Maria Garayo Maiztegui - Municipalities of Chaves and Verín, PT-ES

The Advice Case “Launch of a regular passenger transport, with cabotage, between Chaves and Verín” submitted by the Municipalities of Chaves and Verín (ES-PT) under the initiative b-solutions received consultancy by the expert Maria Garayo Maiztegui.

The Eurocity Chaves- Verín wants to improve the cross-border mobility through the implementation of a regular passenger transport service.

Garayo’s investigation shows that the project is prevented by:

• the lack of legal competence of the municipalities in the field of public passenger transport provision;
• the absence of the concept of cross-border transport in the national law of both countries;
• the rules on “cabotage” operations included in Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009.

To overcome these hurdles, the expert proposes the following solutions:

• the definition, agreement and legal formalisation of the cross-border project by the relevant transport authorities  and signing of a cross-border agreement on the basis of already existing provisions;
• the adaptation of the project to international passenger transport regulations.

To know more about Maria Garayo Maitzegui’s full analysis access the final report here.

The information here provided have been developed in the framework of b-solutions, an initiative of the European Comission’s DG REGIO managed by the Association of the European Border Regions (AEBR).

The reports here included are the result of a consultation provided by legal/cross-border cooperation experts on obstacles of a legal or administrative nature– referred to as Advice Cases - selected in the framework of the II Call for Porposal of the initiative b-solutions.