European Union Strategy for the Danube Region

1. 1.b Mobility and MultimodalityRail, road and air transport1st Steering Group meetingPA1b coordinationMiodrag Poledica, PAC Serbia Franc Žepič, PAC SloveniaLjubljana, 22 June 2011 European Union Strategy for the Danube Region

2. Contents • Governance Structure • Funding • Communication and Action Plan • Targets • Actions • Projects • Work Program • Key Planned Activities • Next Steps • Tentative Timetable • Conclusion and Contacts

3. Governance Structure Policy Coordination • Council + Commission + HLG / NCPs • Joint platform for coordination (Transport ministers) Implementation • PAC(Steering Group = 2 PAC + 12 members + CION) - poss. WG, poss. Thematic Seminars • Annual Forum - all stakeholders (transport) • Interact Lab Group - Programmes

4. Funding (Sources of financing) • National Budgets • EU (Cohesion Fund, Structural funds (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and European Social Fund (ESF)), TEN-T, INTERREG frameworks, Marco Polo II Programme, IPA, ENPI) • The Banks (EIB, EBRD, WB) • Alternative (e.g. PPP, bonds) Key task: Mobilisation and aligning of existing funds.

5. Communication and Action Plan • Communication (COM(2010) 715 final) Pillar (1): To improve mobility and multimodality - major challenge: mobility - examples of targets - stresses: political supportto current initiatives, consistencywith EU legislation and policies, importanceof the Region for EU neighbours. • Action Plan (SEC(2010) 1489 final) - objective: sustainable mobility, - describes actions and examples of projects

6. Targets: Targets as examples could be(COM(2010) 715 final): • PA1a • Increase the cargo transport on the river by 20% by 2020 compared to 2010; • Remove existing navigability bottlenecks on the river so as to accommodate type VIb vessels all year round by 2015; • PA1b • Improved travel times for competitive railway passenger connections between major cities; • Implementation of the 4 Rail Freight Corridors crossing the Danube Region as planned within 3 or 5 years; • Development of efficient multimodal terminals at Danube river ports to connect inland waterways with rail and road transport by 2020; • Achievement of national targets based on the Europe 2020 climate and energy targets;

7. Targets (PA1b SG – proposal): Possible division: • Short term • Stock taking (inventory of projects), • Better cooperation - Common transport policy for the Region • Removal of barriers for better mobility – shortening travel time, • Medium term • Plan for or removal of major bottlenecks • Study of high speed train network and missing motorway links • Long term • Removal of all bottlenecks (rail, road, airports) • At least two airport hubs in Eastern part of the region

8. Action (1) - “To bring to completion the TEN-T (rail and road) Priority Projects crossing the Danube Region, overcoming the difficulties and the bottlenecks including environmental, economic and political, particularly in the cross-border sections”. Example of project:“To construct two new bridges over the Danube”. The two bridges would be built on the stretch of the Danube between Romania and Bulgaria. One of the bridges would link Bechet (RO) with Oriahovo (BG) while the other one would connect Calarasi (RO) with Silistra (BG). (Lead: Bulgaria and Romania; Financing: national budget, TEN-T, banks) Actions - Action Plan (SEC(2010) 1489 final)

9. Action Plan Action (2)- “To implement the Rail Freight Corridors forming part of the European rail network for competitive freight (Reg. 913/2010)”. ___________________________________ Article 8 Governance of freight corridors • 1. For each freight corridor, Member States concerned shall establish an executive board responsible for defining the general objectives of the freight corridor, supervising and taking the measures as expressly provided for in paragraph 7 of this Article, and in Articles 9 and 11, Article 14(1) and Article 22. The executive board shall be composed of representatives of the authorities of the Member States concerned. • 5. The management board shall take its decisions, including decisions regarding its legal status, the establishment of its organisational structure, resources and staffing, on the basis of mutual consent of the infrastructure managers concerned. The management board may be an independent legal entity. It may take the form of a European economic interest grouping within the meaning of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2137/85 of 25 July 1985 on the European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) (1).

