IPA PP1 - Ministry of Public Works and Transport, Albania
Mission of MPWTT
The Mission of the Ministry of Public Works and
Transport of Albania is: formulation, application and
monitoring of the policies, programs, norms and national standards
of road infrastructure, transports, public services, space and
housing planning, with ascertainment aim of a sustainable
development and promotion for private investments and economic
growth, considering used sources available in manner with
productivity, effective and direct.
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport is
the institution in charge of the:
- Road transport activity, which deals with
drafting the policies of road transport (introduction to the
transport market of the transport operators for goods and
passengers) and regulatory functions (licenses of urban, interurban
and international transport of passengers and transport of
goods).
The main policies in this spectrum are characterised by the
following:
- The establishment of a legal and regulatory framework pursuant
the European standards and requests which has to insure the
facilitation of transporters entrance in the market, optimum
operations for the transport services based on a high level
competency as well as the reduction of non-physical barriers. In
addition, the policy shall focus on the enhancement of the
legislation for avoiding the unfair competition, as well as the
rigid implementation of the bilateral and multilateral agreements
dealing with Road Transport.
- Application of the reciprocity principle in achieving the
commercialisation of the road transport and the issuance of the
unlimited right for transit transport of other countries through
Albania. The adoption (on 01 Dec 2006) of the Temporary Agreement
on Trade and Commercial Cooperation between the European Community
on one side and the Republic of Albania on the other side has led
to the liberalisation of the transit transport with the other EU
countries.
- Implementation of the programme related to the weights and
dimensions, the controls on the side of the road, through the
Albanian legislation approximation to the EU one. In this way,
Albania agrees that the road vehicles which meet the EU standards
as regards the weights and dimension may travel without problem in
the regional roads infrastructure network. The vehicles that do not
meet the existing Albanian standards (vehicles in exceed of the
weights and border gabarite defined limits) may be subject to an
extra non-discriminatory tax, which reflects the caused damage by
the extra weight on the axis.
- Approximation of the legislation related to the roads transport
staff training, especially the ones related directly to the
hazardous goods as defined by the EU standards.
- Road Safety and its component elements
Sectorial policies in the field of road safety, aiming at
increasing the life and health protection services through the
prevention and minimisation of the roads accidents, shall follow
the below listed actions:
- Enforcement of the necessary legal amendments in order to
ensure a better traffic management and increase of road safety.
Such amendments shall be represented by the Albanian legislation
approximation with the European one;
- Improvement of the roads and road signs conditions, in
compliance with the European standards;
- Implementation of the roads safety auditing procedures for the
road safety elements integration from the very early stages of
design to the final implementation;
- Enhancement of traffic discipline and management of vehicle
speeds;
- Issuance of driving license through a better quality teaching
and testing of the candidates to drive;
- Increase of the vehicles technical inspection quality, through
assignation with concession the vehicle technical check
points;
- Public education of the traffic rules including all ages,
especially the school pupils;
- Maritime Transport: transportation of
passengers and goods internal/domestic transportation (cabotage),
touristic and sports' navigation, monitoring of maritime traffic
and hydrograph/surveillance.
The strategy of the Albanian Maritime Transport aims at:
- Creating, reorganising of the Maritime Administrate
Institutions as well as capacity increasing in compliance with the
European standards;
- Cooperating with powerful business operator based on the
public-private sector partnership for the modernisation of the
Maritime Ports as well as creating the Maritime lines for
increasing the goods transport for both import-export and
transiting;
- Initiating the actions to ensure the improvement of technical
standards and management levels of the Albanian fleet;
- Reviving the internal Maritime transport especially the
passengers transport;
- Increasing the Albanian ships classifying standards and
levels;
- Encouraging the international tourism sailing, with Maritime
sport means and sail boats
- Railway transport
The policies to meet objectives. In the framework of the
defined strategy and policy, the following objectives are to be met
during the mid-term plan:
- Studying of the Community Legislation with regard to railway
transport;
- Implementation of the conducted study on the arrangements for
the passengers transport units, the goods transport business units,
infrastructure management and maintenance business unit and the
railway means services unit;
- Participation in the working groups conducting the study "On
the establishment of the High Performance regional railway
network";
- Application of the National Transport Plan conclusions and
recommendations on the railway transport;
- Improvement of the services to passengers in the railway line
Tirana - Durres;
- Prioritisation of the concessionary options for interested
foreign companies.
All legal initiative, studies and reforms to be undertaken shall
comply with the respective European legislation.
- Air transport
The main policies in the Air Transport aim at:
- Creating a unique operational and legal infrastructure on both
national and regional levels through efficient application of
aero-portal legislation and projects in order to ensure the
increase in the movement capacities and in finding the efficient
methods for private capitals attraction. A special importance shall
be given to the rigid implementation of the legal obligations
deriving from the adherence to the Air Transport International
Conventions and Agreements.
- Creating a competitive, non-discriminatory, liberalised market
for air transport operation services with the goal to increase the
fee movement of goods and passengers.
- Optimising the useful transport elements such as the movement
speed and commodity through the liberalisation and the increase of
processing capacities in the "Mother Teresa" Tirana International
Airport, as well as modernising the air traffic administration
through the Air Traffic Master Plan application.
- Implementing the Rinas Airport Concessionaire Contract that
started in 2005.
- Approximating to the international safety and security
standards through the compilation of the respective national
documentation for the safety and security in the civil aviation,
practical application of the documents that regulate the aviation
safety procedures as well as the establishment of the "Aviation
Electronic Library" for maintaining all the aviation related
services information and documentations.
Contact persons
- Ms. Rovena Muzhaqi
Director, Directorate of Integration and Project Management
Tel. +355 4 22380734
Fax +355 4 2258323
E-mail: rmuzhaqi@mpptt.gov.al
- Mr. Ervin Minarolli
General Director, Directorate of Policy and planning on transport and telecommunications
E-mail: eminarolli@mpptt.gov.al
- Mr. Arjan Budo
Directorate of Road Transport Policies
Tel. +355 (0) 4 2232320
Fax +355 (0) 4 2227945
E-mail: arjan.budo@mppt.gov.al
- Mr. Kujtim Hashorva
Director of Road Transport Policies, Ministry of Public Works and Transport of Albania
Tel. +355 4 2258318
E-mail: khashorva@mpptt.gvo.al