COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
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TRANS-EUROPEAN NETWORKS 
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TEN 1997 Annual Report (Regulation 2236/95) 
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: AN OVERVIEW OF TEN IN 1997 5 
2. PROGRESS ACHIEVED ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS 7 
2.1 Energy 7 
2.2 Telecommunications 7 
2.3 Transport 8 
3. TEN-RELATED LEGISLATION AND COMMITTEES 10 
3.1 Treaty, Guidelines and related legislation 10 
3.1.1 Modification of Article 129 c (1) and 129 d of the Treaty 10 
3.1.2 Adoption of the TEN Telecommunications Guidelines 10 
3.1.3 Amendment to the TEN Energy Guidelines 10 
3.1.4 Modification of the TEN Transport Guidelines 10 
3.1.5 IDA-II proposals 11 
3.1.6 Road transport telematics 11 
3.2 TEN Guidelines committees 11 
3.2.1 Energy 11 
3.2.2 Telecommunications 11 
3.2.3 Transport 11 
3.3 TEN financial assistance committee 12 
4. FINANCING THE TEN 14 
4.1 TEN financial assistance Committee 14 
4.1.1 Energy 14 
4.1.2 Telecommunications 14 
4.1.3 Transport 15 
4.2 IDA 16 
4.3ERDF * 16 
4.4 Cohesion Fund 18 
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4.5 EIB loans 19 
4.6 EIF guarantees 21 
4.7 ESCS Loans 22 
4.8 EEA Financial Mechanism 22 
4.9 Member States' financing 22 
4.10 Financing infrastructure in third countries 22 
5. FINANCING THE TEN: OTHER ISSUES 25 
5.1 Giving impetus to the "Essen" projects 25 
5.2 Agenda 2000 and the future financial perspectives 25 
5.3 Promoting Public / private partnerships (PPP) 26 
5.3.1 Kinnock High-Level Group and follow-up 26 
5.3.1.1 Public procurement 27 
5.3.1.2 Competition policy. .....27 
5.3.1.3 Development of financing instruments 27 
5.3.1.4 Innovative and proactive support 28 
5.3.1.5 Network and trans-European benefits and a PPP database 28 
5.4 Improving coordination 28 
5.5 SEM 2000 and Evaluation 28 
6. EXTERNAL RELATIONS 29 
6.1 Enlargement and the pre-accession strategy 29 
6.2 Structured dialogue 30 
7. THE TEN AS A SOURCE OF EMPLOYMENT 31 
8. OTHER UNION POLICIES WITH A TEN DIMENSION 32 
8.1 European company statute , 32 
8.2 Environment : 32 
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1. LIST OF TABLES IN THE TEXT 
UNION FINANCING OF THE TEN 13 
TEN - ENERGY: COMMITMENTS 14 
TRANSPORT: PROJECT CATEGORIES 15 
TRANSPORT: FORMS OF INTERVENTION 15 
TRANSPORT MODES 16 
TOTAL ERDF ENERGY SECTOR 1997 16 
TOTAL ERDF TRANSPORT SECTOR 1997 17 
COHESION FUND TEN FINANCING. TOTAL BY MEMBER STATES 18 
COHESION FUND TEN FINANCING: TOTAL BY MODES 19 
EIB LENDING FOR TEN 21 
EIF LOAN GUARANTEES FOR TEN 21 
PHARE INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING 23 
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: AN OVERVIEW OF TEN IN 1997 
The Commission is submitting the "Trans-European Networks 1997 Annual Report" to the 
European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of 
Regions pursuant to Article 16 of the TEN Financial Assistance Regulation n° 2236/95. 
The year under review was rich in developments concerning TEN: 
• Concrete progress on individual projects of common interest: 
Steady progress was made on many TEN projects in all three sectors. 
