Investing in Europe's Growth
The Trans-European Transport
Network
and
Connecting Europe Facility
Lia Potec, Policy Officer
European Commission, DG MOVE
Unit B4 Connecting Europe – Infrastructure investment strategies
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Overhauling the EU transport sector
essential for a sustainable and competitive EU
economy
Remove bottlenecks and bridge missing
links
Deploy interoperable traffic management
systems
Invest in innovative technologies and
transport systems
Improve transport logistics
Render transport services more efficient
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The Transport “White Paper”
10 goals
- to help achieve a competitive and resource efficient system
10 benchmarks
- to meet the goal of reducing the GHG emissions by 60% by
2050.
40 concrete initiatives
– to be developed over this decade.
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The Transport “White Paper”
By 2030, 30% of road freight over 300 km should shift to other
modes such as rail or waterborne transport,
and more than 50 % by 2050
By 2050, complete a European high-speed rail network.
Triple the length of the existing high-speed rail network by 2030
Maintain a dense railway network in all Member States.
By 2050, the majority of medium-distance passenger transport should go
by rail.
By 2030, a fully functional and EU-wide multimodal TEN-T ‘core network’
with a high-quality and capacity network and a corresponding set of
services by 2050
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By 2050, connect all core network airports to the rail (preferably highspeed) network
and all core seaports to the rail freight network and, where possible, inland
waterway system.
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The "European Infrastructure Package"
Financing framework
2014-2020
Sectoral policy frameworks
(setting priorities for 2020, 2030, 2050)
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The Transport Infrastructure Package
Policy framework
TEN-T Guidelines
Funding framework
Connecting Europe Facility
Structural and Investment Funds
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Key elements of the new
TEN-T policy
• Support implementation of Transport White Paper
through new infrastructure policy, including:
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New maps
Ambitious standards for all infrastructures
Common deadlines to achieve network (2030/2050)
Corridors and coordinators for implementation
• TEN-T Guidelines: Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013
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The new TEN-T maps
• Dual layer approach based on
a single European
methodology
• Comprehensive network to ensure
accessibility to all regions
• Core network focusing on the
strategically most important
parts
• Maps contained in Annex I to
the Regulation
• List of nodes in Annex II
• Indicative comprehensive
network maps for the
neighbouring countries in
Annex III
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TEN-T Network Standards (1/3)
Railways (freight), ports and rail-road terminals
• Comprehensive Network
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Electrification
ERTMS
1435mm gauge
Connection with freight terminals
• Core Network
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[see Comprehensive network plus]
freight lines (>100 km/h, 750m
train length, 22,5t axle load)
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TEN-T Network Standards (2/3)
Roads, ports, rail-road terminals and airports
• Comprehensive Network
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High quality roads i.e.
motorways, expressways,
conventional strategic roads
• Core Network
[see Comprehensive network plus]
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Rest areas on motorways all
100 km, including appropriate
parking space for commercial
road users
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Availability of clean fuels
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TEN-T Network Standards (3/3)
Other modes
Comprehensive Network
Implementation and deployment of
telematic applications (RIS, VTMIS, emaritime services, SESAR)
Connection of airports and ports to
TEN-T network
Core Network
[see Comprehensive network plus]
Availability of clean fuels at airports
and ports
Connection of ANNEX II ports and
airports to TEN-T network by
2030/2050
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TEN-T Comprehensive and Core Network
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Inland waterways and ports
TEN-T Network Deadlines
By 2030:
replace the patchwork of priority
projects by a single European
core network
By 2050:
develop the comprehensive
network as “ground layer” to
ensure accessibility and common
standards
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EU TEN-T Core Network
Railways (freight), ports and rail-road terminals
TEN-T Core Network Corridors and European
Coordinators
9 multimodal corridors (defined until 2020*)
•Implementation tools
•Support the core network implementation
•Synchronise investments (Corridor Work Plan), including
deployment of new technologies and telematic applications
•Alignment with the Rail Freight Corridors
•Involvement of stakeholders
•European Coordinators also for ERTMS and Motorways of the Sea
* Alignment identified in Annex I of the Connecting Europe Facility Regulation
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Connecting Europe Facility
Rules for awarding EU budget support to TEN-T
infrastructure projects
Eligibility
For what, who, how, how much
Forms of support
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Grants
Financial instruments
Objectives & priorities
•CEF Regulation: Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013
•Delegated Act:
COM(2013) 9690
•Communication: COM(2013)940
•Work Programmes: COM(2014) 1919, COM(2014) 1921
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Connecting Europe Facility: budget
€33.2 billion in current prices
€26.250 billion for transport (Vs ~€8bn for 2007 – 2013)
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€14.945 billion for all 28 MS
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€11.305 billion for the MS eligible to the Cohesion Fund
€1.141 billion for broadband and digital services
€5.850 billion for energy infrastructure
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CEF: Priorities
•Modes
•Rail, inland waterways, multimodal platforms (ports, rail-road
terminals) and intermodal connections
•Sections
•Missing links, cross-border, bottlenecks
•Horizontal
•ERTMS, SESAR, other telematic systems (RIS, ITS, e-Maritime...)
