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DHL presents empirical cost comparisons showing supplier-driven SAF overpricing and calls for an EU-wide, tradable ticket-based book-and-claim with strict anti–double counting, while Munich Airport backs book-and-claim to scale SAF and protect connectivity, stressing robust sustainability rules, a central register and alignment with ETS/RefuelEU/RED to avoid perverse incentives.
Chair frames the TRAN hearing on book-and-claim within RefuelEU Aviation, then IATA details the SAF price gap, supplier market power at airports, and argues for an EU book-and-claim system integrated with the Union Database and ETS/RefuelEU to enable tradable SAF certificates and direct airline–producer offtakes.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
The chair opens the public hearing on book-and-claim for sustainable aviation fuels under ReFuelEU, then airline and logistics representatives (IATA, DHL) present data on SAF price gaps, existing book-and-claim schemes, regulatory asks for an EU certificate market, and design elements needed for a credible, cost-effective EU-wide system linked to ETS and corporate reporting.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
The committee handles roll-call requests and votes on compromise and individual amendments to the opinion on the European Competitiveness Fund, ultimately rejecting the opinion, then holds a separate roll-call vote to confirm Parliament’s support for the Council’s first-reading position on a previously agreed file.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
Members vote on Eurovignette compromise and individual amendments, manage a contested roll-call incident, and subsequently adopt the remaining amendments, final report and negotiation mandate by roll call, with majorities announced and the rapporteur congratulated.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
TRAN chair opens the meeting, adopts agenda and minutes, tests the voting system, then leads detailed votes on amendments to the roadworthiness and roadside inspection directives, culminating in adoption of the report and negotiation mandate.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
The committee reports back on its mission to Poland, with the Chair and MEPs describing meetings on the CPK/Port Polska hub, high‑speed rail and multimodal infrastructure, the scale of EU funding, and links to military mobility, security, sovereignty and advanced defence‑related transport technologies.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
The Chair and Commission present the state of the EU–Switzerland Land Transport Agreement and Switzerland’s unilateral wagon‑check rules after the Gotthard accident, with MEPs questioning legal compatibility, interoperability, Alpine freight impacts and ERA’s role, and the Commission outlining limits of action, the institutional framework and next steps in the joint committee.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
The TRAN committee hears the Commission’s midterm assessment of the EU road safety policy framework, covering trends, key risk factors, recent and planned legislation, funding and governance challenges, followed by a detailed Q&A with MEPs on speed management, infrastructure, micromobility, enforcement and the possible creation of an EU road safety body.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
The ERTMS Coordinator calls for stronger centralisation, standardisation and political ownership of ERTMS, invites Parliament to champion the file and update its resolution, and the Chair then closes the morning sitting while outlining the afternoon TRAN/SEDE meeting on military mobility.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
The North Sea–Baltic and North Sea–Mediterranean Coordinators respond on Rail Baltica, gauge change in the Baltics and Finland, port and infrastructure security, causes of cross-border delays and cost overruns, the underused Swiss rail network, and climate-resilient inland waterways facing chronic underfunding.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
Group coordinators and other MEPs question the financing and prioritisation of military mobility and dual-use TEN-T projects, cross-border and inland waterway challenges, CEF adequacy, modal shift from road to rail, and uneven, costly ERTMS deployment with laggard Member States.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
The Chair and Johan Danielsson introduce the TEN-T agenda item and the legal-political mandate of European coordinators, followed by detailed presentations on the North Sea–Baltic and North Sea–Mediterranean Corridors and the horizontal ERTMS priority, covering geopolitical context, financing, decarbonisation, bottlenecks and deployment gaps.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the TRAN meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, then leads the full voting sequence on the vehicle registration documents proposal, including amendment votes, final roll-call adoption and approval of the negotiating mandate.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
The Chair thanks the ECA representatives and participants, formally closes the meeting, and informs members that the next TRAN Committee meeting will be held on 8 April while the originally scheduled 9 April meeting is cancelled.
Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
Responding further, the ECA clarifies that inflation was excluded from its cost analysis and attributes overruns and delays to COVID‑19, the war in Ukraine, evolving regulation and unforeseen technical/geological challenges; she acknowledges only the Spanish side of the Basque case was audited, outlines how the new TEN‑T Regulation should improve joint planning and inclusion of access lines, notes it applies only to new projects, and states the Court has not issued an opinion on the revised CEF.
Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
The ECA representative identifies recurring causes of long delays in cross-border megaprojects, weak cost‑benefit analysis, insufficient stakeholder involvement and scope changes, drawing comparisons with practices in Switzerland and others; she details Rail Baltica’s issues such as lack of project maturity, design changes and incomplete design studies, references a joint report by Baltic national audit institutions, and notes that the ECA works on the basis of the project as approved by the Commission.
Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
The Commission explains that COVID-19 and Russia’s war against Ukraine have directly affected projects (including Rail Baltica) through input shortages and workforce disruption, while stressing that most audited projects show stable or reduced costs, reflecting generally sound project management; it highlights follow-up actions since the 2020 report, defends the 2030 TEN-T core deadline as a mobilising tool, and underscores CEF as an essential and hoped‑to‑be‑reinforced EU incentive for cross‑border links in the next MFF.
Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
The Chair notes the absence of several groups, opens the floor and then raises his own questions on how to align national priorities with the EU-wide TEN-T network, how CEF (mis‑transcribed as ZEF) cross-border financing can be steered to support the whole network, and how the Commission has followed up ECA recommendations on holistic ex‑ante analysis for megaprojects, including via the current CEF revision.
Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
A member questions why major cross-border projects like Rail Baltica have become significantly more expensive and delayed, asking the ECA whether it assessed non‑inflationary causes, differences between member states’ implementation, the impact of military mobility requirements (speed, axle load), and what concrete solutions and funding options it recommends.
After closing the sovereignty hearing, the committee turns to the European Court of Auditors’ special report on TEN‑T cross‑border mega‑projects, highlighting major cost increases, long delays and likely failure to meet the 2030 core‑network deadline. MEPs and the Commission debate causes such as weak ex‑ante assessments, national priorities and external shocks, while the ECA explains how revised TEN‑T rules and better governance may improve future projects before the chair closes the exchange and adjourns the meeting.
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Industry representatives for airports and rail detail security, digitalisation and supplier‑dependence challenges, calling for realistic threat prioritisation, EU support for security technologies and clarity on high‑risk vendors within long‑lived infrastructure. MEPs probe ownership rules, Huawei’s role in rail networks and SME participation, while speakers argue for pragmatic, architecture‑based ‘zero‑trust’ approaches rather than immediate supplier bans given legacy systems and cost constraints.
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The acting chair opens the TRAN hearing on sovereignty of EU transport infrastructure, then experts from ENISA and academia outline cyber‑security risks and geopolitical dependencies, notably around Chinese involvement in EU ports. MEPs question the tools, funding and regulatory approaches to harden critical infrastructure, manage technology dependencies and prepare for potential Chinese leverage over EU seaports, with ENISA and the China expert detailing risk‑management options and limits to decoupling.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
Closing remarks on the TRAN committee’s transport‑focused amendments to the European Competitiveness Fund opinion, followed by practical information on the replacement of the Chair for the afternoon session and acknowledgment of coordinators and vice‑presidents involved.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
Rapporteur and MEPs set out transport‑related priorities for the ECF, including links with CEF and TEN‑T, clean and zero‑emission mobility, dual‑use and military mobility, technological neutrality, nuclear and fossil‑fuel concerns, budget constraints, and the Commission clarifies the fund’s design, governance and synergies.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
Introduction and political debate on the limited Eurovignette revision, focusing on whether and how to include trailers in CO2‑differentiated tolling, technical feasibility, alignment with HDV CO2 standards, and divergent positions between rapporteur, groups and Commission on timing, scope and incentives.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
Chair opens the TRAN meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and conducts the full morning voting sequence on air transport, tourism, the AI omnibus opinion, and pilot projects/preparatory actions for the future EU budget.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
Rapporteur, shadows and other MEPs debate the level of EU harmonisation on periodic tests, including older vehicles, trailers and motorcycles, use of remote sensing and advanced emissions checks, delegated acts and cost impacts, with the Commission defending stricter testing for safety and environmental reasons before the rapporteur outlines compromise avenues and the Chair closes the meeting.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
In the roadworthiness package, the rapporteur and shadows set priorities for harmonising and digitalising vehicle registration while managing data protection, administrative burden and paper access, and the Commission argues for ambitious mobile certificates, mutual recognition and alignment with end‑of‑life vehicle rules while keeping bicycle registration optional.
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Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting
The Commission presents its 2040 vision for a pan‑European high‑speed rail network, associated cost and financing strategy, interoperability and industrial policy measures, followed by MEP questions on cohesion, military mobility, accessibility, affordability, competition and financing gaps and a detailed Commission reply on network coverage, funding models, climate resilience, military mobility and industrial scale‑up.
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