Transport
Article 100
1. In addition to the provisions of Article 58 and Protocol 6 of this Agreement, the Parties shall develop and step up cooperation in the field of transport in order to enable Croatia to: — restructure and modernise transport and related infrastructure; — improve movement of passengers and goods and access to the transport market, by the removing of administrative, technical and other barriers; — achieve operating standards comparable to those in the Community; — develop a transport system compatible and aligned on the Community system; — improve the protection of environment in transport, reduction of harmful effects and pollution. 2. Cooperation shall include the following priority areas: — the development of road, rail, airport, inland waterways and port infrastructure and other major routes of common interest and Trans-European and Pan-European links; — the management of railways and airports, including appropriate cooperation between the relevant national authorities; — road transport, including road taxes and charges and social and environmental aspects; — combined rail and road transport; — the harmonisation of international transport statistics; — the modernisation of technical transport equipment in line with Community standards, and assistance in acquiring financing to that end, particularly as regards road-rail transport, multimodal transport and transhipment; — the promotion of joint technological and research programmes; — the adoption of coordinated transport policies that are compatible with those applied in the Community.