Meeting with Torsten Klimke (Head of Unit Mobility and Transport) and 3 other interest representatives

19 Sept 2025 · Regular courtesy visit of the Inland Waterway (IWT) sector to the Head of Unit in charge of IWT

Response to European Strategy for Sustainable Tourism 2050 - Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the EU Tourism Strategy

10 Sept 2025

Response to Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on a “Sustainable Transport Investment Plan”

18 Aug 2025

Response to Legislative initiative enabling the development of competitive CO2 markets and CO2 transportation infrastructure.

13 Aug 2025

Response to Communication of the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions – Towards a comprehensive European Ports Strategy

28 Jul 2025

Response to Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council “EU Industrial Maritime Strategy”

28 Jul 2025

Meeting with Polona Gregorin (Head of Unit Climate Action) and European Federation of Inland Ports

2 Jul 2025 · General discussion on the challenges inland waterway transport faces on its path to decarbonization.

Meeting with Apostolos Tzitzikostas (Commissioner) and 25 other attendees

1 Jul 2025 · Strategic Dialogue on the EU Industrial Maritime Strategy

Meeting with Apostolos Tzitzikostas (Commissioner) and 20 other attendees

1 Jul 2025 · Strategic Dialogue on the EU Port Strategy

Meeting with Stéphane Séjourné (Executive Vice-President) and 21 other attendees

1 Jul 2025 · EU Strategic Dialogue on the EU Industrial Maritime Strategy.

Meeting with Tom Berendsen (Member of the European Parliament) and Koninklijke Binnenvaart Nederland

20 Mar 2025 · Inland navigation

Meeting with Anne Bergenfelt (Cabinet of Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas)

3 Mar 2025 · Courtesy visit of the Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) sector to Cab member in charge of IWT

Response to European Water Resilience Strategy

25 Feb 2025

Meeting with Jan-Christoph Oetjen (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Feb 2025 · General exchange on current shipping topics

Response to Single Market Strategy 2025

30 Jan 2025

Meeting with Jens Gieseke (Member of the European Parliament) and 4 other interest representatives

28 Jan 2025 · Austausch zu EU Politik

Meeting with Fotini Ioannidou (Director Mobility and Transport) and 4 other attendees

16 Jan 2025 · Courtesy visit of the Inland Waterway (IWT) sector to the new MOVE director and Head of Unit in charge of IWT

Response to Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the interim evaluation of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) 2021-2027

24 Sept 2024

Meeting with Kris Van Dijck (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Inland Navigation Europe

24 Sept 2024 · River Information Services

Meeting with Sophia Kircher (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Sept 2024 · River Information Services

Meeting with Tom Berendsen (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Inland Navigation Europe

10 Sept 2024 · River information systems

Response to The Commission is revising State aid rules applicable to sustainable land transport through the adoption of revised Railway Guidelines and a new Transport Block Exemption Regulation (‘TBER’). The TBER should enable Member States to grant least distortive forms of aid that contribute to a modal shift towards sustainable land transport, in line with the European Green Deal, without prior notification. Together, the TBER and the revised Railway Guidelines should constitute a comprehensive and simplified rulebook for State aid law in the field of sustainable land transport.

28 Mar 2024

Meeting with Filip Alexandru Negreanu Arboreanu (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean), Roxana Lesovici (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean)

7 Nov 2023 · Solidarity lanes and infrastructure improvement, both fairway and ports Modal Shift and CTD Dredging in taxonomy IWW Speakers CED plenaries EP Port report

Response to Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council for crewing requirements for inland waterway transport

10 Jul 2023

Response to COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 as regards additional technical screening criteria for determining the conditions under which certain economic activities qualify as contributing substantially to climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation and for determining whether those activities cause no significant harm to any of the other environmental objectives

3 May 2023

Response to Evaluation of Commission Regulation (EC) No 906/2009 of 28 September 2009 on the application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty to certain categories of agreements, decisions and concerted practices between liner shipping companies (consortia)

3 Oct 2022

Meeting with Pablo Fabregas Martinez (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean)

20 Sept 2022 · transport

Response to Amended proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Union guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network, amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1153 and Regulation (EU) No 913/2020 and repealing Regulation (EU) 1315/2013

14 Jul 2022

Meeting with Dominique Riquet (Member of the European Parliament) and European Federation of Inland Ports

21 Jun 2022 · Infrastructures de transport

Response to Revision of Directive 2005/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on harmonised river information services (RIS) on inland waterways in the Community

13 Sept 2021

Response to Proposal for revision for the DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the establishment of common rules for certain types of combined transport of goods between Member States (92/106/EEC)

7 Sept 2021

Meeting with Daniel Mes (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

21 Jun 2021 · Keynote speech on inland waterway transport to deliver the European Green Deal

Response to Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Directive (EU) 2017/2397 as regards the transitional measures for the recognition of third countries certificates

19 Apr 2021

Meeting with Rachel Smit (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean)

22 Mar 2021 · Introductory meeting between Cabinet and EBU to present EBU and give more detail on the upcoming EBU event.

Response to Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the Naiades III action plan for Inland Navigation

14 Jan 2021

Response to COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... supplementing Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing the technical screening criteria for determining the conditions under which an economic activity qualifies as contributing substantially to climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation and for determining whether that economic activity causes no significant harm to any of the other environmental objectives

15 Dec 2020

Meeting with Stefanie Hiesinger (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

27 Oct 2020 · The position of the European Inland Navigation sector on the public consultation for the FuelEU maritime initiative and the sector’s contribution on delivering the European Green Deal.

Meeting with Daniel Mes (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

14 Oct 2020 · Inland waterways and Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy

Response to Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the EU Strategy for a Sustainable and Smart Mobility

24 Jul 2020

Meeting with Roxana Lesovici (Cabinet of Commissioner Adina Vălean)

9 Jun 2020 · Recovery and European Green deal

Meeting with Diederik Samsom (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and European Skippers Organisation - vzw

4 Feb 2020 · European Green Deal

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

16 Oct 2019 · Exchange on EU’s policy on inland waterways

Response to COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... on the European Hull Data Base

23 Sept 2019

Response to Fitness check of legislation related to access to the internal market in the field of inland waterway transport

26 Aug 2019

Meeting with Alisa Tiganj (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

5 Mar 2018 · short video clip on the occasion of the 8th of March

Meeting with Alisa Tiganj (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

6 Feb 2018 · IWT topics

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

17 Oct 2016 · IWT

Meeting with Desiree Oen (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc) and Inland Navigation Europe

21 Apr 2016 · TEN-T Days 2016

Meeting with Violeta Bulc (Commissioner) and 4 other attendees

24 Feb 2016 · Meeting with sectpr representatives of Inland Waterways Europe (IWW)

Meeting with Desiree Oen (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc) and Inland Navigation Europe

23 Apr 2015 · Inland waterways

Meeting with Violeta Bulc (Commissioner)

3 Mar 2015 · Opening remarks: EBU Conference