Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T): new EC funding proposals
21 November 2007by eub2 -- last modified 21 November 2007
The European Commission has tabled its proposals for funding TEN-T projects for the period 2007-2013. In selecting the projects, the Commission has given priority to cross-border projects and environmentally friendly modes such as inland waterways and rail. Following the publication of four calls for proposals, the Commission received 221 project proposals. The support requested (more than EUR 11.5 billion) largely exceeded the available Community budget of EUR 5.1 billion.
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Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T): selection of projects for the TEN-T multi-annual programme 2007-2013 and the annual TEN-T programme 2007
The European Commission published, in May 2007, a first series of calls for proposals in the framework of the TEN-T multi-annual programme for the years 2007-2013:
- A call for the TEN-T priority projects, including Galileo: this call covered the whole period 2007-2013, with an indicative total budget of EUR 5,301 million.
- A call for project proposals in the area of European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS), with a total indicative budget of EUR 250 million.
- A call for project proposals in the area of Air Traffic Management (ATM)/ European Research Programme (SESAR): this call covered the whole period 2007-2013, with an indicative total budget of EUR 350 million.
- A call for project proposals in the area of Intelligent Transport System (ITS), with a total indicative budget of EUR 100 million.
Following these calls, Member States and other public or private project promoters submitted to the Commission: 169 project proposals for TEN-T priority projects, 45 project proposals for ERTMS, 3 proposals for ATM and 4 proposals for ITS. For the priority projects only, these proposals represented a total investment of more than € 55 billion, and a total requested Community contribution of EUR 11.5 billion.
The Commission has completed the project selection process. These proposed projects are now sent to the Member States and to the European Parliament. After the agreement of the TEN financing Committee, the European Parliament will exercise its scrutiny right. It is expected that the Commission will adopt its final project funding decisions at the beginning of next year. These decisions will include the projects that shall be co-funded between 2007 and 2013 and the amounts to be granted to these projects.
1. Some selected projects
Among the priority projects receiving significant support are the two inland waterways, 'Rhine/Meuse-Main-Danube' and 'Seine-Scheldt'. This includes the important section between Vienna and Bratislava for studies and works on the Danube, as well as studies on the Straubing-Vilshofen section to explore new solution for this river bottleneck. In total, the proposed Community support for the 'Rhine/Meuse-Main-Danube' project amounts to just over EUR 190 million. The 'Seine-Scheldt' waterway project could receive as much as EUR 420 million in order to launch a project based on cross-border cooperation between Belgium and France..
Regarding railway axes, the Commission proposes to make available almost EUR 4 billion on various priority projects. These include the important Brenner and Mont Cenis cross-border sections, which should help to address environmental concerns in these sensible mountainous regions affected by cross-alpine traffic flows. The Brenner is a tunnel of 63 km in total and the Mont Cenis tunnel measures 51.5 km. Both are proposed for Community funding, with EUR 786 and EUR 671.8 million respectively.
The traffic flows into Scandinavia will benefit from launching the Fehmarn Belt project, for which the Commission proposes to grant EUR 351.6 million. Rail Baltica can develop environmentally friendly transport between the Member States in the Baltic region: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Poland. TEN-T support of EUR 124 million is proposed for works on cross-border sections and studies. Of course, this support is complementary to funding from the structural Funds and will allow the project to progress more quickly.
Cross-border projects, sometimes even relatively small ones like the Kehl Bridge between Germany and France, are proposed for co-financing on almost all the Priority Project axes. Independently of their size, they allow to link national networks and are therefore top priorities.
A significant effort is made regarding the studies. They are an indispensable part of the life-cycle of projects and therefore need to be given due attention. The cross-border studies for the Trieste-Divaca railway section constituting an important bottleneck between Italy and Slovenia ( EUR 50.7 million) is a good example. This concerns also the high-speed railway axis in the South-East of Europe or the new high capacity line through the Pyreneans for which a Community funding of EUR 5 million is proposed. Mention should also be made here of studies in Hungary on improving the navigability on the Danube ( EUR 4 million).
