Between 28/03/2018 and 21/06/2018 five national workshops took place in five partner countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia), focusing on port legislation & state aid schemes, giving the opportunity to the national stakeholders to have discussions on the basis of the draft national reports elaborated in the frame of DAPhNE project.

Representatives of cargo ports, shipping authorities, ministries and external experts of inland navigation and port development discussed challenges to be improved in the fields of regulations, administration, operational rules, other business activities, environmental issues, ecological facilitators in ports, as well as challenges to be improved in the fields of general block exemption regulation (GBER), de minimis, local infrastructure development, programs directly focusing on port development and these instruments’ potential beneficiaries and eligibility criteria.

The input received at the national workshops have been structured into centralized documents which can be used at regional level. The port legislation recommendations and the state-aid model incorporated the comments & suggestions received from the target groups. The outputs are reliable & have the buy-in of the target groups. These recommendations constitute an important output of DAPhNE project.

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