Text tabled : A6-0014/2008

  Timothy Kirkhope (PPE-DE), in writing. − British Conservative MEPs voted in favour of Mr Albertini’s own-initiative report on Sustainable European Transport on the basis that it provides a clear policy framework that will increase efficiency and tackle transport’s burgeoning impact on climate change. However, Conservatives remain concerned that the report’s call for further Commission proposals on internalising external costs should not begin until the impact assessment is fully completed, and the Parliament has properly debated the issue. We are also keen to see that this policy option, if it is introduced, should be applied uniformly across all transport modes, so that no market distortion takes place.