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SENATE OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
14TH TERM
400
th
RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE
Delivered on the 23
rd
session held on 17
th
April 2024
on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council
amending Council Directive 92/106/EEC as regards a support framework for
intermodal transport of goods and Regulation (EU) 2020/1056 of the European
Parliament and the Council as regards calculation of external costs savings and
generation of aggregated data/Senate Print No. N 101/14, COM(2023) 702/
The Senate
I.
1. Is aware
of the prevailing share of road freight transport in the total volume of
freight transport and of the fact that this share is still increasing;
2. Supports
the efforts to greening freight transport through the increased use of
modes of transport other than road, in particular rail transport, as already
expressed by the Senate in its Resolution No 304 of 29 November 2023 on the
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the
use of railway infrastructure capacity in the single European railway area,
amending Directive 2012/34/EU and repealing Regulation (EU) No. 913/2010;
3. Agrees
that by promoting the competitiveness of intermodal transport, where at
least one transport leg takes place by rail, inland waterways or short sea shipping,
the impact of externalities in freight transport can be reduced through the uptake
of more sustainable freight transport options;
4. Points out
to the conclusions of the European Court of Auditors' Special Report
08 of March 2023, according to which:
- EU rules to promote intermodal transport are outdated or counterproductive
and the European infrastructure network is not yet suitable for intermodal
transport;
- on average, and in the absence of support measures, intermodal freight
transport is 56% more expensive than the road-only alternative;