European money for transport, “more accessible”

The European Union Council for Transport has extended the European network TEN-T over Romania with 5 routes, for which the necessary European financing of this construction will be more accessible.

The European Council for Transport has extended the European network TEN-T over Romania with 5 routes, among which there are Timişoara-Sebeş-Turda-Târgu-Mureş-Iaşi-Ungheni and Calafat-Craiova-Alexandria-Bucureşti, for which the necessary European financing of this construction will be more accessible.

The five routes approved vise both the railway infrastructure and the road one also on Timişoara-Sebeş-Turda-Târgu-Mureş-Iaşi-Ungheni, Calafat-Craiova-Alexandria-Bucureşti, Borş-Turda and Constanţa-Tulcea-Brăila-Galaţi within the global network and of Danubius-Bucharest Channel within the central network.

„The access to financing will be simplified, and the European financing available for these projects, identified from now as being proprietary, will substantially increase”, has declared, into a notification, the Minister of Transport Alexandru Nazare.

Besides the financing sources from Structural Tools accorded by the European Committee (European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund), the development and the modernization of transport infrastructure of TEN-T network also beneficiates from other European funds allocated to the program.

The decision was taken Thursday at Brussels by the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council of European Union.

After taking the decision, the total length of TEN-T networks from Romania is doubling over the road transport mode and increases with over 40 percent over the railway one.

The Danish ministry of Transport, Dam Kristensen, affirmed that today was defined a new map of transportations in Europe, and the commissioner for transport, Sim Kallas, has declared that finally the Union has a plan regarding the trans-European networks of transportation, and the he hopes that this plan will succeed, broadcasts the correspondent of România Actualităţi, Luminiţa Apostol.

The European Committee intention, who launched the proposal of developing a new complete network of transport at European level, is to cover all member states and all their regions and to constitute a base for an equilibrated development of all means of transport, with the idea of assuring a better functioning of the internal market of Union and to improve the economic and social cohesion between the member states.

The initial proposal of European Committee was modified within the negotiations with the member states, which have presented each its position and pointed projects that are considered to have an European importance and that need European financing.

It must be said that it is about the financing of these projects from the budget 2014-2020 of the Union.

Romania has obtained today in addition from the initial proposal of European Committee also the recognition of importance regarding some new transport infrastructure sections and also their priority for European financing.

Once established the position of the Member States of the Union Council it will be supported within the future negotiations with the European Parliament.

The TEN-T network is panned on two levels, respectively the central network and the global one.

The central network will be composed from the most important nodes and connections for EU from the strategic and economic point of view, including all the means of transport, and the global network will assure the accessibility of the central network, will connect all the regions of EU, will be multimodal and will offer a base infrastructure for intermodal transport services regarding the passengers and the stuff.

Translated by Alexandra-Diana Mircea
MTTLC, Bucharest University