10.1 to use fully the framework offered by ECMT for co-ordinating any transport issues going beyond the purely national level, and to establish, within ECMT, a coherent European transport policy involving both member and non-member countries of the European Community ;
10.2 to avoid in particular any division of Europe arising in the field of transport out of the European Community's plan to complete its internal market by 1993 ;
10.3 to support ECMT's efforts to expand relations with Central and East European countries, and to integrate the latters' transport system with that of Western Europe, and to enlist also the resources and expertise offered by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe for this purpose ;
10.4 to associate closely, to this end, Central and East European countries with the work of ECMT ;
10.5 to use as a criterion for future policies not only the cost-efficiency of a given mode of transport, but also its compatibility with a clean environment, signifying that economic gain may sometimes have to be sacrificed in order to maximise the social and environmental benefit ;
10.6 to assure the containment of traffic and transport demand through greater rationalisation, avoidance of empty journeys and increased controls to prevent abuse of international subsidy provisions ;
10.7 to engage in genuine, Europe-wide integration of Europe's rail network which, in spite of its great potential, handles less than one-fifth of the goods transported in the ECMT area and which is largely operated on an increasingly outdated, nation-by-nation basis, paying special attention to the development of appropriate East-West rail links ;
10.8 to develop a pan-European approach to transalpine traffic, taking account, by means of special regulations, of the special topographical and ecological situation of the Alpine countries ;
10.9 to assist Alpine countries in their efforts to make transalpine transport as largely rail-bound as possible, through ‘‘combined transport'' or ‘‘piggy-back'' (lorries on trains) ;
10.10 to intensify efforts to connect Europe's major cities by integrated high-speed train links, this being the only long-term remedy against congested roads and airports ;
10.11 to make greater use of Europe's underused rivers, canals and seas, which constitute by far the most energy-efficient means of transport, to undertake the infrastructure investments necessary therefor, and to consider extending ECMT's competence to include also maritime transport ;
10.12 to define overall legislative and fiscal provisions favouring a shift to rail of goods transport ;
10.13 to increase their investments in ‘‘combined transport'', that is to say the increased use of rail and, where applicable, water transport at various stages of road conveyance, and to harmonise all standards relevant to this end, such as the size of containers ;
10.14 to support ECMT in its intensive and longstanding efforts to bring down the number of people killed or injured on the road, in particular by influencing driving behaviour ;
10.15 to entrust ECMT with the task of finding solutions to environmental problems connected with transport and, to this end, to focus on stricter exhaust and noise standards for all motor - and especially diesel - vehicles, low-polluting and low-noise propulsion techniques for road vehicles and the reduction of pollutants in fuel ;
10.16 to ask ECMT to promote the general lowering of speed limits, both within and outside built-up areas, in connection with the consequences for the gravity of accidents, fuel consumption and atmospheric pollution ;
10.17 to achieve a revised version of the ECMT-wide European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles Engaged in International Road Transport (AETR), in the absence of which the rules governing the working conditions of drivers will be different between countries of the European Community and those outside ;
