Liberalisation of EU port services: state of play
Briefing
30-10-2014
Serving as access points to the continent, Europe’s approximately 1 200 seaports are crucial to both the European transport sector and the competitiveness of the European Union (EU). They also have significant potential for creating jobs and attracting investors. There are huge disparities in performance levels between the various EU ports, however, and this has resulted in traffic diversions, longer journeys by sea and by land, and, consequently, higher CO2 emissions. The European Commission plans to resolve this situation through its latest proposal to liberalise port services in the EU’s 319 main seaports.
Briefing
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- combined transport
- common ports policy
- common transport policy
- consumption
- drafting of EU law
- employment
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- EU finance
- EU financing
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- freedom to provide services
- harbour installation
- labour law and labour relations
- liberalisation of the market
- maritime and inland waterway transport
- market access
- organisation of transport
- port administration
- service concession
- services of general interest
- single market
- social dialogue
- TRADE
- trade policy
- trans-European network
- TRANSPORT
- transport policy
- transport staff