The introduction of car parking charges will severely damage local industry and a fall-off in trade will result in a loss of revenue, forcing already hard-pressed SMEs into bankruptcy and possible closure.

– Madam President, I am increasingly concerned about the way local councils in my constituency in the North West of England are using car parking charges to top up their revenue.

35. Recognises the importance of Council Recommendation 98/376/EC of 4 June 1998 on a parking card for people with disabilities, which states that this card should exist in a standard format and should be recognised by all Member States in order to facilitate the bearers' car use, and observes that a unified EU charter for travellers' rights and obtaining and renewing driving licences and any other permits or documents which may be required to facilitate mobility between Member States are essential for the inclusion of people with disabilities in society across Member States; recognises that innovative forms of free communication tools ...[+++]for the blind and the deaf, such as accessible information services with special regard to online services, are also essential for the full enjoyment of their rights; this includes ‘easy to read’ versions for people with cognitive and intellectual disabilities; calls for the reduction of barriers to the freedom of movement of people with disabilities, via the adoption of a European Mobility Card, based on mutual recognition by Member States of disability cards and disability benefits and entitlements so as to make it easier for people with disabilities to study, work and travel, also using the Open Method of Coordination framework; calls for the creation by the Commission of a more informative website targeting people with disabilities, explaining their rights and providing additional specific information on travelling;

There may be instances when, for example on demurrage, on the surface it may look like demurrage should have covered, say, two days for cars, but there may be some other circumstance that the railway might be willing to recognize was such that there shouldn't be two days of demurrage.

It cost us a lot of money to keep this product in frozen containers overseas, and demurrage and destruction of the product are additional costs.

Railcar demurrage, container detention, missing vessels, overbooking vessels and incurring costs associated with your service providers, adding risk premiums to the fees they charge you, all of that adds to what Mr. Phillips called the bottom-line effect for agriculture.