carry out private transportation services | supply personalised transportation services | provide private transport services | supply individual transportation services

non commercial private transport operations

It applies to all companies established in the EU that are active in (or intending to be active in) transporting goods or people in exchange for payment.

These include, above all, the freedom given to competent authorities under Article 5(2) to decide for themselves whether they offer transport services using their own companies (with their ‘internal operators’), or whether they put them out to tender.

Considers that keeping citizens active and productive after retirement is, among other things, in the economic interest of Europe and that the loss of their expertise can be mitigated by encouraging senior citizens to remain active through looser structures and networks based on their civic engagement and by linking them with economic actors and academia; believes that SMEs could profit most from a network of informal structures such as this, which could be consulted, as most SMEs find it hard to afford these services from the consultancies active in the economy; points out that knowledge accumulated by senior citizens must be circulat ...[+++]ed for the benefit of all by the establishment of a network at EU level;

204. Considers that keeping citizens active and productive after retirement is, among other things, in the economic interest of Europe and that the loss of their expertise can be mitigated by encouraging senior citizens to remain active through looser structures and networks based on their civic engagement and by linking them with economic actors and academia; believes that SMEs could profit most from a network of informal structures such as this, which could be consulted, as most SMEs find it hard to afford these services from the consultancies active in the economy; points out that knowledge accumulated by senior citizens must be cir ...[+++]culated for the benefit of all by the establishment of a network at EU level;