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On Passenger Rights Background: DG-MOVE launched a study on passenger rights in urban public transport early this year running until September 2012. The contracted consultancy firm Grimaldi E Associati is investigating the state-of-the-art in the field as well as the possible charters and/or service guaranties that public transport systems offer. A questionnaire has been drafted. Thanks to UITP EuroTeam, the information has been circulated. UITP also drafted a response. The questionnaire targeted two sectors: the transport operators and the transport users’ association. EMTA thinks that some key actors have been overlooked in the process and namely the Transport Authorities. The subject of Passenger Rights in Urban Transport is an on-going concern for EMTA who organised in the Spring 2010 in Budapest a hearing with the participation of the European Passenger Federation EPF and the European Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing public services CEEP. The conclusions of the debate have been published and sent to the European Parliament TRAN Committee and the European Commission DG-MOVE in May 2010. EMTA is pleased to share again with DG-MOVE and the Consultancy firm Grimaldi E Associati “The Conclusions after passenger rights hearing15-16 April 2010” (see Annex I) ************ On Revisiting the 4 th railway package with possible impact on Regulation 1370/2007 Background: The European Commission (EC) DG-MOVE organized a Conference on the PSO Regulation 1370/2007 last November 14 2011 presenting the results of a survey conducted by the Consultancy firm DLA-Piper through the years 2010-2011 on the implementation of the Regulation. The survey pointed out several difficulties assorted with remarks and possible ways of solving. Following this Conference, and the conclusions of the survey, and taking advantage of preparing the ground for the revision of the 4th Railway Package tentatively scheduled to be issued in the Autumn 2012 and including several regulatory issues, DG-MOVE is considering including revisiting the PSO 1370/2007 Regulation, and to start with, Article 5.6 (see below) that defines the awarding scheme for railway transport contracts (Article 5.6 concerns regional and suburban trains. Metro and tram contracts are excluded). EMTA is organising a round table during its Spring 2012 General Assembly in Prague 24-25 May with the participation of the DG-MOVE Unit A5 Infringements and Legal matters to debate on the impact of the review of he 4 th Railway package on the implementation of the Regulation 1370/2007. The conclusions of the round table will be drafted and forwarded to the DG-MOVE and the European parliament TRAN Committee. ************ EUROPEAN METROPOLITAN TRANSPORT AUTHORITIES c/o S.T.I.F 41, rue de Châteaudun F-75009 Paris, FRANCE Tel : +33 (0) 1 53 59 21 00 – Fax : + 33 (0) 1 53 59 21 33 – e-mail : contact@emta.com http://www.emta.com 2
On ITS installation of Experts at EC level. Background Persuant to Directive 2010/40/EU and in line with 2009 Action Plan, a new legal framework was adopted on 7 July 2010 to accelerate the deployment of innovative transport technologies. “Under this Directive, The European Commission has to adopt within the next seven years specifications (functional, technical, organisational or services provisions) to address the compatibility, interoperability and continuity of ITS solutions across the EU.” The new European ITS Advisory Group was created on 27 January 2012. The task of the European ITS advisory Group is to advise the Commission on business and technical aspects of the deployment and use of ITS in the European Union. The group is composed of 25 members from relevant ITS services providers, associations of users, transport and facilities operators, manufacturing industry, social partners, professional associations, local authorities and other relevant fora. All members of this group can be found here at : http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/detailGroup.cfm?groupID=2736 However, EMTA shares the point of view of its colleagues from Vienna VOR the Transport Authority when saying “the great majority of the members of the advisory group (20 out of 25) come from the car, road and telecom industries. Positive exceptions are only the cities/regions of Warsaw, Lyon, London, the Swedish transport ministry and the Community of European railways. Intermodality is drastically underrepresented in this group. Yet we believe, that the ITS Advisory Group could bring valuable stimuli for a comprehensive ITS architecture in Europe”. But we think that the group as it has been established will lack this positive effect on inter-modality and EMTA wants to draw DG-MOVE attention on this misfortune and ask how could it be solved? ************ On the review on implementation of Directive 2009/33/EC “Promotion of clean and energy efficient road transport vehicles” With a view to prepare a monitoring report on the above Directive, DG-MOVE has commissioned the consultancy firms AEA and Transport and Environmental Policy Research TEPR to carry out a review on the (so far) early stages of implementation of Directive 2009/33/EC. A questionnaire has been elaborated and sent out to a wide range of stakeholders along with a call for city-case-studies on a volunteering basis. Although the questionnaire enquires some specific topics more related to the industrial sector, there are some answers or comments relevant for transport Authorities. Therefore EMTA is very pleased, thanks to Mr Ian Skinner from TEPR initiative, to share some data collected on the use of various type of fuels in the bus fleets across Europe. See chart Annex II with data from 2009. Hopefully some members of the network will be able to complete the TEPR questionnaire. Besides EMTA is pleased to announce the fore-coming workshop on “Metropolitan regions and their vehicles- how can EMTA network help achieving the EU climate goals?” to be held in Berlin Monday 17 September in Berlin at the kind invitation of the Transport Authority VBB Berlin-Brandenburg. (Draft agenda will be sent by end of June). ************ EUROPEAN METROPOLITAN TRANSPORT AUTHORITIES c/o S.T.I.F 41, rue de Châteaudun F-75009 Paris, FRANCE Tel : +33 (0) 1 53 59 21 00 – Fax : + 33 (0) 1 53 59 21 33 – e-mail : contact@emta.com http://www.emta.com 3
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