{"id":55078,"date":"2015-03-12T10:13:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T10:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=356ff66fefc0d15499a71bed58dbb327"},"modified":"2015-03-12T10:13:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T10:13:41","slug":"statement-to-parliament-eu-transport-council-12-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=55078","title":{"rendered":"Statement to Parliament: EU Transport Council: 12 March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>I will attend the first transport council under the Latvian Presidency (the Presidency) taking place in Brussels on Friday 13 March (2015).<\/p>\n<p>There are only 2 main agenda items for discussion. The first item on the agenda will be a policy debate on the Market Pillar of the Fourth Railway Package. This will cover the proposal to amend Directive 2012\/34\/<abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> establishing a single European railway area, as regards the opening of the market for domestic passenger transport services by rail and the governance of the railway infrastructure. It will also cover the proposal to amend Regulation (EC) No 1370\/2007 concerning the opening of the market for domestic passenger transport services by rail. I welcome this opportunity to press for further liberalisation of the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> single market for rail through the market pillar of the Fourth Railway Package.<\/p>\n<p>The second item on the agenda will be a policy debate on the contribution to <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> competitiveness, growth and jobs through transport policy developments, to discuss the challenges of attracting private investors to transport projects as well as the global competitiveness challenges that the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> transport sector is facing. I welcome the focus in the Commission President\u2019s investment plan on reforms to raise growth prospects across Europe and the emphasis on increasing private sector investment. Structural reforms to complete the single market and to improve the incentives for investment are essential for Europe\u2019s competitiveness and prosperity, and are a longstand\u0131ng pr\u0131or\u0131ty for Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Under any other business, the Presidency will provide information on the forthcoming Third ASEM Transport Ministers\u2019 Meeting in Latvia and the outcome of the Conference on Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems in Riga on 5 and 6 March. The commission will provide information on civil aviation flights over conflict zones, where the UK supports measures to ensure wider understanding of the risks of operating over and into certain areas. The commission will also deliver a presention on the Energy Union. Lastly, the French and German delegations will present views on the ongoing <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> \u2013 Gulf Cooperative Council Aviation dialogue and associated strategies on safeguards for fair competition. By facilitating business-business and people-people links, international air transport benefits our wider economy and we seek, therefore, to minimise barriers to market access such as unfair competition. With this in mind, the government is always keen to engage with our international partners on strategies for addressing such matters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notice of the transport council meeting,13 March 2015, which will debate the Fourth Railway Package and EU competitiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}