Mr. Scott. I think if we're trying to articulate the objectives in a general statement in advance, one could read that statement in terms of the pursuit of particular economic, competitive, efficient.and competing against those efficiency-type objectives would be safe and sustainable.

Preventing and resolving violent conflict and addressing fragile states are part of the EU's efforts to reduce insecurity and eradicate poverty through strengthening good governance and the rule of law in third countries; finding solutions to existing problems; thus helping to achieve the commitments of the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals, sustainable development and global security and to implement the EU's Development Policy Statement "The European Consensus on Development", including the security objectives of the EU as set ou ...[+++]t in the European Security Strategy.

In practical terms, that means a safe transportation system where everyone involved works together on the regulations that impose rules focused on safety results and are designed, where appropriate, to give industry the flexibility to be innovative in meeting those safety outcomes.

(26) Since the objectives of the proposed action, namely to coordinate activities in the Member States to regulate and supervise safety and to investigate accidents and to establish at Community level common safety targets, common safety methods, common safety indicators and common requirements of safety certificates, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale of the action, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.

regarding the draft Directive on safety and in particular on the issue of notification procedures for new national safety rules which require a higher safety level than the Common Safety Targets (CST):

The proposal for a directive on railway safety requires infrastructure managers and railway undertakings to develop their safety management system in such a way that the railway system can at least attain the Common Safety Objectives, comply with national safety rules and with the safety requirements specified in the TSIs, and that the relevant elements of the Common Safety Methods are applied.