Finally, bottleneck sections on the priority projects which hinder traffic flows are proposed for funding. Examples include "Stuttgart-Ulm" ( EUR 215.9 M) in Germany, the by-pass of Nimes and Montpellier in France ( EUR 56.2 M), the River Tagus crossing in Portugal ( EUR 51.3 M), the "City-tunnel project" in Malmö - Sweden ( EUR 51,83 M) or the Valladolid-Vitoria-Bilbao/San Sebastian rail link ( EUR 73.53 M ) in Spain.
The proposed project list also demonstrates the benefits the work which the European coordinators has brought so far. For the projects for which European coordinators have been nominated, a significant number of mature proposals of very good quality were proposed by the Member States concerned. These proposals are an expression of the coordinators' global perspective of the respective corridors, and they enabled the Commission to ensure coherent Community support of high European added value.
The full list of selected proposals in the field of priority projects is set out in annex 1.
As regards the three other calls:
European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS)
In this area, the Commission intends to support 19 projects, which means a total contribution of EUR 271 million. (A second call for proposals will be published in 2009.) This will facilitate the deployment of a control-command and signalling system, compatible at European level.
Air Traffic Management (ATM) & SESAR
For the period 2007-2013, EUR 350 million will be granted for the implementation of the Single European Sky, in particular for the modernisation of the technical systems in order to respond efficiently to the continuing growth of air traffic.
Intelligent Transport Systems in the road sector
The 2007 call for proposals (which will be followed by two others in2010 and 2012, each of them for an indicative amount of EUR 100 million) led to the selection of the first phase of the EASYWAY, a project of truly European dimension. This project, which includes activities in the majority of the Member States, is aimed at optimising the capacity and efficiency of existing and new road infrastructure, at promoting interoperability and security as well as the reliability of the network.
2. Key data on the proposals
The proposed project selection in the field of priority projects fully meets the Commission's objective in terms of sustainable development. Three quarters (74.2%) of the funding goes to railway projects and another 11.5% are reserved for inland waterways. The support for road and air transport is more limited. (See graph 1).
Graph 1. Proposed support by transport mode in the field of priority projects
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The objective of concentrating support on critical cross-border sections has been met. It is proposed that 56% of the available budget would be concentrated on works and studies concerning cross-border sections (see graph 2). The Community and the Member States have committed themselves to those projects that generate a significant network effect beyond the borders of the Member States directly concerned and will thus be of great benefit to the trans-European transport network. The projects that do not cross border projects are also of undisputed European added value since they aim at removing bottlenecks on the TEN-T network or in the case of Galileo, go beyond borders.
3. The 2007 annual TEN-T programme
In 2007, a total of EUR 112 million is available for the annual TEN-T projects. The aid to be granted on the basis of this annual work programme will be an important part of the Community financing for the trans-European transport network during the period 2007-2013. It will complement efforts under the multi-annual programme, but the annual programme will not support actions already supported under the multi-annual programme.
93 proposals were received in response to the 2007 call for proposals. The total requested support of EUR 945 million largely exceeded the available EUR 112 million Community funding. Graph 3 shows the distribution of the 43 selected proposals by transport mode.
The full list of the selected proposals for the annual 2007 programme is included in annex 2.
The Commission expects that, with its draft decisions, it can develop an instrument that efficiently supports Member States and project promoters in their efforts to build the Trans-European Transport Network. The effects of this Community action, throughout the seven-year period, should also be visible and should benefit both European citizens and economic operators .
