Trans-European Transport Network Coordinators present their annual report and a common Position Paper

Date: 4/11/2009

Source: Rapid

The coordinators of the Trans-European Transport Network have presented Vice President Antonio Tajani with their fourth and final report for their first mandate giving a detailed state of play of the priority projects for which they are responsible.

The reports sum up the work carried out over 2008 to 2009 and also the entire four year period covering the first mandate, 2005 to 2009. The reports reflect the coordinators’ own perspectives and analyses and contain a series of proposals and recommendations to enable all stakeholders in the projects to take an active role as the projects move forward towards realisation. The Coordinators have also produced a Position Paper for the Vice President in order to contribute to the debate of the TEN-T Review process that the Commission has launched at the start of their second term.

The position paper addresses a number of issues that were identified during work carried out in the first mandate and makes a number of recommendations, such as:

• Include intermodal nodes in the TEN-T network in order to improve, where necessary with financial support, the ‘intermodality’ of the network
• Urgently tackle the lack of interoperability along many European transport networks and remove main bottlenecks, notably at cross border sections
• Ensure regulatory stability for the market and enforce current European and national legislation.

The position paper can be found on the EC Transport website.

The TEN -T policy review currently under way will identify upcoming challenges for the TEN-T programme and enable added weight to be given to the coordinators’ activities.

Keywords: European Commission, Policy