INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT FOR REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND POVERTY ERADICATION continued Regulate for minimum levels of safety and security By 2005 By 2004 By 2004 By 2004 Promote port security and the security of cargo containers Promote harmonised driver training and testing Promote harmonised vehicle testing systems By 2005 Promote maritime safety on basis of IMO conventions, air safety using ICAO SARPs. Implement competition rules for air transport services, ports, railways and road transport Develop rules of competition between and within different modes of transport By 2004 By 2006 TIME FRAMES Adopted common training and testing manuals Competition rules agreed to by Member States and annexed to relevant protocols Economic entry and exit into the transport markets Concessions and privatisation are core of infrastructure strategy, governments play role of regulator as necessary INDICATORS Member States, SADC Member States, SADC Member States, private sector, SADC RESPONSIBILITY A F R I C A N To promote safe and secure transport operations Liberalise air transport services on basis of Yamoussoukro Decision, road transport on basis of multilateral agreement and provide for cabotage in coastal shipping services Encourage concessioning in roads, railways, civil aviation and maritime transport provision Promote concessioning as a strategy for involving the private sector in transport infrastructure provision Extensive regional liberalisation with abolition of restrictions on carriers of a member state to carry goods between points in second and third Member States. MEASURES STRATEGIES S O U T H E R N To liberalise regional transport markets OBJECTIVES c) TRANSPORT PRIORITY INTERVENTION AREA: Infrastructure Support for Regional Integration and Poverty Eradication GOAL: To ensure the availability of a sufficient, integrated, efficient and cost effective infrastructure system that will support and sustain regional economic development, trade and investment for poverty alleviation TABLE 4.11 1 2 6 D E V E L O P M E N T C O M M U N I T Y