-as some regulatory measures may be necessary to ensure GNSS added value for road safety (e.g. monitoring the transport of dangerous goods, or for long-range public transport) and freight transport efficiency, or for improved traffic management, as a complement the Commission will examine the expediency of proposing Directives on GNSS-based monitoring of long-range coaches, and on GNSS-based multimodal logistics,

The distance factor shall be obtained by dividing by one hundred the number of kilometres flown in the great circle distance between the entry and the exit point of the charging zones, according to the latest known flight plan filed by the aircraft concerned for air traffic flow purposes.

Such measurements should be made in a manner consistent with those of the cooperative programme for monitoring and evaluation of the long range transmission of air pollutants in Europe (EMEP) set up under the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution approved by Council Decision 81/462/EEC of 11 June 1981

16. Notes that the legislative framework set out in Directive 97/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 1997 on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts - Statement by the Council and the Parliament re Article 6(1) - Statement by the Commission re Article 3(1) first indent already provides consumers purchasing at a distance with rights to a refund in the event of non-authorised transactions or non-delivery of the goods/services purchased; calls on the ...[+++] Commission to assess how successful this framework has been in building consumer confidence in e-commerce, how existing mechanisms (including charge-back between card-issuer and merchant) are operating and how refund mechanisms (with legislative or non-legislative backing) should be incorporated into future on-line payment systems, bearing in mind that credit or charge cards may not be the predominant medium; notes the importance of encouraging measures to tackle fraud including the development of new authentication and identification techniques; further calls on the Commission to bring forward proposals to ensure a single area for payment cards and to continue to promote the measures needed to facilitate the cross-border use of electronic money;

25. Considers that short sea shipping is an environmentally friendly and safe alternative to road transport and therefore believes it is essential to increase the proportion of freight transport accounted for by short sea shipping; calls on the national governments to take the requisite measures to encourage the use of short sea shipping, for instance by providing investment support to short sea shipping projects which can demonstrate the importance of short sea shipping in effective intermodal transport systems ...[+++]and by removing all barriers; calls on the Commission to grant start-up aid from the existing European funds to promote short sea shipping and to frame the planned combined transport support measures in such a way that they can apply easily to short sea shipping;

12. Believes that short sea shipping is an environment friendly and safe alternative to road transport and therefore that an increase in the proportion of goods transported by short sea shipping is essential; calls on national governments to introduce effective measures to increase the proportion of goods carried by short sea shipping, including investment aid to launch short sea shipping projects demonstrating the contribution which this transport mode can make to the overall efficiency of multimodal transport systems and the removal of all kinds of barriers; calls on the Commission also to promote short sea activities by providing so ...[+++]me launching aid from the already existing European funds and to organise schemes to assist combined transport in such a way as to enable them to be applied without difficulties to short sea shipping;