MEMO - Annex 1. List of selected projects TEN-T 2007-2013
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 1 Railway Berlin - Palermo
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Southern access line to Brenner base tunnel - studies and works
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Rail
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58.81
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Erfurt - Halle/Gröbers - works
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Rail
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57.00
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Kundl/Radlfeld - Baumkirchen - works
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Rail
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58.30
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Brenner base tunnel - works
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Rail
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592.65
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Brenner base tunnel - studies
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Rail
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193.35
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Total PP 1
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960.11
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 2 High speed line Paris - Bruxelles - Köln -
Amsterdam - London
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Connection Zaventem airport - High speed line (Diabolo) - works
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Rail
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15.00
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Aachen - DE/BE border - works
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Rail
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14.78
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Total PP 2
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29.78
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 3 High speed railway South-West Europe
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Ni(mes and Montpellier bypasses - studies and works
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Rail
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56.26
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Tagus river crossing - studies and works
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Rail
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51.31
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Irun - Hendaye - studies
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Rail
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2.50
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Vitoria - Dax - studies
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Rail
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7.50
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Vitoria - Dax - works
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Rail
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60.00
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Guipuzcoano section - works
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Rail
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7.12
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Platform works in the section Valladolid - Burgos - works
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Rail
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25.00
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Evora - Merida - studies and works
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Rail
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312.66
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Perpignan - Figueras - works
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Rail
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69.75
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Bordeaux node - works
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Rail
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21.28
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Valladolid - Burgos - Vitoria - studies
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Rail
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14.65
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Bordeaux - Hendaye - studies
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Rail
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17.10
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Vitoria - Bilbao - works
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Rail
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26.76
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Total PP 3
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671.89
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 4 High speed railway East
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Saarbrücken - Ludwigshafen - works
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Rail
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10.00
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Total PP 4
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10.00
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 5 Betuwe Line
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Replacement of electrical supply system on two sections - works
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Rail
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19.88
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Total PP 5
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19.88
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 6 Railway line Lyon - Ukrainian border
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Lyon - Torino - studies and works
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Rail
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671.80
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Ronchi South - Trieste - studies
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Rail
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24.00
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Trieste - Divac(a - studies
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Rail
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50.70
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Budapest - Miskolc/Ny?regyháza - studies
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Rail
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8.00
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Total PP 6
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754.50
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 7 Motorway Igoumenitsa/Patra -
Athina-Sofia-Budapest
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Promachonas - Thessaloniki - studies
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Road
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2.35
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Development of the Motorway Priority Project 7 - studies
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Road
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1.13
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Total PP 7
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3.48
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 8 Multimodal project Portugal/Spain - Europe
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New Lisbon airport - studies and works
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Air Transport
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69.00
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Total PP 8
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69
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 12 Nordic Triangle
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Kouvola/Kotka - Hamina port - works
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Rail
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6.60
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Lahti - Vainikkala - works
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Rail
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23.15
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Connection PP12 - Helsinki airport - works
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Rail
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17.76
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E20 Norra Länken - works
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Road
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56.15
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Citytunnel Malmö - works
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Rail
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51.83
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Total PP 12
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155.49
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 13 Road axis UK/Ireland/Benelus
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Package for improvements and upgrades on bottleneck sections - works
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Road
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80.71
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Total PP 13
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80.71
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 15 Galileo
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Trans European Satellite Navigaion System (Galileo) - Completion of
development - studies
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Galileo
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190.00
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Total PP 15
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190
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 16 Freight railway Sines - Madrid - Paris
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High capacity line through the Pyreneans - studies
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Rail
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5.00
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Total PP 16
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5
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 17 Railway Paris - Bratislava
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Wendlingen - Ulm - works
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Rail
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101.45
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München - Mühldorf - Freilassing - AT border - works
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Rail
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9.75
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Baudrecourt - Vendenheim - works
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Rail
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18.00
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Kehl - Appenweier - works
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Rail
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26.95
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Wien - Bratislava (6 sub-projects) - studies and works
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Rail
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129.85
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Salzburg - DE border - works
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Rail
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37.88
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Stuttgart - Wendlingen - works
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Rail
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114.47
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Total PP 17
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438.35
