Southeast Europe Transport Community

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Transport Community
Native names:
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Founded atTrieste  Italy
Typeinternational organisation
HeadquartersBelgrade,  Serbia
Region
Southeast Europe
Membership
Director
Matej Zakonjsek
Websitewww.transport-community.org

Transport Community is an international organisation in the field of mobility and transport, consisting of 33 participants – the entire EU and the six Western Balkans regional partners. 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. The organisation was founded by the Treaty establishing the Transport Community signed on 9th of October 2017 by all partners (Council Decision (EU) 2019/392). The aim of the Treaty therefore 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 European Union and the six Western Balkan parties namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo,[a] North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.[1] In December 2017 Belgrade was unanimously elected as the seat of the Community's Permanent Office. The permanent office was open in September 2019.

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References:

  1. ^ "Transport Community". European Commission Mobility and Transport. Retrieved 16 September 2019.

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  1. ^ a b Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008. Serbia continues to claim it as a part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognised as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states have recognised Kosovo at some point, of which 15 states later withdrew their recognition.


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