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Opinion number:
CDR-2437-2025
Status:
Usvojeno
Objective
To emphasise the consequences of transport poverty for territorial cohesion and regional competitiveness.
To call for investments under the Social Climate Fund's national climate plans to support structural measures in line with the sustainability and modal shift objectives set out in the EU's Smart and Sustainable Mobility Strategy.
To emphasise the significant, cumulative shortfall in public transport financing, particularly in order to meet the green transition objectives defined at EU level, and the resulting challenges for LRAs.
To highlight the important contribution of Cohesion policy to supporting local and regional public transport and the importance of maintaining this place-based delivery framework for timely implementation of investments in future.
To call for investments under the Social Climate Fund's national climate plans to support structural measures in line with the sustainability and modal shift objectives set out in the EU's Smart and Sustainable Mobility Strategy.
To emphasise the significant, cumulative shortfall in public transport financing, particularly in order to meet the green transition objectives defined at EU level, and the resulting challenges for LRAs.
To highlight the important contribution of Cohesion policy to supporting local and regional public transport and the importance of maintaining this place-based delivery framework for timely implementation of investments in future.
Essential points
THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS (CoR)
- notes that transport poverty in all its dimensions is increasingly prevalent in the regions, in particular in the more disadvantaged areas and cities of the European Union;
- highlights the commitment of local and regional authorities to achieving the EU’s transition objectives on mobility and the decarbonisation of the transport sector; points out that the recurring lack of budgetary resources has unfortunately compelled certain local and regional authorities to make difficult decisions between maintaining the frequency of public transport services and investing in the decarbonisation of fleets;
- welcomes the European Commission’s recent recommendations, in particular that the regulation establishing a Social Climate Fund makes involvement of local and regional authorities in drawing up national plans mandatory and, more generally, strengthens their role in developing, implementing and monitoring effective solutions to tackle transport poverty;
- stresses the need to develop measures which are likely to make a tangible difference to the provision of public transport services on the ground in the short-term, in addition to serving the long-term objectives, with particular attention given to vulnerable groups, especially those for whom daily commuting is essential;
- notes that cohesion policy provides a ‘ready-to-use’ framework implementing place-based solutions and recommends that Member States make use of the possibility to reallocate 15% of their national resources from the Social Climate Fund to cohesion policy, thus facilitating the rapid deployment of local investments to alleviate transport poverty;
- draws attention to the link between transport poverty and the depopulation of peripheral rural areas, and supports strengthening the PSO framework and developing a European action plan for quality services of general interest;
- highlights the importance of creating synergies with horizontal programmes such as national anti-poverty strategies, and calls for transport poverty to be addressed, inter alia, in the forthcoming EU Anti-Poverty Strategy and in the EU Affordable Housing Plan.