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Priority Area Coordinators

Below you can find the list of priority area coordinators (PACs) designated by Commissioner Hahn in February 2011. PACs are in charge of implementing the eleven priority areas of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region.More information on the Priority Areas and activities of the Strategy can be found at www.danube-region.eu.

Priority Area	Countries
1) To improve mobility and intermodality ^[1]	Inland waterways: Austria Romania Rail, road and air: Slovenia Serbia
2) To encourage more sustainable energy	Hungary Czech Republic
3) To promote culture and tourism, people to people contacts	Bulgaria Romania
4) To restore and maintain the quality of waters	Hungary Slovakia
5) To manage environmental risks	Hungary Romania
6) To preserve biodiversity, landscapes and the quality of air and soils	Germany (Bavaria) Croatia
7) To develop the knowledge society (research, education and ICT)	Slovakia Serbia
8) To support the competitiveness of enterprises	Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Croatia
9) To invest in people and skills	Austria Moldova
10) To step up institutional capacity and cooperation	Austria (Vienna) Slovenia
11) To work together to tackle security and organised crime	Germany Bulgaria