targeted to improving road safety.
To achieve these aims, the Directive proposes four procedures:
· impact assessment of the effect of road building on safety: for all variants of an infrastructure project the impact of new roads or major changes to existing roads must be examined;
· safety audits: an independent auditor must evaluate the design specifications of all infrastructure projects to be implemented in the Member States with regard to their accident potential;
· improving safety in the existing road network: sections of roads with a high accident rate and with a high potential for accident prevention must be investigated more intensively and when necessary appropriate measures taken;
· safety inspections: regular inspections of road infrastructure by trained staff are a binding requirement.
Some Member States already have provisions of this kind.
The Directive aims to introduce such measures throughout the EU.
However, it does not lay down any binding technical arrangements, so that the Member States have the option of maintaining their existing rules and procedures.
The costs arising from implementing this Directive are therefore estimated to be low and are far below the expected economic benefits of preventing welfare costs through saving lives.
An impact assessment that the Commission ordered when drawing up this proposal estimates that implementation of this Directive on the Trans-European road network will save more than 600 lives a year and prevent about 7000 accidents resulting in injury.
In addition when drawing up this directive, the Commission based its work on hearings with many experts and interest groups and a high level group of national road safety authorities.
Although the proposal aims to achieve a unified safety level on all roads in the Member States, the Commission proposal refers only to the Trans-European road network.
To achieve valid, universal, high safety standards for the Trans European road network, a binding methodology is needed and a basis for introducing safety procedures must be created.
An exchange of good practice is not enough.
However, this Directive also aims to improve the exchange of good practice between the Member States.
Rapporteur's proposed amendments
Your rapporteur substantially supports the Commission proposal.
He considers, however, that some parts of it should be deepened and strengthened.
He therefore proposes amendments as follows.
· The Directive should apply not only to the current Trans-European road network but to all motorways and main roads in the Member States.
Roads in the Trans-European network already have a high safety standard and the accident rate on these roads is relatively low.
Applying the Directive only to this part of the European road network would bring only a small advantage.
The impact assessment that was ordered by the Commission when drawing up this proposal stated that another 400 lives a year could be saved if safety management for the whole motorway network was introduced, and a further 900 could be saved if it was applied to the whole main road network.
· Article 2(2) of the Commission proposal defines ‘competent entity’ as a public or private organisation.
Article 2(8) gives the competent entity the power to adopt guidelines on safety principles to be applied when roads are built or renovated in a Member State.
Your rapporteur considers that the responsibility for establishing and monitoring the guidelines required by the Directive should be the express preserve of the public authorities.
· The cost-benefit analysis (Article 3(3)) should be subject to harmonised criteria in all Member States and therefore harmonised forms should be used to transmit this information.
· The timing of regular routine checks should be laid down more exactly (Article 6(3)), and they should be carried out at least once in winter and once in summer.
As weather conditions have a large influence on the quality of infrastructure a seasonal connection is appropriate.
· The time-lapse before the Directive enters into force should be reduced, and the periods before initial training and between retraining periods for safety auditors should be shortened (Articles 8 and 9).
· To avoid any conflict between the aims of freedom of movement of workers in the internal market and road infrastructure safety, your rapporteur proposes that minimum criteria be laid down for training and retraining of auditors and therefore that certificates gained in one Member State should be recognised in all Member States (Article 9).
· To take account of rapid developments in traffic and traffic infrastructure in the EU, the Commission should regularly analyse and evaluate the measures taken in the Member States and the data collected.
Your rapporteur considers that a standard format for the report form would be useful.
The Commission has to report to Parliament on the outcome of the analyses (Article 10).
Depending on the outcomes, the arrangements in the Directive's annexes should be adapted if necessary to take account of technical progress, by means of the comitology procedure with parliamentary scrutiny.
· The new comitology regulatory procedure with scrutiny should be applied in this directive to two articles: Article 10 (5) laying down guidelines for competent entities and Article 10a (new) adapting the annexes to technical progress.
The new procedure enables Parliament to object to a measure adopted in the comitology procedure within three months.
· Your rapporteur considers that the annexes should include additional references, e.g. to climatic conditions, parking areas and lay-bys, safety barriers and signposting of roadworks, to improve the quality of the safety measures.