10. Reg. 913/2010List of initial freight corridors - Member States Principal routes: • 1. Zeebrugge-Antwerp/Rotterdam-Duisburg-[Basel]-Milan- Genoa (By 10 November 2013) NL, BE, DE, IT • 2. Rotterdam-Antwerp-Luxembourg-Metz-Dijon-Lyon/[Basel] (By 10 November 2013) NL, BE, LU, FR • 3.Stockholm-Malmö-Copenhagen-Hamburg-Innsbruck- Verona Palermo (By 10 November 2015) SE, DK, DE, AT, ITCENTRAL NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDOR • 4. Sines-Lisbon/Leixőes — Madrid-Medina del Campo/ Bilbao/San Sebastian-Irun- Bordeaux-Paris/Le Havre/Metz Sines-Elvas/Algeciras By 10 November 2013PT, ES, FR • 5.Gdynia-Katowice-Ostrava/Žilina-Bratislava/Vienna/ Klagenfurt-Udine-Venice/ Trieste/ /Bologna/Ravenna/ Graz-Maribor-Ljubljana- Koper/Trieste By 10 November 2015 PL, CZ, SK, AT, IT, SI BALT-MED CORRIDOR • 6.Almería-Valencia/Madrid-Zaragoza/Barcelona-Marseille- Lyon-Turin-Milan-Verona-Padua/Venice-Trieste/Koper-Ljubljana-Budapest-Zahony (Hungarian-Ukrainian border) By 10 November 2013 ES, FR, IT, SI, HUMEDITERRANEAN CORRIDOR • 7.Prague-Vienna/Bratislava-Budapest/ -Bucharest-Constanta/ - Vidin-Sofia-Thessaloniki-Athens By 10 November 2013 CZ, AT, SK, HU, RO, BG, ELORIENT CORRIDOR • 8. Bremerhaven/Rotterdam/Antwerp-Aachen/Berlin-Warsaw- Terespol (Poland-Belarus border)/Kaunas By 10 November 2015 DE, NL, BE, PL, LT • 9.Prague-Horní Lideč-Žilina-Košice-Čierna nad Tisou (Slovak/ Ukrainian border) By 10 November 2013 CZ, SK

11. Action Plan: Action (3) - “To enhance cooperation between air traffic stakeholders in order to prepare a plan to implement shorter plane routes • Example of project:“To implement SESAR, the technological part of the Single European Sky, in the Danube Region”. Intelligent traffic systems in the air transport sector contribute to reduce airports' environmental footprint and to minimise nuisances like noise and air pollution. Technological tools can contribute to a more efficient management of flights both on the ground (airport management systems) and in the air (Functional Airspace Blocks). (Lead: ? , Financing: ?) • FABs in the Region: - FAB CE (Functional Airspace Block Central Europe) AT, B&H, HR, CZ, HU, SK and SI - Danube FAB BG and RO - FAB EC (Functional Airspace Block Europe Central) DE, BE, FR, LU, NL and CH • Serbia, Montenegro, Moldova and Ukraine are not YET included in FAB implementation!

12. Action Plan: Action (4) -“To ensure sustainable metropolitan transport systems and mobility”. • Example of project:“To create river-bus and other connections between urban centres along the Danube (Danube Express Project)”. The project aims to create river-bus connections between the big metropolis along the Danube and their satellites. The river-bus should be a solution especially for the longitudinal travel needs and for the areas where there are no bridges across the Danube. That would improve the mobility of people and could also be used for tourism purposes. The project should help increase the intermodal passengers transport leading to an optimal and sustainable utilization of resources. (Lead: ? , Financing: ?)

13. Action Plan:: Action (5) - “To improve the regional/ local cross-border infrastructure and the access to rural areas”. • Example of project - “To extend public transport lines”. This is a programme to encourage the public transport companies of the Danube valley countries (bus and rail) to extend their existing lines, charging a local fare, to connect settlements on both sides of the border. (Lead: ? , Financing: ?)

14. Action Plan: Action (6)- “To develop further nodal planning for multimodality”. The overlap of different freight and person transport leads in many nodes to congestion and loss of productivity. • Example of project -“To implement the South North Axis (SoNorA) project” The aim of this project is to develop accessibility between the Adriatic and Baltic seas by making the network real through support for the completion of transport infrastructure, by activating and improving multimodal freight logistics services, by developing transnational action plans for future realisations and by supporting new regional development opportunities arising from transport network improvements. (Lead: Veneto Region (Italy), Financing: ?)

