Your ultimate guide to the latest breakthroughs, trends, and opportunities shaping EU-UK transport relations. This edition is packed with fresh insights and pivotal updates as we navigate a transformative era for UK-EU transport and trade. Together, let’s explore the exciting developments driving collaboration and innovation across borders! 🚀For more insights or want to join or support UKTiE, don’t hesitate to reach out! 🚆🚗🚢✈️

We thought it would be useful to share some of the key documents and provide some insight each month or so, ahead of the Transport Committee of the European Parliament. Hope it helps us all work together to create a future of seamless travel, thriving trade, cutting-edge innovation, and sustainable growth. Join us in driving this transformation! And a short video summing it all up in less than a minute. Let me know if this is useful.

We’re energised and focused on following up the transformative UK-EU Transport ‘Reset’ event held in Westminster on November 11th, in partnership with Dft. This historic gathering of UK transport leaders and the DfT marked a pivotal moment in shaping bold priorities for a stronger UK-EU partnership for transport & trade. The future is ours to build—together!

P.S. can’t promise future videos will always be less than a minute, but it’s a good goal to aim for 😊

Darren Caplan, Chief Executive of the Railway Industry Association (RIA), the UK rail trade body which hosted the event, emphasised the transformative potential of the reset: “This UK-EU reset has significant potential to make a real difference.”

🚨 Next TRAN Committee of European Parliament Today! 🚨

📍 Key Focus: Air Transport, Passenger Rights & Multimodal Journeys.

💡Main Committee Items:

🛫 Air Transport Agreements Update

✈️ Exchange of views with the European Commission and Florian Guillermet, Executive Director of EASA.

🧳 Public Hearing: Passenger Rights

Theme: Strengthening enforcement and improving multimodal journeys with new rights.

🔹 Objective:

Public debate on two legislative proposals in the Passenger Mobility Package.

Enhance passenger rights, a cornerstone of EU transport policy.

🔹 Proposals:

Revised Passenger Rights Regulations – Stronger enforcement.

Rights in Multimodal Journeys – Better integration and protection

📄 Agenda & Resources:

📌 Full Agenda

https://lnkd.in/erMSVBP5

📌 Hearing Programme

https://lnkd.in/eqh4yFDN

📌 Speaker Bios

https://lnkd.in/e4esQ3v4

📌 Minutes from Last Meeting

https://lnkd.in/eX6VurfR

💡 Everything You Need To Know! Watch the one minute video!

🤝Hearing of Sustainable Transport & Tourism Commissioner-Designate Apostolos Tzitzikostas, 4 November, Brussels

Shaping the Future: Sustainable Transport & Tourism Commissioner-Designate Tzitzikostas sets bold priorities at his Hearing with significant impacts on UK transport and trade

📌Written Questions & Answers

https://hearings.elections.europa.eu/documents/tzitzikostas/tzitzikostas_writtenquestionsandanswers_en.pdf

📌Verbatim Report of the Hearing

https://hearings.elections.europa.eu/documents/tzitzikostas/tzitzikostas_verbatimreporthearing-original.pdf

💂🏼‍♂️ Transport Leaders Gathered in Westminster to Drive UK-EU Reset and Forge New Transport & Trade Opportunities, 11 November

⚡ What an inspiring day! UKTiE, together with the Department for Transport (DfT) and Britain’s leading transport companies and organisations, came together to discuss critical trade, travel, tech, sustainability, and investment links with Europe. as we embrace a reset in our relationship with European partners.

💡 What’s next?

We’re working with DfT’s new two-way engagement to develop a joint action plan, which will outline next steps and include details for a follow-up video call early in the new year to keep the momentum going.

📈 We must reset our relationship with Brussels, says UK Chancellor, 14 November, London

In her Mansion House speech on November 14, 2024, Chancellor Rachel Reeves emphasised the importance of strengthening the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union. She acknowledged that while the UK will not rejoin the EU’s single market or customs union, there is a need to rebuild and enhance ties with European partners to boost trade and economic growth. Reeves highlighted that Brexit has presented structural challenges, particularly affecting trade and productivity, and underscored the necessity of reducing barriers between the UK and the EU to foster a more open and competitive economy.

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/mansion-house-2024-speech

💶 The UK’s back in the EU’s multi-billion Euro Horizon Europe Programme

The UK’s back in a bit of the EU, with our association to the world-leading Horizon Europe programme which is already delivering for UK researchers, businesses and local authorities. €40 Billion remains in the programme, which will run until 2027. So UKTiE is helping turbo-charge efforts to maximise UK involvement. Louise Mothersole, the UK’s Horizon Europe contact for mobility recently gave us a briefing on current and future opportunities for the sector. Details of the latest call for climate-neutral and smart cities, and more information here:

https://www.gov.uk/business-finance-support/horizon-europe-funding

Key dates

🗓️ Next TRAN Meeting: December 4-5, 2024, Brussels

🗓️ The full Commission approval by the European Parliament: 25-28 November, Strasbourg.

🗓️ End of year UK-EU transport networking event in Brussels: December

🗓️ UKTiE UK-EU Engaging in Europe – new horizons on-line event to agree new DfT/UKTiE strategy: January 2025

🗓️ Next UKTiE meeting with European Commission: January 2025

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Information and images: Many thanks to the European Parliament©

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