• Legal aspects: 
(1) modification of Article 129c (1) and 129d in the Amsterdam Treaty; 
(2) adoption of the telecommunications Guidelines; 
(3) updating of the list of TEN energy projects of common interest and of their 
specifications; 
(4) Commission proposals for the extension of the Interchange of Data between 
Administrations (IDA-2) programme based on Article 129 D of the Treaty; 
(5) Commission proposals for modifying the TEN transport Guidelines to include 
seaports, inland ports and intermodal terminals; 
• Financing 
(6) Publication of the Commission's "Agenda 2000" confirming the financing of TEN in 
the European Union 15 as a priority in the next financial period and calling for closer 
coordination of the TEN financial instruments; 
(7) Publication of the recommendations of the High-level group of government and 
private sector representatives on how public/private partnerships could be facilitated in 
transport projects; 
(8) Publication by the Commission of two communications on how it proposed to 
implement in general the recommendations addressed to it and on the competition 
aspects; 
(9) Review of EIB's operations in favour of TEN leading to new measures in its 
"Amsterdam special action programme"; 
(10) Recommendation by the Luxemburg European Council on Employment that each of 
the transport "priority" projects henceforth follow a timetable together with an 
appropriate financing plan. 
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• Enlargement and external relations 
(11) "Agenda 2000" underlined the important role of TEN in creating new links with the 
Central and Eastern European candidate countries. 
(12) The Third Pan-European Transport Conference in Helsinki in June adjusted the 
Corridor concept by the inclusion of one new corridor, four Transport Areas, the 
reinforcement of multimodality and the importance of Intelligent Transport Systems 
(ITS) in the transport infrastructure. 
(13) Publication of two Commission communications on connecting the Union's transport 
and energy networks with those of its neighbours; 
(14) The Transport Infrastructure Needs Assessment (TINA) achieved its full speed with 
the establishment of the technical secretariat in Vienna. 
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2. PROGRESS ACHIEVED ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS 
2.1 Energy 
As regards the 10 priority projects identified by the Essen European Council the situation 
by end 1997 is as follows: 
• All the natural gas priority projects have progressed well: 
For the Iberian gas projects, the Algeria-Morocco-Spain main pipeline up to Cordoba 
(project h4), the interconnecting pipeline to Portugal (f6) and the North-South pipeline in 
Portugal (e5) are operational. Construction works are very advanced on the other sections 
in Northern Portugal and in Galicia. Construction work for the "Gasoducto Occidental" 
(pipeline from Extremadura to Asturias) has started on some sections of this pipeline and 
commissioning of the overall project is planned for 1999. 
- For the Greek gas project (e6), the main gas pipeline is operational and the high 
pressure branches and the LNG terminal are under construction. 
- For the Russia-Belarus-Poland-European Union gas project (h7), the 
interconnecting pipeline between the Eastern part of Germany and the Western part of 
Poland is operational and other sections in Germany and in Belarus are under 
construction. 
• The majority of the electricity priority projects are/have been facing authorization 
problems. These problems generally arise from the opposition of the local 
environmental protection bodies, which is reflected by the local and national 
administrations; this is still the case for: 
- the France - Italy project (b6); 
- the France - Spain (Cazaril-Aragon) project (b7); 
The state of advancement of all 74 projects of common interest of the Community 
Guidelines is to be found in Annex I. 
2.2 Telecommunications 
Most of the 28 Euro-ISDN projects funded in 1995 and 1996 are progressing 
satisfactorily and 10 of them are due to be completed by the end of 1997 (see 
annex II). A technical review of these projects was made between 20-23 October 
with the help of independent experts; it was based on the technical evaluation of 
the intermediate or final results (deliverables) produced by each project. 
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2.3 Transport 
Progress on some of the 14 "specific" transport projects identified by the Essen 
European Council, which require substantial public sector grant support, has been 
significant. Annex III gives a full picture of the situation. Special mention should 
be made of the following positive developments: 
(1) HST/combined transport North-South 
(a) Work has started on a further section of the new line Leipzig/Halle 
- Erfurt; 
(b) the design studies for the Austrian Inn Valley section are 
progressing according to plan so that initial work can start in 1998; 
(c) progress has also been made in the decision-making process for the 
Brenner base tunnel. 
(2) Noticeable progress has been made on all sections of the PBKAL: 
(a) the Western branch of the Belgian section was opened for 
operation in December 1997, which led to a reduction of 20 
minutes in the travelling time between Brussels and Paris and 
Brussels and London; 
(b) work has also started on the Eastern branch from Brussels towards 
the German border; 
(c) on the Kôln-Frankfurt section, work is proceeding faster than 
originally planned and the opening for operation is now planned 
for spring 2001. 
