Progress Report 4

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Support to the Integration of Ukraine in the Trans-European Transport Network TEN-T 4th Progress Report Maritime and River - In the Maritime sector the difficulties in data collection continued to hinder the efficient progress of activities in line with the planned schedule. The improved cooperation with the Maritime Department of the MoTC, as reported in Progress Report 2, did not result in operational benefits but with the appointment of a new Head of Section in June 2010, we are again encouraged that good progress will be made although it has proved difficult to arrange meetings. The draft report proposing a “Maritime and River Sector Strategy” published in June 2009 did not elicit comments until November 2009 and even then were of minimal content. Notwithstanding the many setbacks, the project team has continued to develop its own close contacts with the sector professionals, both in the public and private sector, which has enabled the team to gain first-hand knowledge and obtain information concerning the day-to-day functioning of the river and maritime transport. This has been instrumental in allowing the maritime component of the project to make progress. The work on defining development planning scenarios for the maritime sector and the evaluation of the traffic forecasts, prepared by the EU funded “Ukraine Port Feasibility Study” has been completed. The results were documented in Working Paper 5.1, which forms a part of the “Maritime Policy Reform and Action Plan paper”. The concept of “Landlord Ports” and “Port Clusters” are under discussion and recent published reports from the sector seem to indicate acceptance of the concept. All of these issues will be compiled into a comprehensive Port Management Plan, to be produced as Interim Report 5.2. In addition to simplify the assimilation of the information two training sessions were conducted in March 2010 on Maritime and River transport and were very well received with some 20 participants at each day selected by MoTC, but no senior decision makers attended. To aid the introduction of the new personnel it was decided to draft two brief Interim Reports that summarise the proposed Maritime and River Strategy. The Ports report is in for translation and the River report will be ready early September 2010 to assist the new head of section appointed in June 2010. Road Transport – Due to changes in personnel in the MoTC, during this period the road transport working group met once on 7 th June 2010 but other meetings were held to discuss the specific issues such as training and legislation. Regular meetings have also been held with AsMAP (representing the international road freight carriers) concerning training and the provision of visas for international commercial vehicle drivers, at the request of the MoTC in May 2010. Cross Cutting - The revised Interim Report 7.1 that now includes border crossing issues has been completed following site visits to all of the EU TEN road and rail border crossings. This report was translated and published in July 2010, thus comments have not yet been received. A summary is attached as Appendix 2. A meeting to discuss the report with senior border guards in Kiev was postponed but all the authorities at the borders were very helpful not only in arranging the visits but ensuring the Consultants obtained a comprehensive understanding of the core issues at each of the selected border crossings. The site visits were organised in two programmes due to the disruption to air travel by the Icelandic volcano. This part of WP7 is now complete subject to a presentation to border authorities and any further discussions on the contents of the report. Infrastructure Investments – Under work packages 1 and 8, the list of 235 transport investment projects provided by the MoTC, along with many other projects put forward by transport subsectors, has been placed in the database pending their evaluation and prioritisation. In their present form there is insufficient information about individual projects to fully evaluate them as seldom are pre-feasibility studies made. A revised investment project list is thought to be planned that would be generated by 4
Support to the Integration of Ukraine in the Trans-European Transport Network TEN-T 4th Progress Report the Working Group established by the Foundation for Effective Government, working for the President, to which we have been invited to cooperate. The need for creating the skills in the transport sector to undertake such pre-feasibility analysis is now agreed and a pilot training programme, originally proposed by the project in November 2009, was run in March 2010 for the MoTC’s investment team and other selected personnel. This training was well received and was repeated in April 2010 with the intention of monthly updates to continue throughout the project. Unfortunately not all the original team have been able to attend each session and there was no representative from MoTC at the last session although the date had been specified by them. Once again the level of authority of the participants was lower that expected and they were not decision makers – although hopefully they will be in future. A plan to reproduce the training in Odessa is under consideration for Period 5. Other projects aimed at facilitating trade flows will be added to the database as they are identified by the project, as well as the four strategic transport projects identified as a result of the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers called: “On investment projects of strategic importance for economic development of the country”, (Number 1432-r dated 7 Oct 2009 and rendered to the government of Ukraine on 23 Dec 2009). Training - In June 2010 the former head of HR MoTC was reinstated as the deputy head and meetings are scheduled to re-establish the new MoTC HR policy starting in August 2010. The project has provided practical on-the-job training through the Working Group meetings, SAA workshops and conferences and regular meetings with the stakeholders since June 2009. It is hoped that with the new initiatives proposed by the Minister the training schedule and participant seniority will be improved. The TEN-T website (www.ten-t.org.ua) is now fully operational and all MoTC approved reports are available for anyone to access them. The website incorporates the website of the “Accession and Implementation by the Ukraine of International Agreements and Conventions on Transport”. In addition the TEN-T project established a series of files on the office network server to record all documents translated in English and Ukrainian including legal text that was provided to the international experts. In particular a Legislative Database was created but this remains independent from the website of the “Accession and Implementation by the Ukraine of International Agreements and Conventions on Transport” as it contains working documents of some 187 pages. Some documents were translated using a computer software and others done by a translator but none have been reviewed by a legal translator. The links to the websites where the original text in Ukrainian was obtained are shown. This work will be updated in Period 5 when the latest version of the Association Agreement is available we will review the updates needed. The deliverables from work packages were restructured in the 2 nd Progress Report and referred to as “Interim Reports” to provide a more rational structure for deliverables. The table of Interim Reports and their status is included in Appendix G. In line with the proposed structure, the following reports have been submitted as part of the project’s progress reports and circulated to the relevant personnel including the heads of departments at the MoTC: 1. Policy 1.1 Institution and Legislation 1.2 Transport Statistics 1.3 Integrated Transport Policy 2. Railways 2.1 High speed passenger services 2.2a Railway Competition 2.2 b Railway Interoperability 2.3 Railway restructuring vs. existing organisation in Ukraine 2.4 Railway restructuring in Europe 3. Roads Infrastructure 3.1 Construction Standards 5
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