South East Europe (SEE ) is a region of high importance for the European Union (EU). Especially concerning Transport, this importance accrues from the fact that this region is a part of the European continent, but at the same time it is a discontinuity zone of the Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T).
The European Transport Strategy for the non-EU regions has been expressed in the '90s through the Pan-European Corridors (PECs) and Areas (PETRAs) concept, but moreover, in this particular region it was more intensively expressed after 2001, with the definition of the SEE Strategic Network and of the SEE Core Transport Network, in view of the EU enlargements, which would cause the incorporation of entire PECs or parts of them into the TEN-T. Then, the European Commission (EC) initiated the revision of the PECs' concept, proposing five Priority Axes, and among them the South Eastern Axis that covers the SEE region, the Caucasus, Turkey, Middle East and Egypt.
In this aspect, taking into consideration the development already made on the networks of the acceding countries, a new orientation for extension of the transport networks for a wider Europe has been initiated. Especially for the development of the South Eastern Axis, with the aim to boost the development of transport infrastructures in the SEE region, the PECs' structures, Transport Ministries and the SEE Transport Observatory (SEETO) are engaged in the SEE Transport Axis Cooperation (SEE TAC), a project funded by the SEE Trans-National Programme. In this paper, an overview of the general framework and the followed methodologies for priority project definition and promotion is presented, together with intermediate results of the analysis of the existing situation carried out within the SEE TAC project. Perspectives for development and priority projects are presented based on these results, other studies and the TEN–T framework, which is currently under revision.

Infrastructure Projects, European Transport Strategy