The Common EU Maritime Transport Policy
Subtitle: Policy Europeanisation in the 1990s (Transport and Mobility)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780754619130
Subjects: EU transport law; Shipping industries; EU (European Union); General; Transportation; Economic integration; Europe; European Union countries; Government policy; Shipping
Description: During the 1990s there were two major developments to the Common EU Maritime Transport Policy (CMTP): the establishment of European Union policies on safe seas and on shortsea shipping respectively.  This book critically analyzes and appraises these and other developments to the CMTP in  his period, while also studying policy Europeanization.  It focuses on both the economic environment of maritime transport and the interaction of policy makers and organized interests during the policy-making process, with an emphasis on the political dimensions.  By developing an innovative economic model, the book examines the ways in which governmental and non-governmental policy makers and their ideas interact within the EU's structure and dynamics, and shows how these factors account for why, when and how the specific common EU policy has developed.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene; European integration and policy actors; CMTP and policy actors: a historical perspective; Maritime safety: critical aspects of the new economic context; The establishment of a common policy on safe seas; Safe seas: developing a common policy against all odds; The new economic environment of European shortsea shipping; Towards a common policy on shortsea shipping; Shortsea shipping: policy actors, process, outcome; Policy Europeanisation in retrospect; Bibliography.