ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the policy regime that the European Union (EU) has created for the transport sector. Some significant aspects of the development of the sector, such as production capacity, employment and firm size. All the national market-control schemes pushed up the costs for the users of transport services. If the objectives of the treaty were to be realised, national government interventions had to be partly harmonised and partly abolished. The external dimension of the EU internal transport market is based to a very limited extent on common European rules; much is still dependent on bilateral deals of member states with third countries. The European transport market has for a long time been very heavily regulated on a national basis and therefore much fragmented. Rulings of the Court have obliged the Council to work out a common transport policy along the same liberal lines that obtain for the rest of the economy.
