Trans-European Transport Network Coordinators Issue Annual Report
October 8, 2009 // Published as a news service by IHS
The coordinators of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) issued the fourth annual report on Oct. 7, giving details on the status of TEN-T's priority transportation projects in the European Union (EU), both for 2009 and for the whole period of the TEN-T's first four-year mandate (2005-2009).
The report also contained a position paper, providing a series of proposals and recommendations to enable stakeholders in the priority projects to take an active role as the projects are implemented.
Antonio Tajani, European Commission (EC) vice president responsible for transport, congratulated the European coordinators and underlined the usefulness of their work, saying, "I note the great success the European coordinators have achieved for these complicated international cross-border projects."
"This has been particularly important during the extremely difficult circumstances faced by the Member States over the last year in the face of the world economic and financial crisis," Tajani said.
Tajani added, "We now look forward to the work to be achieved over the next four years, particularly in the light of the Trans-European Transport networks policy review."
The TEN -T policy review currently underway will identify upcoming challenges for the TEN-T program and enable added weight to be given to the coordinators' activities. In this regard, an important meeting planned for this year's TEN-T days in Naples on Oct. 21-22 will be devoted to an in-depth discussion between stakeholders on the direction and objectives of future European transport policy.
This conference will be a follow-up to the publication in February 2009 of a green paper on the future of the TEN-T policy. It will set out policy options for the coming decade, taking particular account of targets in the fight against climate change and technological advances in the fields of transport and energy.
The coordinators' activity reports and common position paper are available on the EC's web page, European Coordinators Annual Reports - October 2009.
Source: European Commission (EC).