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Download or read book European Transport Policy written by . This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to substantial changes in the transport sector, between May 2017 and May 2018 the European Commission (EC) published three 'mobility packages' falling under the major political initiative Europe on the Move. While the first package focused on maintaining the competitiveness of the European transport sector in a socially fair transition towards clean energy and digitalisation, in its second batch of proposals the EC took action to reinforce the EU's global leadership in clean vehicles initiatives. The third and last mobility package under Europe on the Move aimed at ensuring a smooth transition to a mobility system that would be not only clean, connected and automated, but also safe. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has carefully followed all these developments in order to give an exhaustive response from Civil Society to this far-reaching initiative. The EESC's Section for Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society (TEN), and in particular 14 rapporteurs and co-rapporteurs, were actively involved in drafting almost 20 opinions on Europe on the Move, considering all the different aspects of the European Commission ́s proposals. The TEN Section also developed close cooperation with other EU institutions on this initiative, in particular with the European Commissioner for Mobility and Transport, Violeta Bulc, who took part in the EESC Plenary Session in September 2018 dedicated to this topic, as well as with the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN). While the first volume of the EESC's "Europe on the Move" brochure, published in autumn 2018, covers the EESC opinions on the first and second mobility packages, this second volume presents the EESC opinions adopted in response to the EC's third mobility package. These two publications are complemented by a third brochure introducing some additional opinions and thus giving an overview of the positions and views of Civil Society on major, closely-related topics and developments, such as investments under the Connecting Europe Facility, digitalisation, decarbonisation, and gender equality, as well as on specific issues concerning individual modes of transport.