(d) for the UK part? final technical studies have been undertaken 
which would enable construction work to begin as planned in 1998 
though LCR's financing difficulties will need to be resolved for 
this project to go ahead on schedule; 
(3) HST South: work has been launched on several sub-sections of the 
Madrid-Barcelona section: Catalayud - Ricla and Zaragoza - Lleida. 
(4) HST East: the French government has decided to launch the final studies 
(APD) and to build a new line between Vaires and Vandières which 
should start early 2000. 
(5) On 1 June work began on the port line section of the Betuwe Line in the 
Netherlands, a high-capacity dedicated freight railway. 
(6) On the Lyon-Trieste project, studies are on-going; on 3 October 1997 the 
French and Italian governments agreed an ECU 55 million three-year 
study programme for the international section: 
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(7) Greek Motorways: (a) On PATHE (North-South axis), work has been 
accelerated on several sections. For the Public Private Partnership 
projects ESSI (Elefsina-Stavros-Spata-Immitos/Ring of Athens) and the 
Rio Antirio bridge the financial arrangements are near completion and 
preparatory work is progressing well, (b) As regards Egnatia (East-
West axis), new sections have been put out for tender. 
(8) Following the official launch of the Dublin-Belfast "Enterprise" Rail 
Service on 21st October, with a consequent reduction of travelling time to 
lh55 minutes, the whole Cork - Dublin - Belfast - Larne - Stranraer 
project is now nearly complete; 
(9) On Malpensa airport, work is progressing according to schedule; it is 
planned to open the new airport (first phase) in October 1998. 
(10) The construction of the Ôresund fixed link is progressing according to 
plan and will be completed by 2000; the Danish access routes will be 
completed by 1998. 
(11) Nordic Triangle Multimodal Corridor. 
(a) El8 road upgrading projects near Turku and on the Helsinki 
ring are nearing completion, and work has begun on the E6 
Sunninge Sound crossing in Western Sweden. 
(b) In the rail sector, work continues on the Finnish southern 
mainline and the Swedish southern mainline and west coast 
line. 
(c) Progress has been made with the geological work for the new 
runway at Stockholm-Arlanda airport and with the construction 
of new Schengen facilities at Helsinki Vantaa. 
(12) The study of the Newry-Dundalk corridor (part of the Ireland-UK-
Benelux road project) has been completed and a decision on the next steps 
is expected shortly. Studies of the English and Welsh sections, and 
construction work on the Scottish section, should lead to improved traffic 
management over the whole route. 
Studies for the West Coast Main Line have evaluated the options for enhancing the 
command and control systems of the route to achieve Europe-wide interoperability and 
construction work has begun to modernise the line itself. 
3. TEN-RELATED LEGISLATION AND COMMITTEES 
3.1 Treaty, Guidelines and related legislation 
3.1.1 Modification of Article 129 c (1) and 129 d of the Treaty 
Upon the entry into force of the Amsterdam Treaty, the third section of paragraph 
one of Article 129 c will be amended to facilitate further the financing by the 
Union of projects from the private sector. The text will read: "... may support 
projects of common interest supported by Member States, which are identified in 
the framework of the guidelines referred to in the first indent, particularly through 
feasability studies, loan guarantees or interest-rate subsidies." 
In addition, article 129 d will be modified so that all legislative proposals 
concerning TEN will be subject to the co-decision procedure, whereas at present 
only the guidelines are subject to co-decision. 
3.1.2 Adoption of the TEN Telecommunications Guidelines 
After a prolonged conciliation procedure these were adopted on 17 June1. 
3.1.3 Amendment to the TEN Energy Guidelines 
The Guidelines were modified on 29 May to update the list of projects of 
common interest2. On 11 July the Commission adopted the specifications of the 
projects of common interest3. 
3.1.4 Modification of the TEN Transport Guidelines 
On 17 December the Commission published proposals to extend the TEN 
transport Guidelines to include seaports, inland ports and intermodal terminals 
and to amend the title of "Essen" specific project no. 8 ("Multimodal links 
Portugal - Spain / Europe")4. 
