TRACECA. Transport сorridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia

in May 1993, involving Ministries of Trade and Transport from 8 countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
In the period of 1996-1998 Ukraine, Mongolia and Moldova joined the Programme. 
At the First Annual Meeting of IGC TRACECA in Tbilisi, March 2000, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey have become members of the Basic Multilateral Agreement of the international transport on development of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia corridor (MLA). At the Second Annual Meeting in Taskent, April 24-25,2002, they joined the Programme.
In July 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran accessed to the MLA TRACECA

the development of the TRACECA corridor as an alternative to the North Trans-Siberian route;
Unification of the TRACECA corridor with the European transport networks;
Support of the political and economic independence of the CIS countries, and afterwards, of the participant states of the Basic Multilateral Agreement on International Transport for Development of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Corridor.

of economic relations, trade and transport; communications in Europe, in the Black Sea region and the Caucasus, in the Caspian Sea region and Asia;
To facilitate access to the international market of road and railway transport as well as commercial navigation;
To ensure traffic safety, security of goods and environment protection;
To harmonize transport policies and the transport legal framework;
To create equal competition conditions for the consolidation of the transport field;

main beneficiaries and other project counterparts are able to actively support the project and participate in project implementation by providing necessary labor, equipment and facilities.
The Ministries of Transport and TRACECA National Secretariats are expected to support the project in all its phases. In particular, access to necessary and relevant information and data should not be prevented.
Furthermore, political continuity and stability in the countries is a key factor in pursuing their policy of regional integration and of establishing a viable, secure and safe land transport sector.

co-operation between the beneficiary countries on the cross-regional level;
No commitment to address the different legal and organizational bases of the beneficiaries’ authorities involved;
Rules and regulations are subject to variations and interpretations;

BENEFITED OF THE FOLLOWING:

International Road Transport and Transit Facilitation (1998-2000) /
Transportation prognosis and technical-economical bases (1999-2000);
Harmonization of border crossing procedures ( 2001-2003);
Unified Policy on Transit Fees and Tariffs (2001-2003);
Technical and economical motivation for improving automobile and railway border crossing points between Moldova and Ukraine (2002-2004);
Common Legal Basis for Transit Transportation (2003-2005);
Capacity Development for Senior Transport Officials (2003-2005);
Trade Facilitation and Institution Support (2004-2006).

(IRU): term - 1998-2000, budget (Euro) - 2 800 000;
Intergovernmental Commission for the Implementation of the Multilateral Agreement on Transport: term - 1999-2001, budget (Euro) - 1 100 000;
Traffic Forecasting and Feasibility Studies: term - 1999-2001, budget (Euro)-2000000;
Intergovernmental Commission for the Implementation of the Multilateral Agreement on Transport (follow up): term - 2001-2002, budget (Euro) - 1 050 000;
Harmonization of Border Crossing Procedures: term - 2001-2003, budget (Euro) – 2 000 000;
Unified Policy on Transit Fees and Tariffs: term - 2001-2003, budget (Euro) – 2 000 000;
TRACECA Coordination Team: term - 2001-2003, budget (Euro) - 500 000;
Common Legal Basis for Transit Transportation: term - 2003-2005, budget (Euro) - 2 000 000;
Capacity Development for Senior Transport Officials: term - 2003-2005, budget (Euro) - 1 800 000;
Trade Facilitation and Institution Support: term - 2004-2006, budget (Euro)- 2 000 000;
Freight Forwarders Training Courses: term - 2006-2007 budget (Euro) - 2 000 000.

governments and civil society to actively promote the safety and security of road users, the public, property, and the environment within the Europe-Caucasus-Asia region’s transport corridor.
The project is funded by the European Union and involves 10 member states within the region.
The Aim
Aligning with road safety pillars four and five of the UN’s Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety, the project aims to ensure safer road user behaviour and improved post-crash care.

Improvements
Safer Infrastructure
Safer Vehicles
Safer Road Users;
Medical Care for Crash Victims
Changing Attitudes to Road Safety

on road safety;
300 stakeholders with a shared vision of road safety;
10 groups of key stakeholder working groups with capacity to design and implement risk factor pilot interventions, effective public awareness campaigns, and other country-tailored pilot interventions;
300 trained traffic police officers to prevent traffic-crashes and deaths and to promote safer road user behaviours;
300 civil society members (staff, Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies volunteers and representatives, and civil society organizations) trained in principles of advocacy for road safety and first response training;
An online library of good practice public campaigns with access to Ministries, Road Safety Councils, Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies, NGOs and the business sector;

COUNTRIES

Sub-regional workshop was held on
22-24 October 2014, in Chisinau on
the topic of ‘Road safety fundamentals
and interventions’ organized under the
TRACECA Road Safety II Project;
The workshop launched a series of activities to be implemented by the GRSP and a consortium of partners as part of the TRACECA Road Safety II project which aims to :
reduce road crashes and trauma by building regional and national partnership between stakeholders in the government, civil society and private sectors;
strengthening capacity through workshops and implementing pilot road safety interventions;