3. The 1996 White Paper on trends in and development of inland navigation and its infrastructure posited that there was no single inland navigation market in Europe, that instead it was composed of fragments based on different river basins and connecting canals and that the rules governing the access to the market are equally fragmented, diverse and partly non-existent.
3. The 1996 White Paper on trends in and development of inland navigation and its infrastructure posited that there was no single inland navigation market in Europe, that instead it was composed of fragments based on different river basins and connecting canals and that the rules governing the access to the market are equally fragmented, diverse and partly non-existent.