1 Decision 1336/97 of 17 June 1997; OJ L183/12 
2 Decision 1047/97 of 29 May 1997; OJ LI52/12 
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3.1.5 IDA - IIproposals 
The current IDA programme coming to a close at the end of 1997, the 
Commission adopted on 12 December proposals for new programme. It defines 
guidelines and projects of common interest for trans-European networks in the 
field of telematic exchange of information between administrations together with 
a programme of measures to ensure the interoperability of these networks and 
access to them5. These proposals are based on Article 129 D of the Treaty. 
3.1.6 Road transport telematics 
The Commission adopted on 20 May 1997 a communication to the Council and 
the European Parliament proposing a strategy for the application of telematics to 
road transport in Europe and a list of initial actions.6 On 17 June the Council 
declared that it considered the communication as an appropriate basis for future 
action. 
3.2 TEN Guidelines committees 
3.2.1 Energy 
The energy Guidelines committee met on 30 April 1997. The main point on its 
agenda was a Commission proposal on the technical specifications for the 
projects of common interest. The committee approved the proposal unanimously. 
The committee also discussed a working paper from the Commission on possible 
solutions to problems of authorisation for energy projects. 
3.2.2 Telecommunications 
Following the adoption of the telecommunications Guidelines, the Guidelines 
Committee met for the first time on 12 November. The Committee gave 
unanimously a favourable opinion on the draft Commission decision adopting the 
TEN-Telecom multiannual Work Programme and the contents of the open calls 
for proposals for the 1998 TEN-Telecoms projects. 
3.2.3 Transport 
The transport Guidelines committee met on 28 and 29 April. The main point on 
the agenda was the preparation of the "implementation report" foreseen by 
Article 18.3 of the Guidelines and of the "Guidelines revision report" required by 
Article 21.1. The committee also discussed the setting up of a geographic 
information system (GIS), the inclusion of ports and other interconnection points 
in the transport TEN and strategic environment assessment. 
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3.3 TEN financial assistance committee 
The TEN financial assistance committee met five times in 1997. In its 
"horizontal" composition the committee met once, in November, to discuss, 
among other matters, the Commission's annual report to the Luxemburg 
European Council and the annual report pursuant to Article 16 of the TEN 
financial assistance regulation. The work of the committee in its sectorial forms is 
described in section 4 below. 
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Table 1 : COMMUNITY FINANCING OF THE TEN IN 1997 (million ECU) 
Sector 
TRANSPORT 
ENERGY 
TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
TELEMATIC NETWORKS 
' , . ' Type of assistance 
Loans 
Loan guarantees 
Grants 
Grants, interest rate subsidies, 
loan guarantees and co-financing 
of studies 
Loans 
Guarantees 
Grants 
Co-financing of studies 
Loans 
Guarantees 
Grants 
Co-financing of feasibility and 
validation studies 
Grants instrument 
niB89 
(of which 14 specific 
projects) 
EIF8* 
ERDF q l0 
Cohesion Fund 
TEN budget line B5-700 
(of which 14 specific projects) 
EIBS" 
E1F89 
ERDFg'° 
TEN budget line B5-710 
EIB89 
EIF "" 
ERDF910 
TF.N budget line B5-720 
TEN budget line B5-721 1993-1994 7 
3 847 
2 483 
75,9 
884,0 
1 887,0 
385 
180 
1 082 
207,7 
675,7 
0 
3 105 
156,1 
294,7 
21,9 
71,8 1995 7 
3819 
1 603 
85,2 
115,0 
1 108 
240 
181,5 
910 
11,90 
87,8 
12,2 
839 
19,40 
0 
22,6 
47,36 1996 ? 
3 504 
1 189 
303 
2 639 
1 088 
280 
211 
1 415 
270 
I 265 
8,9 
1 602 
9 
173 
16,1 
44 1997 ? 
