EC Support Group for Ukraine to help the Ministry of Infrastructure in carrying out reforms in transport sector
The Infrastructure
Ministry and the European Commission’s Support Group for Ukraine start
cooperation on the implementation of the provisions of the Association
Agreement with the EU in the transport sector. The first introductory meeting
of experts from both sides took place on 9 September at the Ministry with
participation of Deputy Infrastructure Minister on European integration Oksana Reyter and Philippe Burghelle-Vernet, Head of Unit Internal Market,
Aviation Agreements and Multilateral Relations.
The first step in
stirring up this cooperation will become an analysis of introduced European
requirements and standards in Ukrainian transport legislation and determining
priorities in future work.
"The work of the
Ministry of Infrastructure will focus on the development of draft legislative
acts, which would take into account the requirements of EU legislation in the
field of transport. Therefore, the Ministry of Infrastructure will be grateful
for the analysis of these draft projects by the European party", - said Oksana Reyter.
The Deputy Minister
noted that activities in the field of air transport will be formed in a
separate plan in accordance with the directives contained in the Common
Aviation Area Agreement.
Therefore, the
Infrastructure Ministry will prepare for the EU experts information concerning
each kind of transport, in particular, which EU directives have already been
introduced in Ukraine, and which are to be implemented. In response, the
Infrastructure Ministry expects the EU to hold analysis of the performed work,
notably, on the fundamental draft laws in the motor, railway industries, the
field of multimodal transportations, etc. In addition, the parties reached an
agreement on further cooperation on updating the map of principal routes of the
Trans European transport network (TEN-T)that passes
through Ukraine, in particular, regarding the inclusion of inland waterways of
Ukraine into it.
It should be noted,
on April 9, this year, the European Commission decided to establish a Support
Group for Ukraine, which targets providing support to our state in carrying out
reforms, including in the framework of the implementation of the European
Agenda for Reform in Ukraine.