Hearing of Jacques BARROT (France), Commissioner designate for Transport at EP Committee on Transport and Tourism in Brussels.

Committee on Transport and Tourism

hearing

hearing of Commissioners

BARROT, Jacques (FR)

2004 Commissioners' hearings (T)

Hearing of Jacques BARROT (France), Commissioner designate for Transport: extracts

SOUNDBITE (Original), Jacques BARROT,  Commissioner designate for Transport, addressing the Committee on the completion of the liberalisation of the rail, on developing Transeuropean networks to new neighbours of the EU.

SOUNDBITE (Original), Jacques BARROT, Commissioner designate for Transport, on the need of a strict control of state aids to the air transport sector under the principle: "one time, last time" - On the re-launch of the negotiations with the US on this matter after the elections

SOUNDBITE (Original), Jacques BARROT, Commissioner designate for Transport, on the need of a community framework for infrastructures prizing, on making inland water traffic more fluid, on the respect of safety for maritime transport as a pre-condition for any negotiation with Russia 

SOUNDBITE (Original), Jacques BARROT, Commissioner designate for Transport, on Member States accepting the representation of the EU as such to participate in international bodies of negotiation, "I do not want to be a Commissioner for the increasing of the amount of regulation

 SOUNDBITE (Original), Jacques BARROT, Commissioner designate for Transport, on the fact that safe and environmental infrastructures have a high cost that users have to absorb