DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-082-5-0251

Grant Conditions in the Area of Sustainable Transport Support in EU Countries: Links with Economic Development

Marie Poláchová ORCID...¹, Martin Žapka ORCID...¹, Barbora Stojanová¹

¹ Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

The transport sector is one of the most significant polluters of the environment. The requirement to achieve climate neutrality is putting pressure on sustainable investments in this sector as well. Subsidy conditions do not only follow the economic evaluation of the given investment, but also include other aspects, including social and environmental ones. Within the EU, there is an effort to harmonize the criteria and methods used to evaluate projects (co-)funded from EU resources. While mandatory criteria and methods set by the EU are binding for national methodologies, the recommended ones depend on the extent to which countries choose to adopt them. In order to identify differences in the level of reporting obligations, the article compares the subsidy requirements of individual EU countries in supporting sustainable investments in transport. Furthermore, by applying OLS and correlation analysis, we confirm the relationship between the level of reporting obligations defined in national subsidy titles and the economic development of a country measured by real GDP per capita.

Keywords: Sustainability Assessment, Transportation Sustainability, Subsidy Policy, Real GDP

pages: 251-262, online: 2026