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 18 Rhein/Meuse - Main - Danube
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Maasroute upgrade to class Vb specifications - works
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Inland waterway
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81.78
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Eliminating bottlenecks Wien - Bratislava - works
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Inland waterway
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28.05
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Danube bridge at Deggendorf - works
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Inland waterway
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7.01
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Floodgate Huy - studies
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Inland waterway
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17.59
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Straubing - Vilshofen - studies
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Inland waterway
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16.50
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Albert canal locks - works
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Inland waterway
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26.93
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Eliminating bottlenecks Wien - Bratislava - studies
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Inland waterway
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8.34
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Navigability improvement Hungarian section - studies
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Inland waterway
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4.00
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Total PP 18
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190.2
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 19 High speed rail interoperability on the Iberian
peninsula
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Madrid - Barcelona - FR border - works
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Rail
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22.86
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Ponte de Lima - Vigo - works
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Rail
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244.14
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Total PP 19
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267
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 20 Fehmarn belt
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Fehmarn belt fixed rail/road link - studies and works
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Multimodal
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351.60
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København - Ringsted capacity improvement - studies
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Rail
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10.99
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Rødby - Ringsted upgrading - studies
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Rail
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11.70
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Total PP 20
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374.29
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 22 Railway Athina - Nürnberg/Dresden
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Praha - Beroun - studies
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Rail
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14.50
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Biatorgaby - Tata - studies
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Rail
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1.25
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Development of PP 22 - studies
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Rail
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6.50
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Total PP 22
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22.25
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 23 Railway Gdansk - Wien
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Upgrade Blazovice - Nezamyslice - studies
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Rail
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7.07
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Total PP 23
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7.07
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 24 Railway Lyon/Genova - Rotterdam/Antwerpen
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Node of Genova - studies
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Rail
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5.05
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Frankfurt - Mannheim - studies
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Rail
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35.45
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Duisburg - Emmerich - studies and works
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Rail
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63.33
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Re-construction Karlsruhe - Basel - works
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Rail
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94.50
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Rhin-Rhône - Branche Est - works
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Rail
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198.00
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Cross-border BE-NL - studies
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Rail
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7.29
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Total PP 24
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403.62
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 26 Rail/Road axis Ireland/UK/Continent
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Interconnector tunnel Dublin - studies
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Rail
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10.00
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Total PP 26
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10
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 27 Rail Baltica
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European gauge line (Estonian section) - studies
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Rail
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1.00
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European gauge line (cross-border PL, cross-border LV) - works
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Rail
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72.80
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Tartu - Valga - works
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Rail
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10.75
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European gauge line (PL - Marjiampole) - studies
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Rail
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16.07
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European gauge line (Latvian section) - studies
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Rail
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1.10
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Valmeira - Valka / LT border - Jelgava / Riga - Valmeira - works
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Rail
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22.33
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Total PP 27
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124.05
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 28 EuropCaprail
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EuroCaprail Luxembourg - Strassbourg (Luxembourgian section) - works
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Rail
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27.00
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EuroCaprail Brussels - Luxembourg (Belgian section) - works
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Rail
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30.18
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Total PP 28
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57.18
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 29 Ionian/Adriatic Intermodal Corridor
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Ioannina - Antirrio - studies
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Rail
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21.50
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Patra - Pyrgos - Kalamata - studies
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Rail
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15.50
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Total PP 29
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37
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Project title
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Mode of Transport
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Amount (in Million EUR )
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PP 30 Inland waterway Seine-Scheldt
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Seine-Scheldt Inland waterway Network - works
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Inland waterway
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420.19
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Total PP 30
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420.19
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MEMO - Annex 2. Selected TEN-T Projects for the Annual Programme
2007
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Opening Number
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Project title
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Mode
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TEN-T funding (in Million EUR )
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3
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REREX - Railway link Budapest - Airport Ferihegy
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Rail
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3.00
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4
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Bretagne High Speed Line
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Rail
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6.00
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5
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D. A. N. U. B. E. - Romanian Danube port infrastructure development
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Inland Waterways
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0.20
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6
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Second Mosel-lock-basin in Fankel
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Inland Waterways
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4.91
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7
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Nordic Triangle: Ostlänken (Järna-Linköping)
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Rail
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1.26
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9
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New railway network in the Basque Country, Abadino – Durango.
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Rail
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4.43
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10
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Motorway of Navarra (A-15)
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Road
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3.98
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11
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GSM-R system on the Slovenian railway network
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Rail
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1.70
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12
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Haparanda line (Boden - Haparanda)
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Rail
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4.70
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16
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Re-construction of the Haseltal bridge on the Motorway A 3
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Road
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1.48
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19
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Malta Freeport Terminals - Expansion
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Mtme Ports
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3.07
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23
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Marselis Tunnel Project, Aarhus.
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Mtme Ports
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4.18
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27
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Development of the Railway Common Interface and Reference File Database
Software in support of the TAF-TSI
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Rail
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1.00
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28
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Environmental Impact Assessment on Motorways E47/E55 and E20/E47/E55
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Road
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1.90
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34
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Prolongation of the Grand Canal of Le Havre
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Mtme Ports
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1.43
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36
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Quality, safety and securey improvements at Budapest Ferihegy Airport
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Air Transport
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3.97
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37
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Riga Northern Transport Corridor
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Mtme Ports
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5.50
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38
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Cargo City Development - Railway tunnel, Milano airport
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Air Transport
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1.71
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42
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Improvement of railway facilities in the Marghera Area
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Mtme Ports
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0.90
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45
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Lyon-Torino: Access routes to the base tunnel
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Rail
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4.70
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47
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Study for improving Romanian Danube ports (merged with ON 5)
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Inland Waterways
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0.00
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49
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Ventspils port infrastructure development and access
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Mtme Ports
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0.50
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50
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Manchester airport: 3rd rail platform
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Air Transport
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1.64
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51
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Railway Seinäjoki - Oulu (2007-2008)
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Rail
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9.30
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54
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Motorway A 6:Heilbronn/Untereisesheim - Weinsberg
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Road
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2.22
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56
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Motorway BU-30: Quintanadueñas-Villatoro-Villimar
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Road
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4.37
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57
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Civitavecchia railway link between the Motorways of the Sea terminal and PP
1
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Rail
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1.00
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60
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Russe (Rousse) - Varna railway line
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Rail
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1.55
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61
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Intermodal terminal in Russe (Rousse)
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Rail
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1.30
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62
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Intermodal terminal in Plovdiv
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Rail
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0.80
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63
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Port of Genoa - Hinterland terminal of Alessandria
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Mtme Ports
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4.60
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64
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Development of road transport corridor IA (Via Hanseatica linking Riga to
Kaliningrad (E77/A12))
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Road
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1.10
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66
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Express road S19: Rzeszów-Barwinek
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Road
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3.45
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68
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Express road S5: Nowe Marzy - Bydgoszcz and Z.nin - Gniezno
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Road
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4.76
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70
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Airport "Katowice" in Pyrzowice
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Air Transport
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0.81
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71
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Railway station Pr(erov
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Rail
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1.85
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73
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Reconstruction of the Olomouc railway station
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Rail
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1.65
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74
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Ionian Highway (Western Axis)
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Road
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2.38
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77
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Master plan for the ports of Cyprus
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Mtme Ports
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0.50
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79
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Study for Cyprian public transport inter-city links using the Motorway
Network
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Road/ITS
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0.75
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84
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Intermodal infrastructure facilities at Norra Hamnen in Malmö
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Mtme Ports
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0.57
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87
|
E6 Trelleborg-Vellinge
|
Road
|
1.68
|
91
|
PBKAL (Paris/Brussels/Köln/Amsterdam/London): Belgian part of the
northern European high speed network
|
Rail
|
5.80
|
|
|
|
112.60
|
Source: European Commission