Moretti is confirmed for the third time president of the association European railroads CER



Today to Brussels Mauro Moretti, managing director of the group Italian Railroads of the State, is confirmed president of the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER). Moretti is the first president of the association European railroads to being reconfirmed for three consecutive times.

Moretti has thanked the shareholders' meeting for the renewed confidence and has indicated the main objectives of its mandate to realize in next the two years. Between these, the completion of internal the railway market to the European Union. The barriers and the asymmetries between the domestic markets - it has explained - must continue to being eliminated and must actively support the "common Area of proposed European transport" from Siim Kallas. With respect to the Picture Pluriennale Financial 2014-2020, to the review of the nets IT TRY and to the Structural Bottoms, Moretti has found that the completion of the financial nets TRIES and the support for the railway projects is two fundamental elements in order to promote politics of the transports modern and credible. About the balance financial, Moretti it has emphasized that an adequate compensation for the obligations of public service, in many not sufficiently which rewarded Countries, and for infrastructure railway adequate financings are points that would have to be reconsidered in new the fourth railway package.

Sul topic of politics of the transports sustainable, the president of the CER has observed that the railway field has already for a long time been engaged voluntarily to reduce of 30% the emissions of co2 for unit transported within 2020 and that the railway suppliers therefore would have to engage themselves equally to offer produced efficient that they afford to reach such objective. However the modal shift it could be the greater contribution to the reduction of co2 and the internalizzazione of the external costs.

Moretti has emphasized at last Alta Velocità which key element to the aim to continue to improve the performance of the railway field. To Rome - it has remembered - the railway field has signed the Railway declaration 2020 (june 2010) in which there is the demand for the EU commission of a European High Speed Masterplan. The idea of European railway net to high speed is very received by the EU commission that has introduced it in new White Paper. The FS Italian, with the railway field - it has concluded - will continue to put and to promote all the actions necessary to the aim to develop an effective European net to high speed; a distance, already undertaken with the vices president of the EU commission, Antonio Tajani and Jacques Barrot, not realizable without the confidence and the excellent support of the executive presided by Josè Manuel Barroso and the commissioner to Siim Kallas Transports.