Transport industry deregulation
Description:
The deregulation of transport modes constitutes the most important policy development in European transport since the mid-1980s. The degree of deregulation varies across transport modes, e.g. cabotage rules, “railway packages”, Single European Sky initiative, or initiatives for “European maritime transport space without barriers”;
An ongoing process for improving the institutional framework of European transport is underway, aiming to strengthen competition, both within and between transport modes, to improve the efficiency levels of the transport modes and the subsequent introduction of international players.
Legal basis:
Cabotage rules are described by Regulation 1072/2009/EC of 14 May 201047. This regulation replaced Regulations (EEC) 881/9248 and (EEC) 3118/9349, as well as Directive 2006/94/EC50 and allows the national carriage of goods for hire or reward carried out by non-resident hauliers on a temporary basis in Member States. In particular, the haulier must have entered the host Member