•Motorways of the Sea, including alternative fuelling (LNG) deployment
•New technologies and innovation focusing on decarbonisation, safe and
secure infrastructure, ports and airports
•Geographical
•Core Network, Corridors on the Core Network
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CEF: Eligibility
80 – 85 % of total budget for projects pre-identified listed in
Annex I to the CEF Regulation
• Horizontal priorities
• Sections on the Core Network Corridors
• Other important cross-border and bottleneck sections
•15 – 20 % of total budget for
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Other projects on the core network
Projects on comprehensive network (max 5%)
Projects in third countries
Financial instruments (10%)
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CEF Cohesion Envelope: €11.3 bn transferred from
the Cohesion Fund
Exclusively for transport projects in Member States (MS)
eligible for the Cohesion Fund
•National envelopes until end 2016
•80-85% of envelope for
• core network projects pre-identified in Annex I
• Also road cross-border (max. 10% of envelope)
•15-20% of envelope for projects
• On the core network only
• Not on the comprehensive network
• Not in third countries
• No contribution to financial instruments before 2017
•Common project pipeline for Cohesion Fund and CEF, in line with the
transport strategy
•Co-funding rates aligned to Cohesion Fund (max. 85%)
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CEF grants: co-funding rates
Types of Projects
CEF General Budget
CEF Cohesion
Envelope
(a) Studies (all modes)
(b)Works on
50%
85%
Cross border
Bottleneck
Other projects of common interest
Cross border
Bottleneck
Other projects of common interest
Inland transport connections to ports and airports (rail and road)
Development of ports
Development of multi-modal platforms
Rail
Reduce
rail freight noise by retrofitting of existing rolling stock
Freight transport services
Inland waterways
Secure parkings on road core network
Motorways of the sea
40%
30%
20%
40%
40%
20%
20%
20%
20%
20%
20%
20%
30%
85%
85%
85%
85%
85%
85%
85%
85%
85%
20%
20%
20%
85%
Traffic management systems
Cross border road sections
50/20%
50%
20%
10%
85%
85%
85%
85% (core network)
New technologies and innovation for all modes of transport
20%
85%
SESAR, RIS & VTMIS
ERTMS
ITS for road
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CEF in Croatia
€159.7 million national Cohesion envelope
•Pre-identified projects in Annex I
Mediterranean Corridor
Rijeka – Zagreb – Budapest
Rail – Studies and works (including construction of new track and
second track between Rijeka and HU border )
Rijeka
Port - Infrastructure upgrading and development, development of
multimodal platforms and interconnections
Rhine-Danube Corridor
Slavonski Brod
Port – Studies and works
Danube
IWW - Studies and works on several sections and
bottlenecks; inland waterway ports: multimodal
interconnections
Sava
IWW - Studies and works on several sections and
bottlenecks (including cross-border bridge)
Other core network sections
Dubrovnik – HR/ME border
Cross-border road - Works
Zagreb – SR border
Bottleneck rail – Studies and works
Horizontal priorities
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Complementarity CEF - ESIF
CEF - concentrates on
ESIF - focus on
projects with a high EU added value: projects to remove bottlenecks on
cross-border, major bottlenecks,
both the core and
multimodality, interoperability
comprehensive TEN-T
on the core network
other modes of transport: urban,
road, maritime
more sustainable modes of transport
– rail, IWW, intermodality
regional connectivity
rehabilitation projects
A common and complementary list of projects
Member States and Commission – to define early under which
support scheme individual TEN-T infrastructure projects should be
implemented: CEF, CF or ERDF
Consistency with the comprehensive national transport
strategy
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CEF: Centralised management
!! EU funds not, not projects
Programming via work programmes
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Annual and Multiannual Work Programmes
Management
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Grants – direct management
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Financial Instruments – via cooperation agreement with
interested entities (e.g. European Investment Bank)
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CEF: Grant management
How to give grant support to a project
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Financial instruments – Why?
• Limited € available:
• €26 billion to cover €250 billion in needs!
• Limited eligibility for grants under the CEF
• Mostly core network
• Almost no road or airport infrastructure
• Full eligibility for financial instruments
• Core & comprehensive TEN-T
• Any project eligible under the TEN-T Guidelines
• All modes of transport
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Financial instruments –
Projects
for what and how
• Identifiable revenue streams/commercial benefits and long-term
repayment
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Motorways with tolls, shadow-tolling, availability schemes
Airports development (e.g. new terminal)
Ports development (e.g. capacity extension)
Alternative fuelling infrastructure and on-board equipment (e.g. LNG on
boats)
• On-board equipment for traffic management systems (e.g. SESAR)
Forms
• Equity intruments
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Risk-capital, e.g. Marguerite Fund
Investing in equity reduces the need for debt and reduces the level of risks
• Debt instruments
Guarantees and risk-sharing instruments, e.g. LGTT and Project Bonds
• LGTT to support bank lending
• Project Bonds to support investment from capital market investors
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2014 Work Programmes and Calls
Work Programmes
• Adopted on 26 March 2014
• Multiannual Work Programme for €11 billion
• Annual Work Programme for €1 billion
Target date for
• Opening calls: September 2014
• Closing calls: end February 2015
Size of the calls will be evaluated on the basis of MS
project pipelines
In cooperation with MS authorities and DG REGIO, especially for Cohesion
MS
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Thank you for your attention!
lia.potec@ec.europa.eu
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