4 943 
1 601 
55 
527,4 
1 901 
352 
211 
854 
3,75 
277,3 
24,2 
1 880 
276 
0 
26,6 
46,7 TOTAL to date I 
16113 
6 876 
519,1 
4 165,4 
5 984 
1 257 
783,5 
4 262 
493,35 
2 305,8 
45,3 
7 426 
460,5 
467,7 
87,2 
210,06 
Moneys committed; 
Signed contracts. 
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4. FINANCING THE TEN 
Table 1 above gives an overall picture of Union financing of the TEN. 
4.1 TEN financial assistance Committee 
4.1.1 Energy 
The Committee met on 19 September and approved 16 feasibility and other 
studies in the field of energy for which the Commission is proposing grant aid 
totalling ECU 18 million. Further details are to be found in Annex IV. Including 
commitments made earlier in the year, on the basis of proposals approved by the 
Committee in 1996, total commitments for 1997 come to around ECU 24 million. 
Table 2: TEN energy - Commitments 
ELECTRICITY 
GAS 
TOTAL 1995 
MECU 
6.5 
5.7 
l,£»M-m % 
53% 
47% 
; 100% 1996 
MECU 
3.7 
5.2 
$.9 % 
42% 
58% 
100% 1997 
MECU 
9.2 
15.0 
242 % 
38% 
62% 
ioo% 
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4.1.2 Telecommunications 
The Committee met in its telecommunications composition on 25 July and 
adopted a favourable opinion on granting Community financial aid for projects 
selected in 1997. On the basis of this opinion 40 projects were selected for 
support. These projects were the result of three separate calls for proposals. 
The first call was made in March 1997 and was based on the 1995 Euro-ISDN 
Decision, but it also took account, as far as possible, of the new context set by the 
Guidelines which were adopted subsequently. Twelve projects of common 
interest were selected for Community financial support concerning generic 
services, services for SMEs and telecommunications applications in the health 
sector. 
A series of 13 projects of common interest was selected on the basis of a second 
joint call for proposals on Educational Multimedia, published end 1996. These 
projects are in areas such as distance training and learning and the provision of 
multimedia communication platforms for school networks. 
Finally, 15 regional projects in 11 Member states were selected for Community 
financial support concerning the promotion of electronic commerce for SMEs in 
the tourism sector. This selection was based on a call for proposals published 
mid-1996. 
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The total Community financial support for the 40 projects amounts to 21 MECU. 
A list of all these projects may be found in annex V. 
4.1.3 Transport 
As regards transport, the TEN financial assistance committee held two meetings 
in 1997 and gave a favourable opinion on 125 projects and studies for which the 
Commission proposed financial assistance totalling ECU 352 million. Some 50 
of the actions chosen were a continuation of (or complementary to) actions 
previously supported; Annex VI gives full details. 
The Commission received no less than 311 requests for financial assistance, 
many of them for relatively minor sums. In view of the heavy administrative 
burden that their processing and management entails, the Commission persuaded 
the Committee to limit requests for financial assistance for transport projects in 
the future to a minimum of ECU 500.000. However, in duly justified exceptional 
cases this limit may be lowered. 
As can be seen from Table 3, the Commission has continued to concentrate the 
greater part of its available resources (60%) on the 14 specific "Essen" projects 
(including rail traffic management). The proportion given over to other projects 
of common interest (25%) has increased substantially as compared to 1996. 
Transport: Table 3: Project categories 
14 specific projects confirmed by the Essen 
European Council (includes 9 MECU for rail 
traffic management) 
Traffic management (all modes except rail) 
Other important projects of common interest 
(other than the 14 specific projects) 
TOTAL Support 97 
(MECU) 
2.11 
52 
89 
352 % 
'97 
60 
15 
25 
100 '96 
75 
18 
7 
100 
From the point of view of the forms of intervention, table 4 shows that in 1997 
the share of direct grants and interest rebate subsidies increased by major 
proportions - 53% and 66% respectively - while feasability studies declined by a 
substantial 36%. 
Transport: Table 4: Forms of Intervention 
Feasibility studies/Technical support measures 
Direct grants 
Interest rebates 
TOTAL Support 97 
(MECU) 
175 
140 
37 
352 % 
'97 
50 
40 
10 
100 '96 
68 
26 
6 
100 
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As can be seen from Table 5, by far the greater part of Union spending on 
transport under Regulation 2236/95 goes to rail projects (58%), with roads (18%) 
and traffic management (15%) in second and third places. The support for 
airports this year (6%) shows an important increase over last year. 
