SECTION 47

1. To achieve a harmonious and integrated development of the sub-regional transport and communications network and to progressively prepare a joint policy, Member States shall: a) promote the integration of transport and communications infrastructures; b) coordinate the various modes of transport in order to increase their efficiency; c) progressively harmonize their transport and communications laws and regulations; d) encourage the use of local material and human resources, the standardization of networks and equipment, the investigation and popularization of infrastructural construction techniques and of adapted equipment and materials; e) expand and modernize transport and communications infrastructures by mobilizing the necessary technological and financial resources; f) promote sub-regional industry in the field of transport and communications equipment; g) organize, structure and promote the sub-regional sector of passenger and goods transport activities. 2. Accordingly, Member States shall: a) prepare coordinated programmes for structuring the road transport sector; b) prepare plans for improving and reorganizing the different railways systems of Member States with a view to their interconnection, and construct new railways; c) harmonize: - their international sea and river transport policies; - their air transport policies; - their work on the training and further training of specialist cadres in transport and communications; d) modernize and standardize their equipment in order that all Member States may be linked with one another and with the exterior by scheduled flights.