“On 13rd October 2016 we will launch the CEF Transport Calls that have a EUR 14.49 billion indicative budget available within Multi-Annual Work Programme, of which EUR 650 million are available under the General envelope and EUR 849.5 million under the Cohesion envelope. The Annual Work Programme is EUR 440million, of which EUR 190 million under the General envelope and EUR 250 million under the Cohesion envelope. CEF synergy work programme is EUR 40 million,” Stéphane Ouaki, Head of Unit, Connecting Europe, Infrastructure Investment Strategies, EC, said, during the Railway PRO Investment Summit, organised by Railway PRO, Club Feroviar and Romanian Railway Industry Association.
Within Multi-Annual Work Programme, the General envelope is EUR 650 million, and the horizontal priorities are SESAR (EUR 300million), ITS (EUR 120million), Innovation (EUR 80million), ERTMS (EUR 70million), Core Network urban nodes (EUR 40million) and Motorways of the Sea (EUR 40million). The EUR 849.5 million Cohesion envelope include the infrastructure projects on the TEN-T Core Network in sustainable modes of transport and horizontal priorities.
Within 2016 calls – Annual Work Programme EUR 20 million will be delivered for freight transport services, EUR 20 million for rail freight noise, EUR 40 million for cross-border connections to neighbouring countries and EUR 110 million to the cross-border infrastructure projects on both comprehensive and core TEN-T not pre-identified in the Annex I of the CEF Regulation. The Cohesion envelope is EUR 250million that will be delivered to the infrastructure projects in core TEN-T which are not pre-identified in the Annex I of the CEF Regulation.
The deadline for the 2016 Calls is February 2017 and the preparation and signature of grant agreements are scheduled starting from August 2017.
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