Text tabled : A7-0084/2011

  Vilja Savisaar-Toomast (ALDE), in writing. – (ET) The report on transport applications of global navigation satellite systems supports and highlights the role and importance of the Commission’s 2010-2013 action plan in this area and its impact on transport. The nine measures in the action plan are immediately and essentially related to transport. It envisages the use and development of global navigation satellite systems in all forms of transport. Of course, this will play a very big role in road and air transport. Two of the measures that are definitely worth highlighting are the facilitation of the creation of a Single European Sky and the creation of applications for intelligent transport systems.

In addition, the use of satellites will provide an opportunity to develop and use a great many different applications. I sincerely hope that the development and putting into practice of the systems, applications and solutions specified in the report goes as planned, and that, already in the next few years, the various solutions will find an application, which will make companies’ and citizens’ lives easier and enhance safety at sea, in the air and on the roads.