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Parliamentary question - E-004695/2014Parliamentary question
E-004695/2014

Transport scoreboard — reduction in disparities regarding the quality of air transport infrastructures

Question for written answer E-004695-14
to the Commission
Rule 117
Silvia-Adriana Ţicău (S&D)

On 10 April 2014, the Commission published for the first time a comparative transport scoreboard for the EU Member States consisting of 22 categories, in most of which the five Member States with the best results and the five weakest are identified. The quality of air transport infrastructures is assessed against the yardstick recommended by the World Economic Forum (Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014), awarding marks from 1 (extremely primitive) to 7 (meeting international standards in terms of size and efficiency). From this it emerges that the five Member States with the best air transport infrastructures are the Netherlands (6.46), Finland (6.22), Germany (6.08), France (6.06) and Spain (6.04), while the weakest are Estonia (4.14), Hungary (3.94), Poland (3.91), Bulgaria (3.92), Romania (3.36) and Slovakia (3.23), the EU28 average being 5.13.

What measures are being envisaged by the Commission to reduce the major disparities between the individual Member States regarding the quality of their air transport infrastructures and, in particular, help the weakest come closer to achieving at least the EU-28 average? Does the Commission have a target date for achievement of this objective?

OJ C 402, 13/11/2014