{"id":16657,"date":"2026-07-01T08:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/?p=16657"},"modified":"2026-10-12T15:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:10:30","slug":"serbias-inland-navigation-certificates-now-valid-across-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/en\/2026\/07\/01\/serbias-inland-navigation-certificates-now-valid-across-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia&#8217;s Inland Navigation Certificates Now Valid Across EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Danube Commission welcomes the decision of European Commission (2026\/1179), to recognize across the EU the inland navigation certificates of qualification issued by Serbia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For thousands of boatmasters and deck crew working on the Danube, this removes a practical barrier: a certificate earned in Serbia is now a passport to work anywhere on EU inland waterways, without extra paperwork or re-certification.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This step contributes to closer alignment of professional qualifications in the Danube region and encourages other non-EU Member States already on this path to continue their efforts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16767 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/resize_IMG_5899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/resize_IMG_5899.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/resize_IMG_5899-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/resize_IMG_5899-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Danube Commission welcomes the decision of European Commission (2026\/1179), to recognize across the EU the inland navigation certificates of qualification issued by Serbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":16767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16657"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16764,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16657\/revisions\/16764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}