Work Group - Transport Annual Report 2009-2010

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern under Mr .Sebastian Schröder, Secretary of State Ministry for Transport, Building and Regional Development Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and with Mr Wolf Born, as the BSC Executive Committee contact, has taken the lead of the BSC thematic workgroup for Transport.

Contact for the chair Mr Karl Schmude, (MV).

The Working Group Transport has closely followed European Transport Policy. Among the topics discussed during the last period were

* Future Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T)

* Green Freight Transport Corridors * Freight-oriented Railway Network

All these issues are high on the EU agenda, and they will continue to be quite important for our work. The group tries to maintain a specific "Baltic" viewpoint on these issues, as expressed e.g. by the short "mandate for the chair".

Several meetings have been held during the last year, and to all of them, external guests have been present:

05 Feb 2009 Warnemünde / DE 02 Apr 2009 Brussels 30 Sep 2009 Göteborg

The group also has sent delegates to the CPMR intergroup (working on EU-27 level) on TEN-T which has convened three times (Brussels, Zaragoza, Göteborg).

So far, the following milestones can be foreseen for the coming year:

* Open Consultation of EU-COM "future of TEN-T" 04/05/2010 - 15/09/2010

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/infrastructure/consultations/2010_09_15_future_policy_en.htm

* Working meeting 27 May 2010, Warnemünde

* CPMR intergroup for TEN-T 07 Jun 210, Zaragoza / ES Back-to-back with TEN-T-Days 2010 https://www.ten-t-days-2010-zaragoza.eu/

* Working meeting (tbc) 31 Nov / 01 Dec 2010, Jyväskylä /FI Back-to-back with Baltic Sea Region Programme Conference http://eu.baltic.net/