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The region commits to modernisation of rail and re-establishing intercity links.

Transport Community Permanent Secretariat has prepared an overview of annual statistics of fatalities in 2020 for the Western Balkans region.

Transport Community Treaty Permanent Secretariat (TCT) and European Union Agency for Railways (ERA), organised six rail related workshops in each of the six Western Balkans partners (WB6)

Skopje, 10 December 2020: Transport Community Director Matej Zakonjšek, Minister of Transport and Communication Blagoj Bochvarski and European Commission Deputy Director-General Matthew Baldwin opened today an online workshop dedicated to Transport Community’s Action Plans. Following the opening session, regional stakeholders engaged in discussions on how to kickstart implementation in North Macedonia.

The Permanent Secretariat of the Transport Community is planning to award the public contract for ICT Consulting Services.

Matej Zakonjšek, Director of the Transport Community

Sarajevo – Belgrade Railway Needs to be Faster

Following adoption of four Action Plans at the Annual Ministerial Council on 26th October, Transport Community will present these strategic documents at workshops in each of the six regional partners during November and December.

26 October – Four Action Plans of the Transport Community Permanent Secretariat were unanimously endorsed at the Ministerial Council held today online. The key documents on rail, roads, road safety and transport facilitation are a step-by-step guide on how to achieve common political priorities of Western Balkans regional partners, as well as political objectives of the Transport Community Treaty. The documents form a base for Transport Community’s future engagement in the region.

26 October 2020 – Transport Community and Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking signed today a Memorandum of Understanding, whose objective is to promote cooperation on rail research and innovation. By cooperating, the two organisations will contribute to modernisation of the rail sector in the Western Balkans through deployment of new technologies and innovative solutions.

6 October 2020 – European Commission presented today its Economic and Investment Plan for Western Balkans. The plan presented by Commissioner Varhelyi, envisages unprecedented support of up to € 9 billion of funding for investment flagships in transport, energy, green and digital transition. As such, it paves the way to better integration of the Western Balkans transport markets into the EU, which will in turn offer new business opportunities and spur economic development.

The 7th edition of “Transport and Logistics of Southeast Europe and the Danube Region” conference took place today, 6 October 2020, at the Kombank Dvorana in Belgrade.

The 7th Technical Committee on Railway was held on 3 September 2020 via video conference.

Director of Transport Community Secretariat Matej Zakonjšek met today in Brussels with the Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi to discuss concrete actions that will transform the economies of the Western Balkans.

Dear visitor,

at the start of my mandate as Director of Transport Community Secretariat, I wanted to share with you our priorities in the coming period and my views for the future.

1 August 2020, Belgrade – Transport Community marks the first day of taking office of Mr Matej Zakonjšek, the organisation’s first Director.

Dear Reader,

Three years ago – on 12 July 2017, the Transport Community Treaty (TCT), after almost ten years of difficult negotiations, was finally signed in Trieste. It was however worth waiting for as this Treaty opened a new chapter in the relations between the EU and Western Balkans.  It is important to remind the date but also the aim of the Treaty: the Union and the Western Balkans parties agreed to share a common future as regards transport policy.

On 16 June, the Permanent Secretariat of the Transport Community has organized the 6th Technical Committee on Railway.

Following the presentation by the TCT secretariat of a proposal to set up “green lanes” for freight transport between EU MS and WB, please find attached a second working document regarding the re-opening of Borders to private cars.