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Green Paper on the Impact of
Transport on the Environment
– a Community strategy
for sustainable mobility
– The White Paper on the Future Development of the Common Transport Policy:
A global approach to the construction of a Community framework for sustainable
mobility 5 .
The Green Paper presented a versatile assessment of environmental impact
of transport and suggested a strategy to counteract those negative effects. The
aim of that document was to initiate public debate. And the White Paper considered
aiming at reaching the state of sustainable mobility to be the most important
task of the Community transport policy. It was to guarantee optimum functionality
of the common transport market by performing economic and social
tasks of transport and providing users with opportunities to make free choices
of transport mode while respecting safety and environmental protection requirements
6 .
The White Paper on Fair Payment for Infrastructure Use: A phased approach to
a common transport infrastructure charging framework in the EU was published in
1998 7 . The document was preceded by the so called Green Paper of 1995, Towards
Fair and Efficient Pricing in Transport. Policy options for internalising the external
costs of transport in the European Union 8 . The last two Papers reflect the interest
of the EU in external costs of transport and their internalization as a way to
reach the state of sustainable development. The Green Paper emphasises the
significance of using pricing as a tool to reduce external costs.
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The Treaty of Rome
Green Paper Towards fair and
efficient pricing in transport. Policy
options for internalising the
external costs of transport in the
European Union
The White Paper on European
Transport Policy for 2010: time
to decide
Infrastructure Use: A phased
White Paper Fair Payment for
approach to a common transport
infrastructure charging framework
in the EU
Greening Transport Package,
8th July 2008
1957 1992 1995 1998 2001 2006
2008
White Paper The Future
development of the common
transport policy –Aglobal
approach to the construction of
a Community framework for
sustainable mobility
Fig. 56. Timeline of EU programme documents on transport policy
Source: Prepared by the author.
Keep Europe Moving -Sustainable
mobility for our continent. Mid-term
review of the European Commission’s
2001 Transport White Paper.
5 White Paper on the Future Development of the Common Transport Policy: A global approach to the construction
of a Community framework for sustainable mobility, COM(92) 494 final, 2.12.1992.
6 B. Paw³owska, Koszty zewnêtrzne transportu – problem ekonomicznej wyceny. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu
Gdañskiego, Gdañsk 2000, p. 145.
7 White Paper on Fair Payment for Infrastructure Use: A phased approach to a common transport infrastructure
charging framework in the EU, COM(98) 466 final, 1.07. 1998.
8 Green Paper: Towards Fair and Efficient Pricing in Transport. Policy options for internalising the external
costs of transport in the European Union, COM (95)691 final , 20.12.1995.