28.3.2007
AVIZ al ComisiEI pentru industrie, cercetare şi energie
destinat Comisiei pentru transport şi turism
referitor la propunerea de directivă a Parlamentului European şi a Consiliului privind gestionarea siguranţei infrastructurii rutiere
( COM(2006)0569 – C6‑0331/2006 – 2006/0182(COD) )
Raportor pentru aviz: Ivo Belet
JUSTIFICARE SUCCINTĂ
In 2001 the EU set itself the ambitious objective of halving the number of fatalities on European roads by 2010.
While progress is being made, EU road accidents still cause at present around 40.000 victims and 1.7 million injuries per year.
This is the equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every day on our roads.
Road accidents are the leading cause of death for people under 45 years.
Road safety requires action on the level of the vehicle, the driver and the infrastructure.
Significant progress has been made in the past decades in terms of vehicle safety and traffic rules.
However, f or road safety infrastructure, no such joint effort has yet been carried out at European level.
This Directive aims at filling this gap by ensuring that safety is integrated in all phases of planning, design and operation of road infrastructure in the Trans-European Network.
All Member States are required to carry out road safety impact assessments, road safety audits, safety inspections and network safety management.
The setting and defining of technical standards or requirements is left to the Member States.
Your draftsman welcomes this proposal, which is estimated to reduce the number of fatalities by more than 600 per year, creating an annual welfare benefit of more than € 2.4 billions.
Our economy and society depend heavily on a safe and efficient road transport.
The unnecessary loss of life and the huge socio-economic cost of road accidents (estimated at € 200 billion a year) are both unacceptable.
Safety is and should be one of the major issues for all stakeholders in the area of road transport.
Your draftsman sees this Directive, therefore, as part of a new "safety deal", linking in a realistic way all the actors of the safety chain - the drivers, the vehicles, the roads, the policy makers and the citizens - in their common effort to save thousands of needless casualties and billions of euros every year.
Attention to safety during road design, construction and maintenance can make a significant contribution in reducing the frequency and severity of road traffic accidents by influencing driver behaviour and by eliminating defects in road design.
The importance and relevance of improved infrastructure (e.g. quality of motorways and road networks, traffic lanes, traffic signs) was also highlighted recently in Parliament's Resolution on the mid-term review of the European Road Safety Action Programme (18th of January 2007).
Your draftsman would like to highlight two points.
The first one concerns the scope of the Directive, which is limited to the Trans-European road Network.
This network consists of almost 90.000 km of roads, but is almost entirely made up of motorway or similar grade roads.
These roads are not where the majority of fatalities occur.
Most of the casualties are produced on single carriageway roads outside of urban areas.
According to research many of those accidents could be avoided if the existing road infrastructure was managed according to the best available know-how of safety engineering.
From a subsidiarity point of view, a limitation of the scope of the Directive to trans-European roads is understandable.
However, in order to increase the safety of all other roads in the EU, your draftsman would recommend to improve the use of existing, but fragmented exchanges of best practices.
Furthermore, your draftsman would like to introduce a review clause in the proposal, requesting the commission on the basis of the experience gained to, inter alia, reassess the scope of the proposal.
Your draftsperson would like to stress the importance of research, especially in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
Research is a vital instrument in improving safety on European roads.
Developing and demonstrating components, measures and methods (including telematics) can increase the safety of the infrastructure elements of road transport.
In particular, research and development of communications technology for infrastructure can enable safe and secure transfer of information between vehicle and infrastructure.
This is necessary for new vehicle safety technology to become available and used to its full capacity.
Intelligent Transport Systems, that for example detect hazards on the road ahead and inform drivers of them even before they are visible, have the potential to save lives and reduce the congestion caused by accidents.
In this respect, your draftsman would like to stress the importance of research projects carried out under the Research Framework Programme and the dissemination of their results.
Furthermore, the interesting and important work done by research networks, such as the European Road Assessment Programme (EURORAP), and Technology Platforms, such as the European Road Transport Research Advisory Council (ERTRAC), should be mentioned.
AMENDAMENTE
Comisia pentru industrie, cercetare şi energie recomandă Comisiei pentru transport şi turism, competentă în fond, să includă în raportul său următoarele amendamente:
Text propus de Comisie
Nepublicat încă în JO.
Amendamentele Parlamentului
Text de referinţă inexistent în RO.
Traducere provizorie a dispoziţiilor modificate, efectuată de Unitatea de Traducere Română.
Amendamentul
1
Considerentul 4a (nou)
(4a) Cercetarea este esenţială pentru ameliorarea siguranţei rutiere în Europa.
