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The Regional Transport Action Plan for the Mediterranean Region 2007-2013 (RTAP) has been unanimously endorsed by the Euro-Mediterranean Ministers of Transport during the High Level Conference on “Extension of the Major Trans-European Axes to the Mediterranean Region”: Lisbon, 03 December 2007. In Action n° 13, the RTAP asks for the creation of a Working Group on Infrastructure and Regulatory Issues. This Working Group will operate under the guidance of the Euro-Mediterranean Transport Forum.

Schedule:

• 2nd Meeting: Working Group «Infrastructure and Land Transport Regulatory Issues »
  16/07/2008 - Brussels - Belgium
• 1st Meeting: Working Group « Infrastructure and Regulatory Issues »
  12-13/11/2007 - Brussels - Belgium

2nd Meeting : Working Group «Infrastructure and Land Transport Regulatory Issues »

Venue: Brussels - Belgium
Date: 16/07/2008 (1 day)

Key documents:
Agenda (FR, 25Kb)
List of participants (29Kb)
Conclusions (FR, 12Kb)

Summary:

The last meeting of the Working Group for Infrastructure and Land Transport Regulatory Issues took place in Brussels on 16th July 2008.

It was the first meeting of the Group following the Paris Summit for the Mediterranean Union of 13th July 2008. The main topic of the discussion was the monitoring of the implementation of the Regional Transport Action Plan (RTAP) and the next steps toward fulfilling the aims of the RTAP. 

The Group also agreed that two task forces will deal with regulatory issues of road and rail transport. The first meeting of the task forces will take place on 27th and 28th October 2008 in Vienna, Austria. Read the full conclusions of the meeting.

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Summary of Criteria for Prioritising Projects (117Ko, FR)
Saki Aciman Behar, EuroMed Transport Project – Main Contract (CETMO)

 
Definition of a Euro-Mediterranean Transport Network (142Ko, FR)
Saki Aciman Behar, EuroMed Transport Project – Main Contract (CETMO)

 
Overview of the process for updating Annex A of the RTAP (335Ko, FR)
Saki Aciman Behar, EuroMed Transport Project – Main Contract (CETMO)
 

Micro Study on Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and PPP Workshop (62Ko)
Stefan Enzelberger, EuroMed Transport Project – Main Contract

Neighbourhood Investment Facility (NIF) (137Ko)
M. Jorge De La Caballeria, EuropeAid Co-operation Office

Finance Conference, 13th and 14th October 2008 (58Ko)
Stefan Enzelberger, EuroMed Transport Project – Main Contract

Regional Transport Action Plan – Task Forces (152Ko)
Michael Schmidt, EuroMed Transport Project – Main Contract (ICCR)
 
MoS Pilot Projects (144Ko)
Marc Abeille, Motorways of the Sea Project

1st Meeting : Working Group « Infrastructure and Regulatory Issues »

Venue: Brussels, Belgium
Date: 12-13/11/2007

Key documents:

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In the 1999-2002 period, the Euromed Transport Forum decided to establish 5 working groups (WGs) to address a number of specialised transport issues:

WG Air Transport
 
WG GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System EGNOS / Galileo)

WG Maritime Transport 
      WG Maritime Policy, Ports and Short Sea Shipping (sub-group)
      WG Maritime Safety (sub-group)

WG Network and Infrastructure

WG Research and Development (no longer operational)

The WG meetings are technical meetings which bring together officials from each of the EU and MEDA countries specialised in the sectors and issues at stake, as well designated experts and officials from the European Commission and other relevant organisations.

The WG meetings are organised by the European Commission who acts as secretariat for the Forum and its WGs. Attendance is by invitation only.

The main purposes of the WG meetings are:

• to examine progress and future planning on specific transport issues;
• to enable discussions on these issues during the project implementation phase.