Consultation period: 17 December 2021 - 11 March 2022  (midnight Brussels time)

The Europеan Commission is assessing several pieces of legislation on the access and functioning of the inland waterways transport market. The assessment should help determine whether the legislation is fit-for-purpose and whether it supports the smooth and fair functioning of the internal market. The public consultation is being carried out to gather the views and input of stakeholders. and is available on the following link:  https://europa.eu/!7WPcuF [1].

The team working on the support study (Ecorys (lead), STC Nestra and Tournaye Consulting) has launched an online survey targeted at Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), which will stay open till 11 March 2022. The results of this consultation will also feed into the same Fitness Check evaluation exercise. The SME survey is available in nine languages (the languages of the Danube and Rhine basins in addition to English), to which you can find the links in the table below:

Language versions      

English: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/SMEsurveyEN [2]

Bulgarian: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/SMEsurveyBG [3]

Dutch: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/SMEsurveyNL [4]

Croatian: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/SMEsurveyHR [5]

French: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/SMRsurveyFR [6]

German: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/SMEsurveyDE [7]

Hungarian: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/SMEsurveyHU [8]

Romanian: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/SMEsurveyRO [9]

Slovak: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/SMEsurveySK [10]