We strive for a sustainable European Transport Policy - this means mobility of citizens and goods taking into account the aims of the European environmental and energy policies...

PRESS RELEASES

09/07/2008	Clarity at last for air fares. Timothy Kirkope MEP
25/06/2008	Social dimension of transport: modal shift hits the poor hardest. Ari Vatanen MEP
05/06/2008	Clearer and simpler rules for EU-wide bus and coach transport. Mathieu Grosch MEP
21/05/2008	International transport: revised rules for market access and access to the profession of transport operator. Mathieu Grosch MEP
20/05/2008	First Annual Celebration of the European Maritime Day. Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou MEP

EUROPEAN TRANSPORT POLICY WITH A BROADER PERSPECTIVE

Since the Treaty of Amsterdam came into force on 1 March 1999, the European Parliament has been an equal partner with the Council of Ministers in the co-decision procedure, and has thus been able to play a major role in shaping European legislation.

The European Parliament is in broad agreement with the Council of Ministers, as the co-legislator, and the Commission, as the driving force and guardian of the Treaties, on the objectives of a common transport policy...

UPCOMING EVENTS

Hearing of Commissioner-designate Antonio Tajani (former EPP-ED MEP) will take place in the Committee on Transport and Tourism on 16th June. Georg Jarzembowski MEP (Germany), Gabriele Albertini MEP (Italy), Luís Queiró MEP (Portugal), Reinhard Rack MEP (Austria), Christine de Veyrac MEP (France), Timothy Kirkhope MEP (United Kingdom) and Corien Wortmann-Kool MEP (The Netherlands) will raise the questions on behalf of the EPP-ED Group.

Luís Queiró MEP (EPP-ED, Portugal) has been recently appointed Rapporteur on Agenda for Sustainable Future in General and Business Aviation.

PAST EVENTS

		Herbicides on Railway Tracks An EPP-ED conference on the herbicides used around railway tracks toos place in the European Parliament on 12 June...
		Urban mobility The role the European Union should play in questions of urban transport as well as the importance of an overall, integrated European concept of urban transport are the issues stressed in a report by Reinhard Rack MEP (Austria) on urban mobility was voted on Thursday 29 May in the Transport and Tourism Committee...