| NAIADES explained
 At the start of 2006, the European Commission set out a multi-annual action programme to foster transport by inland waterways in Europe as a contribution to Europe’s strategy for growth and employment. The Council of EU transport ministers adopted the plan in June 2006, and the European Parliament in October 2006.
Three years later, a lot has happened. New EU harmonisation legislation is undertaken, a EU coordinator helps to get the waterway infrastructure projects of the trans-European priorities on course, a EU handbook on national funding is available to orient firms in their quest for tailor-made financial assistance and all barriers to the development of waterfreight have been mapped in order to define priorities for further political action.
Member States set up programmes in their countries to support waterfreight in order to keep the entire transport system flowing. A number of Member States developed national action plans. Others will hopefully follow.
But more remains to be done to ensure NAIADES becomes a real success. The communication shows that preparations are well on course, but the measures that make the difference now have to be implemented.
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The NAIADES programme provides a genuine toolbox to unlock the potential of inland navigation. Replacing the cut and paste measures of the past, the European Commission has now presented a coherent strategy which truly aims at bolstering the advantages of inland waterway transport and tackles a number of obstacles that hamper its current development.
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