the UIRR exhorts Brussels and the States EU to make more very for the performance of White Paper on the transports



In sight of the intermediate review by the EU commission of White Paper on the transports of the EU, that 2011 are published in March ( on 28 March 2011), the International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport (UIRR) has proposed own contribution to the re-examination of the plan of participation of the European Union in the field of the transports, plan that - second the UIRR - anticipates objectives for whose attainment up to now has been made little: "he is obvious - it has emphasized the association that represents the operators of the arranged transport road-track - that they must be put into effect modifications if truly agrees to reach the final objectives".

Evidencing that the arranged transport offers the more obvious solution for the attainment of the final objectives of European politics on the transports in sustainability matter, the association has found the necessity to make of energy efficiency of the various modalities of transport goods the main indicator key of the performances and to do so as that the problematic daily of the field of the transports, are from the point of view of the investments that of the daily operating activities, come explicitly held at a distance from the decisional motivations of politics.

The UIRR considers that "the horizontal solutions must be taken advantage of in emphasized way absolutely more from the politicians if it agrees to ahead complete a meaningful step towards the objective shared from all of the sustainability. This - second the association - would demand a separation from a compartimentata vertical mentality based on which every modality of transport must independently resolve its problems so as - it has specified the UIRR - it would be necessary a modification of the indicators of the rates and the general strengthening of the European only market of the transports in order to allow a fair competition".

For how much it concerns to the railroads, the UIRR has observed that "the EU commission must promote an initiative in order to reach a voluntary harmonization of contracts of access to the railway lines and of the relative principles to the rights of access to railway infrastructures to the aim to realize the only European railway space". According to the association, an analogous action would be necessary also in order to establish homogenous operating practical standards and with the partner of east Europe, beginning from the near nations until China.

Moreover the UIRR has exhorted the States of the European Union to make more very regarding completed how much in last the five years. For the association, it is necessary that they are adopted and publicly introduced national plans of politics of the transports, than this is put into effect in conformity to a common methodology and that their performance comes systematically monitored and reported transparently from the EU commission.