Priority Area Coordinators

Below you can find the list of priority area coordinators (PACs) designated by Commissioner Hahn in February 2011. PACs are in charge of implementing the 11 priority areas of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region

1) To improve mobility and intermodality[1]

Inland waterways:

  • Austria
  • Romania

Rail, road and air:

  • Slovenia
  • Serbia
  • (Interest: Ukraine)

2) To encourage more sustainable energy

Hungary

Czech Republic

3) To promote culture and tourism, people to people contacts

Bulgaria

Romania

4) To restore and maintain the quality of waters

Hungary

Slovakia

5) To manage environmental risks

Hungary

Romania

6) To preserve biodiversity, landscapes and the quality of air and soils

Germany (Bavaria)

Croatia

7) To develop the knowledge society (research, education and ICT)

Slovakia

Serbia

8) To support the competitiveness of enterprises

Germany (Baden-Württemberg)

Croatia

9) To invest in people and skills

Austria

Moldova

10) To step up institutional capacity and cooperation

Austria (Vienna)

Slovenia

11) To work together to tackle security and organised crime

Germany

Bulgaria

Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro can also be involved as appropriate.

  1. An overall coordination for this priority area needs also to be ensured.

 

source: http://www.interact-eu.net