The blue economy covers a range of traditional and emerging sectors that are essential sources of food, energy, health and leisure for people throughout the world. The blue economy is growing fast and attracting investment worldwide. However, businesses often remain unsustainable. Illegal fishin...
The implementation of the Cohesion policy funds through operational programmes entails a number of activities, which generate costs by the Commission, Member States and beneficiaries. We examined whether the Commission’s and Member States’ costs of implementing Cohesion policy funds are comparab...
As a starting point, it is important to remind the underlying philosophy of development of the business case. When the work started in 2015, many different opinions could be met on ERTMS, based on the experience of each and every stakeholder on his scope of work. But as nobody was willing to sha...
The transition to a circular economy is at an early stage in the EU. Regulations, markets, investment tools and practices, including financial risk assessment, are adjusted to linear models. Externalities linked to linear business models are largely not taken into account. This poses a problem f...
The ERTMS business case analysis carried out by the Deployment Management Team and published in 2019 demonstrated that the best deployment strategy for ERTMS at corridor level is the dual on-board strategy. This is also mirrored by analysis at national level, such as Austria, Czech Republic and ...
This report provides a summary of the Advisory Hub’s activities in 2018 and a number of case studies of investment projects supported by the Hub in the reporting year....
