Making the new UK-EU relationship a success for transport
UK transport in Europe (UKTiE), Britain’s UK-EU multi-modal transport association, is busy shaping the UK-EU transport agenda for next year, with a series of policy, research and engagement initiatives agreed at our recent roundtable held jointly with the UK Mission to the EU (UKMis).
Even after Britain has left the Customs Union and the Single Market at the end of the year UK transport will still want to maintain a constructive and informed dialogue with its European neighbours, and vice versa.
2021 will mark the beginning, not the end, of a new relationship with the EU, with ongoing negotiations and discussions continuing for many years to come. If you provide goods or services to mainland Europe, EU rules will still apply, and EU policy and law will continue to shape UK and global standards for many decades to come. Being party to those developments is vital in order to protect and promote your interests at home and abroad.
UKTiE’s primary objective to make future EU-UK relations as mutually beneficial as possible for the transport sector. Put simply, to make the new UK-EU relationship a success!
To achieve this, it makes sense to work together. Sharing insights, expertise, and ideas on how that relationship could evolve in the future. Exchanging best practice and securing high levels of engagement to gain the sort of influence that would be difficult, expensive or even impossible, alone.
UK Transport in Europe has for the past ten years built up a strong reputation in Brussels as the go-to organisation by Whitehall and Brussels, and we will continue our work next year to be the UK PLC ‘springboard’ to influence the EU and the global transport agenda.
Anyone who has an interest in making a success of – or simply staying informed about – the new UK-EU future relationship for transport is invited to take part.
We have an exciting, ambitious and pro-active programme of activities for 2021 so please contact me if you wish to join UKTiE, require more information, or wish to sponsor our events.
We can make it a success if we move forward together!
Best wishes, and take care
Mark Watts
Chief Executive
UKTiE
