Examples of using Ecopoint system in English and their translations into Finnish
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An ecopoint system should therefore be established for the year 2004.
Secondly, the Commission proposal does not touch the ecopoint system per se.
My dear Georg, the ecopoint system was always, in essence, a compromise.
The ESC also wishes to point to the situation that will arise if new Member States accede before the ecopoint system expires.
Austria does not simply want to keep its ecopoint system well into the distant future.
Establishing an ecopoint system applicable to heavy goods vehicles travelling through Austria for the year 2004.
Mr President, Commissioner,ladies and gentlemen, the ecopoint system was agreed during Austria's accession to the EU.
The question does arise, though, what the future of in-transit traffic through Austriawill be after 2003, when the ecopoint system has disappeared.
The ecopoint system was introduced as a temporary measure to regulate heavy goods traffic through Austria until 31 December 2003.
As I said yesterday,Austria does not want to keep its ecopoint system for ever; what we want is a fair and sustainable solution to Europe's transport problems.
Paragraph 58 of the conclusions of the Laeken EuropeanCouncil of 14 and 15 December 2001 requested that the ecopoint system be extended as a temporary solution.
The proposal means that the ecopoint system can continue throughout 2004, with the option of extending it both in 2005 and 2006.
If general policies cannot guarantee the highestlevels of environmental protection, the Commission should consider an ecopoint system similar to the current Alpine regime.
There must be an ecopoint system- which leads me to the final point- that really works because this, Mr Swoboda, is the problem and this is another point on which I disagree with you.
Article 11(2)(a) of Protocol 9 to the Act of Accession of the Republic of Austria to the European Union4 stipulates that the ecopoint system will lapse on 31 December 2003.
The draft Regulation is aimed at replacing the current“ecopoint system”, laid down by a protocol to the Act on Austria, Finland and Sweden's Accession to the Union and the Commission Regulation 3298/94/EC.
Mr President, while I was on the aeroplane taking me from Bergamo to Strasbourg, I was reading this report in order to decide how to vote,and I read that the ecopoint system is being extended.
The end of Austria's ecopoint system is only acceptable if another kind of protection is brought in for the whole of the Alpine region and not just for Austria, one which has its basis in the Alpine Convention.
As the number of journeys exceeded the reference figure by morethan 8% in 1999, the Commission took steps to implement the safeguard clause and proposed an amendment to the Regulation on the ecopoint system.
The ecopoint system for the Alps, which aims to protect the local environment, sets the unjust local Austrian special position against the right of free movement of goods, and means that I am no champion of the current system. .
Mr President, not only the number and distribution of ecopoints in Austria,but also the ecopoint system itself, lead to a highly-charged discussion with repeated heated clashes between supporters and opponents. This time is no exception.
It will be remembered that Protocol No 9 to Austria's Act of Accession, applicable until 1 January2004 at the latest, contains two mechanisms for restricting transit by lorries through Austria: the ecopoint system and the safeguard clause.
The ESC believes that the Proposal for a Regulation establishing an ecopoint system applicable to heavy goods vehicles travelling through Austria for the year 2004, as put forward by the Commission, is a controversial but nonetheless acceptable proposal.
Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing an ecopoint system applicable to heavy goods vehicles travelling through Austria for the year 2004.
It proposes an ecopoint system for 2004 which is similar to the one currently in force, with the possibility of a further one or two-year extension being made possible if a Community pricing system for infrastructure use is not yet in place.
The Council examined the general problem of the transit ofheavy goods vehicles over the Alps and the proposal for a Regulation establishing an ecopoint system applicable to heavy goods vehicles travelling through Austria for the year 2004.
The ecopoint system, which allows transit through Austria and the objective of which is to reduce the NOx pollution caused by lorries driving through Austria, consists of distribution among all the Member States of a number of ecopoints in accordance with the pollution produced by the above lorries.
The next item is the debate on the report(A5-0019/2003) by Mr Caveri, on behalf of theCommittee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism, on the establishment of an ecopoint system applicable to heavy goods vehicles travelling through Austria for the year 2004 COM(2001) 807- C5-0699/2001- 2001/0310COD.
The ecopoint system should therefore apply only, as was originally intended, to transit through the Alps andnot also to journeys in the rest of Austria; the alternative would be that the ecopoint system would constitute an arbitrary measure, and other Member States would be able to claim the right to impose their own.
As Austria has requested, the application of this regulation and of the ecopoint system has been extended to the whole of the country of Austria, not just the Alpine passes; above all, the option of quotas, decided on at the proposal of the Commission, which has done an excellent job, is the option which comes closest to meeting Austria's demands.