NEWS

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.

6th Technical Committee on Transport Facilitation took place on 22 September 2020 via video conference. The most important issued discussed were: • The activities undertaken since the last meeting of the Technical committee on transport facilitation (monitoring the BCPs situation, activities

5th Road Safety Technical Committee meeting was held on 23 September 2020 via video conference. The meeting was focused on the impact of COVID-19 on road safety in Western Balkans, improving road safety on high-risk road sections, and progress made