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Heads of Government Approved Transport Road Map for Next Three Years
At its meeting on October 1 in Yerevan, the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council approved a road map for implementing the Directions and Implementation Stages of the Coordinated (Agreed) Transport Policy of the Member States of the Eurasian Economic Union for 2024–2026.
The road map defines joint measures of the Eurasian Economic Commission and authorized bodies in the field of transport regarding practical support to the key strategic document — the Main Directions and Implementation Stages of Transport Policy.
The road map activities are aimed at the consistent enhancement of integration processes in the field of transport, namely at achieving the goals of shaping a common transport space and a common market of transport services in the Union.
When preparing the document, the experts proceeded from development specifics of road, rail, air and water transport in the current conditions and assessed the possibility of regulation convergence, as well as industry-wide aspects of transport activities.
The document includes such significant activities as listing bottlenecks of transport infrastructure across the EAEU countries in the East-West and North-South directions and developing proposals for their elimination. In addition, the countries plan to improve the Union law and legislation of the Member States to introduce electronic transport documents in the EAEU, including the abandonment of paper-based documents in the field of transportation and the transition to electronic data exchange.
In total, the document includes 33 actions agreed upon by countries to be implemented in 2024–2026. They are a logical extension of the previous three-year roadmaps for 2018–2020 and 2021–2023.
Heads of Government also instructed the Commission and the parties to continue consultations on a number of important areas of transport integration, in particular on air transport and human resources development, and after further elaboration to submit the agreed measures to the Intergovernmental Council for consideration.
This must be done by February 1, 2025. Working through further activities will not impede the full implementation of the roadmap for 2024–2026 as approved by the Intergovernmental Council's disposition.
