EEA Transport and Environment Committee

The EEA Transport & Environment Committee (TEC) focuses on a number of policy issues cutting across the transport and environment space and spanning the different transport modes.

A number of key issues are of ongoing importance for the TEC. For road transport, cabotage liberalisation and a European Modular System would increase significantly the environmental and business efficiency of the logistics and express sectors.

From an air transport perspective the creation of a Single European Sky would have significant benefits on the business and environmental efficiency of express operations. Furthermore, the TEC works to promote a “balanced approach” to the issue of aircraft noise management. Finally, the TEC supports a global framework for aviation emissions.

Express operators are genuinely multi-modal. Therefore, the TEC fully supports policy initiatives aiming to encourage effective and realistic co-modality between transport modes.

The European Commission’s vision for the Future of European Transport Policy for the next ten years should therefore be based on truly integrated modal networks that are able to deliver results in terms of sustainability and competitiveness, putting the transport sector at the centre of Europe’s 2020 Strategy.