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National policies

The economic policy efforts of the Ministry of Economy and Transport (GKM) are focused on creating and supporting conditions for rapid and balanced growth and convergence of the Hungarian economy. In 2004, the Hungarian Parliament passed the new Hungarian transport policy for the period from 2003 to 2015. This is in harmony with the common transport policy of the European Union, and highlights the direction for the development of transport in Hungary up to 2015. The aims of the Hungarian transport policy are to create a transport system which is economically efficient, modern, safe, increasingly friendly to the environment, and meets the requirements of society.

The Shipping Division contributes to the more efficient usage of the economic resources by the development of the shipping infrastructure and technologies and to the protection of the natural and built environment. The opening of the waterway tourism provides the possibilities for the people to meet the Hungarian natural and cultural values. The creation of the possibilities is carried out for the ship building industry to increase the professional reputation. The availability of the maritime connections and maritime transport services in proper quality belongs to the priority of the activities. By the development of the ports Hungary can become a logistical service centre in the Central-European area. An intention is to increase the social support of the environment friendly waterway transport.

Priority areas

The main tasks of Shipping Division are the following:

define the technical and security regulations of the inland and maritime navigation
definition of the requirements of skipper and sailor certificates, creation of framework conditions of the training
management of the development of shipping infrastructure and technology
elaboration of the operational framework conditions of port economy and ship building
Analysis and development of market conditions of the economical activities belonging to the waterway transport

Funding organisations

Ministry of Economy and Transport

Most tasks concerning macroeconomic policy, regulation and analysis within the Ministry belong to the Economics Department, which operates in the framework of Deputy State Secretariat for Economic Co-ordination and Finance. The Ministry of Economy and Transport represents Hungary in international meetings, is responsible for the development and maintenance of national public ports and cooperates with other ministries in issues related to inland navigation.

The General Inspectorate of Transport

is structured in General Director - Deputy General Director -Department for Road, Rail and Waterway Transport - Inland Navigation and Maritime Department. Responsibilities are mainly in administration of waterways, the registers crew's professional examination and certification, issues national technical regulations for construction, maintenance and repair of Ships, search and rescue operations for people, vessels in danger in national territorial waterways, controls the pollution caused by vessels sailing on the national waterways, issues various licenses to Hungarian skippers, issues or revokes the right to sail under Hungarian flag, supervises and controls vessel traffic on Hungarian waterways and ports, investigates navigation incidents, issues notices to skippers, plans setting of traffic signs.

Programme information

There is no information on maritime research programmes available of Hungary. On the internet page of the Ministry of Economy and Transport are some information available under the headline infrastructure (e.g. Transport Infrastructure Development in Hungary; Hungarian intermodal logistics development conception).

Contact Point

Ministry of Economy and Transport:
H-1055 Budapest, Honvéd u. 13-15.
Tel: +36-1-374-2700
Tel: +36 1 475-34-34
Fax: + 36 1 475 34-35
Email: ugyfelszolgalat@gkm.gov.hu
URL:

en.gkm.gov.hu

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