Table 5: Transport modes 
Rail (including traffic management) 
Road 
Inland waterways 
Sea/Ports 
Airports 
Traffic management (all modes except rail) 
TOTAL Support 97 
(MECU) 
204 
62 
4 
9 
21 
52 
352 % 
1997 
58 
18 
1 
2 
6 
15 
100 1996 
62 
13 
1 
1 
1 
22 
100 
4.2 IDA 
IDA projects (E-mail and horizontal actions, support for European Agencies and 
sectorial actions) are financed independently of the TEN financial assistance 
regulation but mention is made of them here for the sake of completeness. In 
1997 the Commission approved financial contributions of ECU 37,5 million for 
the various actions supported by IDA; details are to be found in Annex VII. 
4.3 ERDF 
The European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund are by far the 
main sources of Union grants for TEN projects, as table 1 above clearly brings 
out. The two tables below detail total ERDF funding in the energy and transport 
sectors in 1997: details are to be found in Annex IX. 
Table 6. Total ERDF energy sector 1997 
Member States 
SPAIN: 
GREECE: 
ITAL Y.­
PORTUGAL: 
TOTAL Programmed 
ERDF 
contribution 
1994-99 
(MECU) Commitments 
up to 1997 
(MECU) 
period 1994-99 
92,7 
203,0 
55,8 
304,0 
655,5 75,1 
189,5 
16,2 
123,0 
403,8 Commit­
ments in 
1997 
(MECU) 
1997 
174,8 
80,5 
-
22,0 
277,3 Ref./Obs. 
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Table 7. Total ERDF transport sector 1997 
TOTAL 
GREECE: 
IRELAND: 
ITALY: 
PORTUGAL: 
UK: 
FINLAND: 
TOTAL TRANSPORT Programmed 
ERDF 
contribution 
1994-99 
(MECU) Commitments 
up to 1997 
(MECU) 
period 1994 - 99 
1163,2 
364,5 
1045,0 
213,0 
123,8 
7,4 
2916,9 640,1 
133,0 
384,5 
-
-
3,7 
1161,3 Commit­
ments in 1997 
(MECU) 
1997 
358,4 
52,5 
33,8 
72,6 
6,4 
3,7 
527,4 Ref./Obs. 
(1!) 
In 1997 the following programmes and projects were the main beneficiaries of 
commitments for ERDF funding. 
Energy 
• The introduction of natural gas into Greece; 
• The introduction of natural gas into Portugal and the interconnection of the 
Portuguese grid to the Spanish networks under INTERREG II; 
• The Spanish section of the Algeria-Morocco-EU gas pipelines and extensions 
to some Andalusian cities; 
• The introduction of natural gas into new Spanish regions (Western pipeline 
project and the Valencia-Orihuela-Cartagena project); 
• Upgrading of the existing LNG terminal at Huelva and Cartagena. 
Transport: 
. PATHE and VIA EGNATIA motorways in Greece; 
• Athens - Thessaloniki railway; 
• Trunk roads in Italy; 
• Trunk roads in Ireland; 
• Rail projects in Portugal. 
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4.4 Cohesion Fund 
Table 8 below gives the annual commitments made by the Cohesion Fund in 
favour of TENs transport projects since 1993 in each of the beneficiary Member 
States. These figures include commitments for projects adopted in the year in 
question as well as new annual instalments for projects adopted previously. 
Table 8: Cohesion Fund TEN financing: Total by Member States. 
MEMBER STATES 
SPAIN 
PORTUGAL 
GREECE 
IRELAND 
TOTAL 1993 
606.4 
160.8 
105.1 
86 
95&3 1994 
498.9 
200.2 
134 
96 
"2"»x 1995 
610.2 
240.5 
159.7 
97.2 
1107,6 1996 
678.8 
221.5 
202.4 
121.8 
M****** A. 1997 
665.7 
190.9 
28.3.0 
111.5 
| 1251.1 1993-1997 
3059.5 
1 10134 
9v^*"» 
512*4 
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Table 9 below provides a breakdown of annual commitments by transport sector. 
