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National Transport Policies Harmonisation in Europe

The European countries differ, in principle, to a great extent regarding the level of transport development, as well as regarding the priorities of development plans. In the sense of institutional re-organisation and of the normative harmonisation, the transition countries need to accept new regulations - laws and bylaws, which would adopt the international technical standards, and primarily legal EU references. This is a process, which depends not only on the political will, but is rather time dictated by financial and human resources for preparation and implementation. The main barriers to the integration of the national transport systems of the transition countries into the common European transport system can be generalised in the following issues: structure of regulators and administration personnel ; legal issues - non-compliant regulations ; financial issues - free market, commercialisation/privatisation. Solving of the transport development issues in the context of EU integration primarily means adopting of the Transport Strategy at the national level. The basis and the main elements of this long term document represent the topic of this paper.

Transport Strategy; Transport Policy; Infrastructure; External Costs; Sustainability

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