75. Believes that in times of increasing financial difficulties for numerous Europeans and ongoing austerity policies, Parliament should show an example of restraint by reducing its travel costs; asks the Bureau to create conditions for making savings of 5% in all kind of travel expenditure including delegations of committees and interparliamentary delegations in full respect of the Statute for Members and its implementing measures; believes that a reduction in business flights by Members of Parliament would help to achieve such savings; requests that 15% of the travel appropriations be placed in reserve pending a report by the Secret ...[+++]ary General of Parliament to be delivered to the Bureau and the Committee on Budgets by 31 March 2012; calls for such a report to examine the feasibility of measures to ensure the utmost efficiency of Members' travel with a view to making recommendations for potential budgetary savings by considering all proposals and resolutions which Parliament has already adopted on this question, by presenting proposals to reduce its number of business class flights, encouraging the purchase of economy / flexi-economy class airfares, ensuring a proper treatment of the Frequent Flyer Points and revising the rules of the Members' Registry opening hours, in particular on Fridays; expects that the appropriations for the travels are reduced in 2012 and in the following years till the end of the legislature; suggests that savings in institutional visits have to take into account the primacy of pluralism over proportionality when defining the delegations' composition;

71. Believes that in times of increasing financial difficulties for numerous Europeans and ongoing austerity policies, Parliament should give an example of restraint by reducing its number of all kind of travels; asks the Bureau to create conditions for making savings of 5% in all kind of travel expenditure including delegations of committees and interparliamentary delegations in full respect of the Statute for Members and its implementing measures; requests that 15% of the travel appropriation be placed in reserve pending a report by the Secretary General of the EP to be delivered to the Bureau and the Committee on Budgets by 31 March ...[+++]; calls for such a report to examine the feasibility of measures to ensure the utmost efficiency of Members’ travel with a view to making recommendations for potential budgetary savings by considering all proposals and resolutions which the Parliament has already adopted on this question; expects that the appropriations for the travels are reduced in 2012 till the end of the legislature; suggests that savings in the institutional visits have to take into account the primacy of pluralism over the proportionality when defining the delegations composition;

We can ensure that they integrate all modes of transport: soft transport, public transport, water transport – Mr Blokland is right – and rail transport.

The movement of the carrier of machinery serving fixed landings must be rigidly guided to and at the landings.

We have to be able to do both things – to cooperate so that avian flu does not spread, and ensure that people can move, workers can move, and progress can be made, and I think that is much more important.

We have to be able to do both things – to cooperate so that avian flu does not spread, and ensure that people can move, workers can move, and progress can be made, and I think that is much more important.