25. Stresses that a better use of Satellite Navigation Systems would help reduce the administrative burden on transport companies and aid the competent authorities in each Member State in improving the quality of controls, especially those on travelling times and resting periods; considers that new and more effective control systems, such as monitoring transport with the help of satellite positioning systems, would help improve the situation and enable a more transparent implementation of the rules; takes the view that use of these new technologies would also ease the burden on crossborder authorities and ...[+++]organisations;

This solution is not unfair to private motorists because satellite positioning equipment is rapidly becoming more and more common in cars.

Future satellite location techniques, based on the satellite navigation system following the programme “GALILEO”, will make it easier to put road charging systems in place without causing long queues at entry points to the charging zones.

We have already heard how, in the sphere of satellite positioning the European satellite navigation system Galileo, which is currently under construction, will, from 2008 onwards, provide information of superior quality to that provided by the present-day GPS and will be ideally suited to telematics services in road traffic.

5a. Interoperability work on existing toll technologies undertaken in connection with the European electronic toll service must ensure the compatibility and interfacing of systems and equipment with satellite positioning and mobile communication (GSM -GPRS) technologies.

6. Welcomes the agreement reached on the Galileo satellite navigation programme but draws the Commission's attention to the time-frame laid down, given the importance of the Galileo programme for public security, improvements in airspace management and the effective introduction of a single European sky, ground transportation (in particular future applications including the pricing of infrastructure use, speed limits, satellite positioning, etc.) and environmental and regional policy and calls on the industry to develop, as soon as possible, specific services for the use of the Galileo programme ...[+++]in order to fulfil its joint responsibility for the success of the project;