Indicative programme - Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (Transport) of 3 December 2018
Place:
Europa building, Brussels
Chair:
Norbert Hofer, Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology of Austria
All times are approximate and subject to change
from 07:45
Arrivals
+/- 08:00
Doorstep by Minister Hofer
09.30
Beginning of Council meeting (Roundtable)
Adoption of the agenda
Approval of non-legislative legislative A items
Land
+/- 9:40
Mobility package I (public session)
Access to the profession and access to the haulage market
Rest time periods and tachographs
Enforcement and lex specialis for posting of drivers
+/- 11:40
Mobility package II - Combined transport (public session)
+/- 12:00
Mobility package III - Road infrastructure safety management (public session)
+/- 12:30
Lunch debate on Airspace capacity in Europe
+/- 15:00
Discontinuing seasonal changes of time (public session)
+/- 15:20
Rail passengers’ rights and obligations (public session)
Shipping
+/- 15:30
Inland waterway transport
+/- 15:45
Minimum training of seafarers (public session)
+/- 16:05
Mobility package III - European Maritime Single Window environment (public session)
Horizontal
+/- 16:45
Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) (public session)
Mobility package III - Trans-European transport network (TEN-T) (public session)
Mobility package II - Clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles (public session)
Mobility package III - Electronic freight transport information (eFTI) (public session)
Other business:
+/- 18:15
Electronic road tolling and exchange of information (EETS) (public session)
+/- 18:20
Safeguarding competition in air transport (public session)
+/- 18:25
Wet-Lease (public session)
+/- 18:30
ASEAN Negotiations
+/- 18:35
Social Agenda in Aviation
+/- 18:55
Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Charging and Internalisation of Transport Externalities
+/- 19:10
Space programme of the Union (public session)
+/- 19:20
Informal Meeting of Transport and Environment Ministers in Graz
+/- 19:30
Work programme of the incoming Presidency
+/- 19.45
Press conference (live streaming)
In the margins of the Council
+/- 14:45
Signing ceremony of "Danube Declaration" (TV/Photo opportunity)