European transport policy/ Lisbon strategy and sustainable development

European transport policy/ Lisbon strategy and sustainable development

On 23 July 2009, the Spanish presidency of the European Union wrote to the European Economic and Social Committee, under Article 262 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, requesting an exploratory opinion on the: European transport policy in the framework of the post-2010 Lisbon Strategy and the Sustainable Development Strategy. The Section for Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society, which was responsible for preparing the Committee's work on the subject, adopted its opinion on 24 February 2010. At its 461st plenary session, held on 17 and 18 March 2010 (meeting of 17 March 2010), the European Economic and Social Committee adopted the following opinion by 152 votes to one, with four abstentions.