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| Founded at | Trieste, Italy |
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| Type | international organisation |
| Headquarters | Belgrade, Serbia |
Region | Southeast Europe |
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Director | Matej Zakonjsek |
| Website | www |
TheTransport Community is an international organisation in the field of mobility and transport, consisting of 36 participants. The participants are theEuropean Union (EU) member states (represented by theEuropean Commission); the non-EU countries of theWestern Balkans, namelyAlbania,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Kosovo,Montenegro,North Macedonia andSerbia; and three observing participants (Georgia,Moldova andUkraine).
The Transport Community's stated goal is integration of Western Balkans’ transport markets into the EU, by assisting the six Western Balkans partners to adopt and implement the EU legislation in the field of transport and by supporting projects that are connecting Western Balkans regional partners among themselves and with the EU.
TheSouth East Europe Transport Observatory (SEETO), based in Belgrade, had been collecting data on transport in the Western Balkan area since 2004, producing reports recommending courses of action.[1]
The organisation was founded by the Treaty establishing the Transport Community signed on 12 July 2017 inTrieste and ratified by 9th of October 2017 by all partners (Council Decision (EU) 2019/392).
The aim of the Treaty is the creation of a Transport Community in the field of road, rail, inland waterway and maritime transport as well as the development of the transport network between the European Union and the six Western Balkan Parties. Its members are theEuropean Union and the sixWestern Balkan parties namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.[2]
In December 2017Belgrade was unanimously elected as the seat of the Community's Permanent Office. The permanent office was opened in September 2019.[3]
Developing a rolling plan for theTen-T interlinked system.[4]
Between 2015 and 2020, the EU provided €1 billion in grants to transport and energy projects which has been added to a further €1 billion collected from other sources. 45,000 jobs have been created.[5]
There are three observing participants, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine and in 2022 it was agreed that the organisation will be expanded to include these three countries as full members.[6]
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