Change low graphic options | Skip content to navigation
Page context: ETF Home > Urban Public Transport
Specific ETF activities on urban public passenger transport started in 2000 with the European Commission's proposal for a Regulation on Public Service Obligations in Passenger Transport, which introduced obligatory competitive tendering of all public passenger transport services which were publicly funded or benefit from exclusive rights. The ETF Sections involved - road and rail - concluded the following principles, which have laid the framework for ETF work ever since: Public authorities must be able to decide independently on how to organise public passenger transport; Where public passenger transport is subject to competitive tender, the authorities have to apply quality criteria including social criteria: Public transport workers must be fully protected in the case of change of transport operator.
07 Jan 2010
Consultation on Future Transport Policy - ETF response
The European Commission has launched a consultation process preceding the adoption in 2010 of a White Paper on the Future Transport Policy for the next decade up to 2020. The ETF response can be found here.
23 Jan 2007
Joint ETF-UITP statement on the upcoming Green Paper on Urban Mobility
The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and the International Association of Public Transport-European Union Committee (UITP) launched today a common statement on urban mobility as the European Commission steps up the release of its Green...
04 May 2006
European Action Day of Public Transport Workers, 5 May 2006
The European Transport Workers’ Federation calls for a European Action Day for public transport on 5 May 2006. In 12 EU Member States, public transport trade unions will inform bus, tram, metro and railway workers as well as the users of public...
08 Dec 2005
New deputy general secretary
We are pleased to inform that the ETF Executive Committee on 22-23 November 2005 in Brussels, appointed Sabine TRIER as Deputy General Secretary of the ETF. She will keep the responsibility for the ETF Railways’ Section and the Urban Transport...
Section home:
Urban Public Transport
Other pages for Urban Public Transport:
URBAN MOBILITY - Green Paper | Position Papers | Social Dialogue
Main Sections:
ETF Home | Civil aviation | Dockers | Fisheries | Inland Waterways | Logistics | Maritime Transport | Railways | Road transport | Tourism | Urban Public Transport | TRUST | Document library
About us/contact | Vacancies | Links
accessibility | site help | site map
Galerie AGORA, Rue du Marché aux Herbes 105, Boîte 11 B - 1000 Bruxelles | +32 2 285 46 60 | etf@etf-europe.org