On February 23, 2017 at the premises of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine the Second Steering Committee Meeting of the Twinning Project “Support to Improving the Safety of Multimodal Dangerous Goods Transport in Ukraine” was held.
The Project is implemented in joint cooperation with the Ministry of Public Works and Transport of the Kingdom of Spain, the Ministry of Environment, Energy and the Sea of the French Republic and the General Inspectorate of Road Transport of the Republic of Poland.
The goal of the Project is to improve multimodal dangerous goods transport system in Ukraine including road, rail, sea and river (IWW) as well as multimodal connections in line with the European rules and standards.
BC Project Leader, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine for European Integration Viktor Dovgan in his opening speech welcomed the participants as well as expressed gratitude to the European experts for fruitful cooperation and support in creation of commercial road transport safety in Ukraine.
Spanish MS Project Leader, Head of the Unit for Land Transport Inspection of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport Luis Martinez Jimenez and French MS Project Leader, Head of the Mission for Transport of Dangerous Goods of the Ministry of Environment, Energy and the Sea Claude Pfauvadel expressed their gratitude to the participants for the cooperation and presented the quarterly project report. They also outlined realized activities of all components and defined plans for the next reporting period.
Transport Project Manager of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Teodora Andreeva commented the quarterly report as well as stressed on the importance of strengthening cooperation between the partners of the Project that will contribute to achieve concrete mandatory operational results and necessity of broad awareness the stakeholders about project achievements.
Head of the Division of Transport Safety and Technical Regulation of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine Anton Schelkunov stressed that during the reporting period the significant results were achieved and current legislation was analyzed within the framework of the monitoring expert mission of the Twinning Project in Ukraine.
MS Project Leader, Deputy Director of General Inspectorate of Road Transport of the Republic of Poland Michal Pierzchala, representatives of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, the State Service of Ukraine for Transport Safety and other interested government authorities took part in the event.
On behalf of the Center for Adaptation of the Civil Service to the Standards of the European Union the event was attended by the Senior Consultant on the Twinning Coordination Sector of the Projects Management Unit Yuliia Fedyna.
For reference:
according to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On Approval of the Procedure for Initiation, Preparation and Implementation of the Twinning projects” as of October 11, 2016 No 700 the National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service coordinates the implementation of Institution Building Instrument Twinning in Ukraine. In addition, according to the relevant regulatory acts the National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service is the national coordinator of institution building instrument TAIEX and CIB programme implementation in Ukraine.
In order to provide effective coordination of Twinning, TAIEX instruments and CIB programme the Twinning Programme Administration office in Ukraine was created, its functions are executed by the Center for Adaptation of the Civil Service to Standards of the European Union.
