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1 Chamber of Commerce Belgium-Luxembourg South-Eastern Europe EU Serbia Seminar Safer Road Engineering Cacak,, Milan Jezic von Gesseneck President

2 Chamber of Commerce BLSEE Certified Chamber of Commerce Affiliation of the Federation of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Belgium and Chambre de Commerce du Grand-Duche de Luxembourg Operating in cooperation with different Belgian agencies: AFT Agency for Foreign Trade Brussels Capital-Export Trade AWEX Export Vlaanderen

3 Chamber Members Currently Chamber has : About 100 patron, regular and individual direct members More than network members Significant number of the indirect members via Cooperation agreements with the regional chambers and associations such as cooperation agreement signed in Brussels last year with Chamber of Commerce of Serbia

4 Chamber Non for for-profit organization, acts for the benefit of the society and its members as Brussels Based Public Private Partnership Platform for South-East Europe

5 Chamber operation framework International organisation and financial institutions: EC, BERD,EIB Stability Pact WB UNDP,USAID, TDA,. Governments-Embassies Agencies Associations Chambers : FCCI Belgium & Regional WCN, ICC, Eurochambres Strategic Cooperation Business Trade Investment & Privatisations Education Culture Sport Technical Cooperation & Research Entities: EU Belgium Luxembourg Entities: SE Europe region

6 Transnational Chamber of Commerce

7 SEE and International community There are a few international activities related to the region European Commission especially DG TREN DG ENLARGEMET DG EDUCATION DG ENTERPRISE CEEBICnet

8 Cooperation in the Road Infrastructure

9 Partnership for SEE ERF and Chamber has agreed partnership for SEE Road transport infrastructure development Exchange of know-how, experience and best practices via: Training programs and workshops Conferences and Congress EU projects

10 Framework To support the activities for transferring knowledge as long as it concerns transport infrastructure and its adaptation to European Union standards and legislation.

11 Trainings to cover Institutional aspects (EU legislation & standards) Financial aspects of road management, Trans-European road networks Road management and maintenance, Safe road design, Cost-benefit assessment of transport investment choices, Sustainable road construction, Intelligent transportation systems

12 Current actions Workshop in Cacak today Hosted by

13 Trans-European transport network

14 Geo-strategic position all major transport Corridors are passing through SEE

15 Serbia & Monte Negro

16 Government s requests for support

17 Regional Conference on PPP Regional conference to be held in Belgrade Event covering: infrastructure financing mechanisms (PPPs( PPPs,, road user charging) All West Balkan Countries as well as eventually Turkey and Israel Target: 25 papers, 300 participants

18 Training Workshops 1-day training seminar in WBC covering EU legislation and standards Target: participants max

19 Thematic roundtables Thematic forum held in Brussels Target: participants max

20 Thematic Briefings Thematic notes produced on given policy area Target: recipients

21 Twining of organisations Establishment of privileged relations between EU and SEE transport organisations through "match-making making sessions" and technical assistance with MoUs. Target: 5 twinnings in Year One

22 2 nd nd European Road Congess A large scale event, the 2nd European Road Congress to be held in a Balkan country in 2006 To gather for three days of: thematic sessions, technical exhibitions and field field visits. Target: 500 participants, 50 papers,

23 Goal ERF-Chamber partnership has been developed to support all actors in genuine road infrastructure development of SEE, a crossroad of significance entirely embedded in the EU

24 Thank you Milan Jezic von Gesseneck Brussels, Tel

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