TINA PROCESS

Technical Assistance to Transportation Infrastructure Needs Assessment for Turkey

The first Structured Dialogue between the Transport Council of the EU and the Transport Ministers of the associated countries, in September 1995, recommended inter alia undertaking Transport Infrastructure Needs Assessment (TINA) for the candidate countries for accession.

In July 1996, the European Parliament and Council adopted, based on Article 155 of the Treaty, a Decisionon Guidelines for the development of the Trans-European Transport Network. 

 This contains outline plans for the land transport networks and criteria for network nodes such as airports or seaports. The Guidelines constitute a declaration of intent by the Union for the development of a single multi-modal transport network to meet the needs of the transport sector.

In April 1997, the European Commission proposed a structure for European transport networks serving the entire continent to the Third Pan-European Transport Conference at Helsinki 1997, in which the Trans-European Transport Network of the European Union, and its extension to the future new members plays a prominent role (COM 97(172)). This structure was eventually included into the declaration of the Helsinki Conference.On the basis of this environment, the Commission launched the TINA process, with a view to defining the future Trans-European Transport Infrastructure Network in the enlarged European Union, using the criteria of Decision 1692/96/EC. The Commission has throughout ensured that this multilateral process remained
consistent with the overall Pre-Accession Strategy, notably the Accession Partnerships and the NationalProgrammes for the Adoption of the Acquis.

The TINA process was designed to initiate the development of a multi-modal transport network within the territory of the candidate countries for accession: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Cyprus. The work was completed in November 1999.

The defined network, or the TINA Network, has thereafter been the basis of the discussion for the future extension of the TEN, and its financing. This network development complies with the principles, objectives and criteria as set out in the Guidelines for the development of a Trans-European Transport Network in the territory of the European Union (Decision 1692/96/EC).

Although the TINA process commenced in 1996 and Turkey was at that time not one of the candidate countries selected for the participation, the integration of Turkey into European Transport networks is considered to be vital from regional, social and economic perspective.

The extension of the TINA process to Turkey is to assess the transport infrastructure of Turkey in relation to the provisions of the TINA network in the other acceded countries, and the TEN Guideline (European Parliament and Council Decisions 1692/96, 1346/2001 and 884/2004).

 This project first intends to identify the transport network that can be considered as the basis for the future extension of the Trans-Europeantransport network in Turkey.

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