The plan proposes a toolbox of 10 actions to guide the EU and its Member States when introducing such emergency crisis-response measures. Among other actions, it highlights the importance of ensuring minimum connectivity and passenger protection, building resilience to cyberattacks, and resilience testing.

It also stresses the relevance of the Green Lanes principles, which ensure that land freight can cross borders in less than 15 minutes, and reinforces the role of the Network of Contact Points in national transport authorities. Both have proved crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as in the current crisis caused by Russian aggression against Ukraine.

The 10 areas of action are:

1.  Making EU transport laws fit for crisis situations
2.  Ensuring adequate support for the transport sector
3.  Ensuring free movement of goods, services and people
4.  Managing refugee flows and repatriating stranded passengers and transport workers
5.  Ensuring minimum connectivity and passenger protection
6.  Sharing transport information
7.  Strengthening transport policy coordination
8.  Strengthening cybersecurity
9.  Testing transport contingency
10.  Cooperation with international partners

The Commission and the Member States will use this Contingency Plan to respond to current challenges affecting the transport sector. The Commission will support Member States and steer the process of building crisis preparedness in cooperation with the EU agencies, by coordinating the Network of National Transport Contact Points and maintaining regular discussions with international partners and stakeholders.