Activităţile de dezvoltare şi de demonstrare de elemente, măsuri şi metode (în special telematica), precum şi difuzarea rezultatelor cercetărilor joacă un rol esenţial în sporirea siguranţei infrastructurii rutiere.
Justification
In the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development, a substantial budget had been agreed upon in order to boost European research, also in the field of road infrastructure safety (e.g. developing advanced engineering systems and risk analysis methodologies for the design of infrastructure).
Improving the dissemination of the results of Community research is however vital to achieve those goals.
In its Resolution on the Road Safety Action Programme Mid-term Review of 18 January 2007, the European Parliament called for intensive research and cooperation between all stakeholders.
Amendamentul
2
Considerentul 5a (nou)
(5a) Pentru a ameliora şi mai mult siguranţa drumurilor existente, ar trebui luat în considerare efectul negativ al vehiculelor foarte grele, cu o greutate totală de până la 60 de tone şi o lungime maximă de 25,25 metri, care prezintă numeroase riscuri pentru siguranţă.
Justification
So-called Gigaliners and Megatrucks are endangering safety on Europe’s roads.
Many motorways have no retention systems capable of withstanding a collision with these vehicles.
Road accidents involving such vehicles would have grave consequences and bridge constructions would also be exposed to high stress levels.
Amendamentul
3
Considerentul 8a (nou)
(8a) Pentru a spori siguranţa drumurilor din Uniunea Europeană care nu fac parte din Reţeaua transeuropeană de transport, ar trebui instituit un sistem coerent pentru schimbul celor mai bune practici între statele membre, care să acopere, printre altele, proiectele existente în materie de siguranţă a infrastructurii rutiere, precum şi tehnologiile verificate în materie de siguranţă rutieră, precum marcajele reflectorizante încastrate, denumite „ochi de pisică”.
Comisia ar trebui să efectueze o evaluare promptă a prezentei directive pentru a stabili dacă domeniul ei de aplicare ar trebui extins pentru a include toate drumurile importante din statele membre, acordându-se o atenţie specială utilizatorilor rutieri vulnerabili .
Amendamentul
4
Considerentul 8b (nou)
(8a) Transferul modal de la transportul rutier la cel feroviar poate constitui un instrument important pentru promovarea siguranţei rutiere.
Amendamentul
5
Articolul 10 alineatul (1)
(1) Statele membre prezintă Comisiei un raport privind punerea în aplicare a prezentei directive la cinci ani de la intrarea în vigoare a acesteia şi, ulterior, din patru în patru ani.
(1) Statele membre prezintă Comisiei un raport privind punerea în aplicare a prezentei directive la patru ani de la intrarea în vigoare a acesteia şi, ulterior, din patru în patru ani.
Justification
It is important to review this proposal.
In order for the review to be in time, the Commission should earlier be aware of the state of implementation.
Amendamentul
6
Articolul 10 alineatul (4)
(4) Comisia analizează rapoartele şi informaţiile primite şi transmite, dacă este cazul , Parlamentului European şi Consiliului, un raport privind punerea în aplicare a prezentei directive .
(4) Comisia analizează rapoartele şi informaţiile primite şi revizuieşte prezenta directivă pentru a stabili dacă domeniul ei de aplicare ar trebui extins pentru a include toate drumurile importante din statele membre, acordându-se o atenţie specială utilizatorilor rutieri vulnerabili .
Aceasta transmite Parlamentului European şi Consiliului un raport corespunzător, precum şi rezultatele revizuirii sale .
Amendamentul
7
Articolul 11a (nou)
Articolul 11a
Obligaţiile statelor membre
Pentru a spori siguranţa drumurilor din Uniunea Europeană care nu fac parte din Reţeaua transeuropeană de transport, statele membre instituie un sistem coerent pentru schimbul celor mai bune practici, care să acopere, printre altele, proiectele existente în materie de siguranţă a infrastructurii rutiere, precum şi tehnologiile verificate în materie de siguranţă rutieră.
Amendamentul
8
Anexa I punctul 1 litera (d)
(d) analiza impactului alternativelor propuse;
(d) analiza impactului alternativelor propuse , ţinând cont de cea mai bună expertiză existentă în domeniul ingineriei siguranţei rutiere şi al telematicii ;
Justification
Safety engineering and telematics can increase the safety of the infrastructure elements of road transport.
The use of ICT (for example Intelligent Transport Systems) has a huge potential to save lives.
