Governance of Transport Corridors in OIC Member States:

Challenges, Cases and Policy Lessons

accessible and that it contains project-specific and updated information on the forms and amounts of

Union co-funding, as well as on the progress of each project.”

To achieve this, the TENtec team set up the TENtec Public Portal

in 2012, an interactive map viewer

with adjustable layers for the public and businesses to see the work being done under TEN-T. The

viewer allows to select the data on various themes related to transport and transport projects on

various levels (national, corridor and European).

3.1.6

Promotion and stakeholder consultation

Promotion of the corridor

INEA, TENtec and the corridor coordinators contribute to the promotion of the corridors. TENtec

visualizes data to be used for promotion purposes by the other institutions. A major task for the

corridor coordinators is to promote and create awareness for the corridors. This is done through

publishing working programs for each corridor or joint publications such as the Joint Declaration of

the European Coordinators.

Involvement of stakeholders

Most capacity building is done by the corridor coordinators. Interacting with relevant stakeholders

and build consensus and public acceptance is their main goal. “Meeting ministers, CEOs of major ports

operators or infrastructure managers, regional authorities and other stakeholders, the European

Coordinators were pursuing on their path as Ambassadors of the Commissioner. They proved once

again to be instrumental for the coordination of most of the actors – at political and operational level

– to deliver the corridors. Their main assets remained their ability to be present on the post and their

availability to attend key operational meetings on a regular basis” (Balász, 2016).

Although TEN-T aims to involve stakeholders as much as possible in the planning process, observers

note that TEN-T still lacks collaborative planning, i.e. stakeholders are rarely consulted in the

governance process – at least not as much as what could be beneficial for the governance process

(Aparicio, 2017). One of the causes for this is that the barrier to participate is relatively high compared

to participation opportunities in national legislative procedures in most European countries (Aparicio,

2017).

3.1.7

Capacity building: technical assistance and studies

Carry out studies and provide technical support

The performance of corridors is monitored on a variety of scales (Europe-wide, corridor level) and for

different timeframes (yearly, every ten years). Fundamental to the direction of TEN-T are the so-called

Green – and White Papers

. These are document released by the Commission in which the

fundamental developments in the transport sector and the desired future directions are laid out. The

White Paper titled “Completing the internal market” issued in 1985 made a specific reference to the

transport sector as being crucial for further development of the European market, and sparked a

discussion for a common transport policy, which ultimately led to establishment of TEN-T in 1992. The

most recent White Paper; “Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area”, was published in 2011 and

listed the main challenges that are still to be overcome to complete the internal market.

Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 on Union guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network.

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Green Papers are documents published by the European Commission intended to start a debate on a particular topic. Green

Papers may be followed by White papers, official documents in which concrete proposals are made for the direction of a law.