European Parliament
Jean-Luc Bennahmias  (ALDE ),
in writing.
(FR)
Last November, in the vote at first reading, I voted against this recast of the railway package. I still believe that, while progress has been made in terms of transparency, strengthened cooperation between national authorities and multi-year programming of infrastructure projects, these are not enough for me to support this second reading. My main reason for not supporting this package is the commitment it makes to continuing down the path of liberalisation, particularly the repeated, sustained commitment to opening up passenger transport to competition. In this package, the Commission and Parliament have also committed themselves to continuing with plans to separate infrastructure managers and transport services, while in our respective countries, particularly in France, we have seen that this separation causes many problems, and that we ought to go back to the drawing board in order, perhaps, to envisage something other than ever increasing liberalisation.