Best available know-how should therefore be taken into account when analysing alternatives.
Amendamentul
9
Anexa I punctul 2 litera (da)
(da) eventuala necesitate de a îmbunătăţi sau construi trotuare pentru pietoni sau piste pentru ciclişti;
Amendamentul
10
Anexa III punctul 3 litera (f) liniuţa 10a (nouă)
- utilizarea şi testarea panourilor rutiere inteligente şi sistemele de recepţie care permit transmisia integrată a limitelor de viteză către vehicule.
Justification
Using intelligent road signs for the automatic transmission of speed limits to passing vehicles is a relatively straightforward technology but it can mean a substantial increase in safety.
Amendamentul
11
Anexa III punctul 3 litera (f) liniuţa 10b (nouă)
- instalarea serviciilor de telematică armonizate la nivel operaţional şi de semnalizare pentru drumurile care fac parte din Reţeaua transeuropeană de transport, precum şi instalarea de sisteme inteligente de transport.
Justification
Telematics and the adoption of intelligent transport systems may play a key part in improving the safety of road infrastructure and should therefore be considered as potential corrective measures.
PROCEDURĂ
Titlu
Siguranţa infrastructurii rutiere
Referinţe
COM(2006)0569 - C6-0331/2006 - 2006/0182(COD)
Comisia competentă în fond
TRAN
Aviz emis de către
Data anunţului în plen
ITRE
23.10.2006
Raportor pentru aviz :
Data numirii
Ivo Belet
28.11.2006
Examinare în comisie
26.2.2007
27.3.2007
Data adoptării
27.3.2007
Rezultatul votului final
+:
–:
0:
40
Membri titulari prezenţi la votul final
Jerzy Buzek, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Giles Chichester, Silvia Ciornei, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Den Dover, Lena Ek, Nicole Fontaine, Adam Gierek, András Gyürk, Fiona Hall, Rebecca Harms, Erna Hennicot-Schoepges, Mary Honeyball, Ján Hudacký, Romana Jordan Cizelj, Anne Laperrouze, Angelika Niebler, Reino Paasilinna, Atanas Paparizov, Francisca Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Miloslav Ransdorf, Vladimír Remek, Herbert Reul, Mechtild Rothe, Paul Rübig, Andres Tarand, Britta Thomsen, Radu Ţîrle, Patrizia Toia, Catherine Trautmann, Claude Turmes, Nikolaos Vakalis, Alejo Vidal-Quadras
Membri supleanţi prezenţi la votul final
Alexander Alvaro, Ivo Belet, Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov, Matthias Groote, Satu Hassi, Esko Seppänen
PROCEDURĂ
Titlu
Siguranţa infrastructurii rutiere
Referinţe
COM(2006)0569 - C6-0331/2006 - 2006/0182(COD)
Data prezentării la PE
5.10.2006
Comisia competentă în fond
Data anunţului în plen
TRAN
23.10.2006
Comisia (comisiile) sesizată(e) pentru avizare
Data anunţului în plen
ENVI
23.10.2006
ITRE
23.10.2006
LIBE
23.10.2006
Avize care nu au fost emise
Data deciziei
ENVI
28.11.2006
LIBE
21.5.2007
Raportor(i)
Data numirii
Helmuth Markov
27.11.2006
Examinare în comisie
11.4.2007
4.6.2007
Data adoptării
5.6.2007
Rezultatul votului final
+:
–:
0:
32
7
1
Membri titulari prezenţi la votul final
Robert Atkins, Paolo Costa, Michael Cramer, Luis de Grandes Pascual, Arūnas Degutis, Saïd El Khadraoui, Robert Evans, Emanuel Jardim Fernandes, Georg Jarzembowski, Stanisław Jałowiecki, Timothy Kirkhope, Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, Sepp Kusstatscher, Bogusław Liberadzki, Eva Lichtenberger, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Robert Navarro, Josu Ortuondo Larrea, Willi Piecyk, Luís Queiró, Reinhard Rack, Luca Romagnoli, Gilles Savary, Brian Simpson, Renate Sommer, Dirk Sterckx, Ulrich Stockmann, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Georgios Toussas, Yannick Vaugrenard
Membri supleanţi prezenţi la votul final
Philip Bradbourn, Markus Ferber, Pedro Guerreiro, Zita Gurmai, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Elisabeth Jeggle, Anne E. Jensen, Helmuth Markov, Ari Vatanen, Corien Wortmann-Kool
