Abstract
European transport is not only a key sector of the EU economy, but indispensable for the functioning of the internal market. The current major challenges for European transport can be briefly summed into the costs of congestion, the reduction of oil dependency and greenhouse gas emissions, infrastructure quality, and internal and external competition. This chapter discusses how the global financial and economic crisis of late 2000s has affected the economic activity of European transport, how the European legal order has responded to the new challenges and the orientations and developments of EU transport policy.
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For information about the EU transport infrastructure policy, the reader may refer to Ponti et al. (2013) and “The Pillars of the TEN-T policy” (available online at https://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/infrastructure/ten-t-guidelines_en, accessed 15 January 2019).
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The reader may refer to the announcements of the European Commission about Brexit and the transport sector (see https://ec.europa.eu/transport/transport-modes/news/2017-12-11-brexit-notice-stakeholders_en, accessed 23 January 2019).
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Cabotage is the transport of goods or passengers between two places in the same country by a transport operator from another country.
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The reader may refer for more information to the “Fourth railway package of 2016” (available online at https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/rail/packages/2013_en, accessed 15 January 2019).
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For more information, the reader may refer to “Europe on the move: A well-functioning internal market” (available online at https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/road/road-initiatives/well-functioning-internal-market-for-road-transport_en, accessed 15 January 2019).
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For more information, the reader may refer to “Mobility and Transport: Maritime” (available online at https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/maritime_en, accessed on 15 January 2019).
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Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4055/86, p. 1.
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Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4057/86, p. 14 and Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4058/86, p. 21.
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Commission Communication C (2004, p. 3).
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Regulation (EU) 2017/352, p. 1.
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Pantazi, T., Vlachos, V. (2019). European Union Transport Policy. In: Vlachos, V., Bitzenis, A. (eds) European Union. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18103-1_5
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