Translation of "Combined road and rail tunnel " (English → French) :

6. Calls on the Commission to present at the earliest opportunity the new directive that has already been announced on the harmonisation of minimum safety standards for road and rail tunnels, and undertakes to cooperate fully with the Council and Commission to ensure its rapid adoption and implementation; calls on the Commission to give serious consideration to the recent report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, which proposes banding of tunnels according to their level of safety for the transportation of dangerous substances; ...[+++]

These are intended to create the necessary conditions for guaranteeing users of road and rail tunnels, especially tunnels forming part of trans-European networks, a high level of safety.

In particular, the Commission investigates with UIC, CER (Community of European Railways), UNIFE (European rail supply industry), UIRR (International Union of combined Road-Rail transport companies) and UIP (International Union of Private Wagons) the status and options for the reduction of noise emission from the existing European rail freight wagon fleet, including a third-party assessment of the UIC/UIP/CER Action Programme for Noise Reduction in Freight Traffic.

Fewer lorries, more trains, a shift away from the transport monoculture, more intermodal transport, fewer roads and road tunnels and more rail tunnels, an overall rebalancing of the situation with due regard for freedom of the market but also taking into account the need for guiding parameters, including clear information on the real costs of transport, and consistent pricing, the freeing-up of resources for rail investments, the development of a European structure for the rail networks through the railways packages, safety guarantees ...[+++] provided by the relevant directive on tunnels and by common rules to make road transport safer; lastly, a growing effort to introduce less-pollutant transport systems, and also, I would say, to finish with, the use of systems such as the satellite system, Galileo, to track fleets of lorries.

5. Where a product is taken over by the railways in the Member State of export or another Member State and circulates under the external Community transit procedure or the common transit procedure under a contract of carriage for combined road-rail transport by rail to a destination outside the customs territory of the Community, the customs office competent for or nearest to the rail terminal at which the product is taken over by ...[+++]the railways shall insert one of the following entries under "Remarks" in the section headed "Control of use and/or destination" on the back of the original of the T5 control copy:

Where a consignment of goods being carried by combined road-rail transport under cover of one or more Community transit/common transit documents is accepted by the railways in a rail terminal and is loaded on wagons, the railway authorities shall assume liability for payment of duties and other charges where offences or irregularities occur during the journey by rail, if there is no valid g ...[+++]uarantee in the country where the offence or irregularity has occurred or is deemed to have occurred, and if it is not possible to recover such amounts from the principal.`