10 December 2002
Transboundary information center opened in Brest under TACIS program

 The Internet Platform transboundary information center was opened in Brest on Tuesday. Established in the framework of the European Union's TACIS technical assistance program, the center is part of a
project titled Trans-border Information and Contacts (TRIC) Platform for the Border Region Brest/Biala-Podlaska. The Internet Platform is expected to facilitate contacts between Belarus and Poland in various areas including business, culture, education, travel and sports. Its main
purposes are to supply tourists, businesspeople and the local population with information on the current and future status of the EU border. The center's future mission is to assist in carrying out projects aimed at the development of the border region Brest/Biala-Podlaska.
A vast array of useful data, including border-crossing requirements, customs regulations, and emergency telephone numbers and addresses can reportedly be found at www.tric.info.
Among those supporting the TRIC Platform project were Karlsruhe, Germany, economic development authorities, the German-Belarusian House Karlsruhe-Minsk, the Brest Regional Executive Committee, and the Biala-Podlaska city and povet (district) governments. The project is seen as a complement to the Euroregion Bug project.
On December 10, Brest hosted a final conference on the TRIC project, which brought together Brest regional executives, customs and border control officers, diplomats, managers of the German-Belarusian House, officials from Poland's Lublin province, and leaders of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences.