The joint declaration welcomes the European Union's role in the Danube region and underlines that the region's main advantage is the possibility of investment in the region through transport routes, better management of the existing infrastructure and development of a combined transport system.
Participants said the countries within the Danube Cooperation Process should enact all agreed projects to that potentials could be used in the best way.
The Danube Cooperation Process was established in 2002 by 13 Danube river basin countries - Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Serbia, and Montenegro. The European Commission and the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe are equal participants.
The Danube Cooperation Process concentrates on economic development, navigation, environmental protection, tourism, subregional cooperation and culture. Ministerial conferences are held every two years. The fourth will take place in Ukraine in 2009.