SME Chamber

Future of Transport – EP report adopted at plenary

The Commission plans to publish its White Paper on the Future of Transport in December 2010. It will outline its vision for the next decade and contain specific actions on infrastructure and bottlenecks. To feed into this work, the Transport Committee of the European Parliament adopted in June a report on a sustainable future for transport by rapporteur MEP Mathieu Grosch (EPP, Belgium). This report has been adopted at plenary on the 6th of July by the full Parliament (559 votes in favour). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It stresses that decarbonising transport is one of the main challenges of future EU transport policy, as has been expressed by the President of the Commission Mr. Barroso, in the Political Guidelines for the Next Commission.

Key factors to achieve a more sustainable transport will be amongst others to:

  • develop co-modal solutions by improving infrastructure;
  • support the internalisation of external costs to reduce exhaust gases, noise and bottlenecks, providing that all modes of transport are covered and that the revenue is used to improve infrastructure sustainability;
  • complete the liberalisation of cabotage transport to reduce empty mileage;
  • create an agency for road transport to improve road safety and remove single market barriers,
  • support research and development, and
  • reduce the administrative burden in the field of transport documents.

 

 

 

What we can do for you

EMPLOYMENT & CONSUMER LAW

INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE

PRIORITY ACCESS

LOCAL ISSUES & LEGISLATION

NETWORKING EVENTS

LEGAL ADVICE

EU FUNDS AND SCHEMES

INFORMATION SESSIONS, MASTERCLASSES AND CONFERENCES

BECOME A MEMBER

The Malta Chamber of SMEs represents over 7,000 members from over 90 different sectors which in their majority are either small or medium sized companies, and such issues like the one we're experiencing right now, it's important to be united. Malta Chamber of SMEs offers a number of different services tailored to its members' individual requirements' and necessities. These range from general services offered to all members to more individual & bespoke services catered for specific requirements.

A membership with Malta Chamber of SMEs will guarantee that you are constantly updated and informed with different opportunities which will directly benefit your business and help you grow. It also entails you to a number of services which in their majority are free of charge and offered exclusively to its members (in their majority all free of charge).