15. Action Plan: Action (7)- “To develop further Intelligent Traffic Systems by using environmental-friendly technologies, especially in urban regions”. • Example of project -“To implement the European Digital Traffic Infrastructure Network for Intelligent Transport Systems (EDITS)” Better information about the transport system allows a more efficient management of the existing transport infrastructure, reducing congestion and environmental damage. This is the overall objective of the project EDITS (e.g.: traffic management, traffic planning and modelling, traffic information), using transnationally harmonised traffic geodata. Vienna Region" can serve as a good practice example. Also supporting transport planners to manage the existing transport infrastructure in a more efficient way. Local/ regional/ national administrations will be provided with technical guidance. (Lead: Public Transport Association of the Vienna Region; Financing: ?)

16. Projects Possible Division Geographical Scope: • Within The Danube Region • Going beyond the Region’s boundaries Time of execution: • Ongoing • Planned • Project Ideas

17. Projects (2) Received 41 projects from 7 member countries: AT (2), BG (6), HU (6), SK (3), SI (2), SRB (20), RO (2) • Aviation 9, • Rail 16 • Road 4 • Intermodal 8 • Passenger transport 2 • Research / transport policy 2 Status: Planned: 17 Ongoing: 19 Project Idea: 5

18. Examples of Ongoing Projects: Scandria aims to link Scandinavia (Baltic Sea) with Northern Adriatic http://www.scandriaproject.eu/ CETC (the Central European Transport Corridor) Route 65 aims to link Baltic Sea (Gdansk) with Northern Adriatic http://konferencja.cetc.pl/en/conference/filter/1 BatCo aims to link Baltic Sea with Adriatic Sea Duration: 36 months (March 2010 - February 2013) http://batco.datenkraft.info/en/batco/objectives-project-structure SoNorA aims to develop accessibility between the Adriatic and Baltic seas Duration:40 months (November 2008 - February 2012) http://www.sonoraproject.eu/ Projects (3):Neighbouring Countries Cooperation

19. Projects (4):Neighbouring Countries Cooperation • SEETAC aims at solving the cross-border bottlenecks and the lack of harmonization and becoming an instrument to solve both the administrative problems, such as missing institutional and legal transnational framework at border crossings, and the operational ones, such as lack of common safety, security and environmental standards, lack of harmonisation of transport modes. http://www.seetac.eu/ • CREAM - Customer-driven Rail-freight services on a European mega-corridor (Rotterdam- Munich-Ljubljana-Istanbul) based on Advanced business and operating Models http://www.cream-project.eu/home/index.php • FLAVIAaims to improve intermodal freight transport logistics between central and south-eastern Europe, while at the same time strengthening the environmentally friendly modes of transport rail and inland waterways. http://www.flavia-online.de/ • TRANSITECS focus of the project lies on making rail more attractive and accessible for the logistic market http://www.transitects.org/

20. Work Program 2011 Key planned activities 2011 • Draft Work programme • Taking stock of ongoing projects and studies (inventory) • Review of targets • Re-examination of actions • Meetings (including conferences, seminars) - PA1b SG - Stakeholders conference (transport) - Active participation on invited events

21. Next Steps Tentative Time Table 2011 • Kick-off meeting of the PA1b Steering Group (2PACs, 12 members and the Commission) in Slovenia (22 June 2011) • Second meeting of PA1b SG in Serbia (October) • (poss.) Meeting four PACs (SRB, SI, RO, AT)(poss. Vienna, before end 2011) – overview of activities of PA 1a and 1b • (poss.) Stakeholders conference - transport(2011/2012)

22. Conclusion

23. CONTACTS PAC 1b Mr.Miodrag Poledica Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy, Serbia poledica@mi.gov.rs Tel: +381 11 3616 613 Mr.Franc Žepič Ministry of Transport, Slovenia franc.zepic@gov.si Tel: +386 1 478 8524 Thank you!