This illustrates the continuing predominance of roads in Cohesion Fund 
financing, reflecting the needs and priorities of the Member States concerned. 
However, in terms of absolute figures, the financing of other transport modes 
such as railways and ports is nevertheless important. 
Annex IX gives the latest position regarding assistance from the Cohesion Fund 
for the five specific projects which directly concern the cohesion countries, 
namely: High-speed train south, Greek motorways, Portugal/Spain-rest of the 
EU multimodal connections, Cork-Dublin-Belfast rail link and the Ireland-UK-
Benelux road corridor. 
Project n° 8 (Multimodal link Portugal-Spain/Europe) has changed in scope in 
1997 in line with the agreement reached at the Dublin European Council in 
December 1996, the priority project is now the "Portugal-Spain-rest of Europe 
multi-modal corridor". In the light of the enlargement of the scope of the project, 
the amount of Cohesion Fund assistance committed in 1997 and later years is 
considerably larger than in the 1993-1996 period. 
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Table 9: Cohesion Fund Ten Financing: Total by Modes. 
Sector 
Roads & 
motorways 
Railways 
Ports 
Airports 
Vessel 
Traffic 
Systems 
Total 1993 
672.6 
162.2 
16.1 
91.7 
15.6 
ma % 
70 
16 
1 
9 
1 
100 1994 
619.6 
278.5 
31 
0 
0 
m,t % 
66 
29 
3 
0 
0 
too 1995 
832.5 
178.4 
67.4 
23.7 
5.5 
urns % 
75 
16 
6 
2 
1 
100 1996 
959.5 
222 
23 
15.7 
4 
WA& % 
78 
18 
2 
1 
0 
100 1997 
707.6 
407.7 
21.3 
110.3 
4.2 
12514 % 
57 
33 
2 
9 
xm Total 
1993-
1997 
3791.8 
1248.8 
158.8 
241.4 
29.3 
$470*1 % 
"W 
££ 
* 
4 
1 
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4.5 EIB loans 
The development of Trans-European networks remains one of the EIB's top 
priorities. This was reflected again in the Bank's lending activity during the year 
1997, with total new loan approvals by the EIB's Board of Directors of ECU 9 318 
million and finance contract signatures of ECU 7 677 million, representing one 
third of the Bank's activity in the Member States. Since 1993, the Bank has 
approved loans in favours of TENs and related projects for a total of ECU 
42 141 million (a 28% increase since last year) and signed finance contracts for a 
cumulated ECU 27 801 million (38% more than at the end of last year). The total 
investment cost of corresponding projects is estimated at ECU 132 000 million. 
See annex X. 
Loans approved by the EIB in 1997 for TENs in the transport sector amount to 
ECU 7 033 million (ECU 7 542 million in 1996), resulting in a total of ECU 
28 023 million of loans approved for that sector to date. Finance contract 
signatures reached ECU 4 943 million in 1997 (ECU 3 504 million in 1996), 
which brings the cumulated amount to ECU 16 113 million. 
For the 14 transport projects that were given top priority at the Essen European 
Council, new loan approvals reached ECU 2 708 million in 1997, for a cumulated 
total of ECU 11 157 million. Finance contracts for ECU 1 601 million were 
signed in 1997 (ECU 1 189 million in 1996), which brings the total amount of 
signatures to date to ECU 6 876 million. New loans approved and signed were 
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mainly for the first and second phases of the PBKAL high-speed train, the Nordic 
Triangle and Greek motorways. 
In the energy sector, ECU 670 million of new loans were approved in 1997 for 
gas and electricity TENs (ECU 875 million in 1996), for a cumulated amount to 
date of ECU 5 559 million. With ECU 854 million of new loan signatures in 
1997 (ECU 1 415 million in 1996), their cumulated amount now reaches ECU 4 
262 million. With an ECU 300 million new loan approved and signed in 1997 for 
one of the 10 Essen priority projects in the energy sector, cumulated loan 
approvals stand at ECU 2 548 million and finance contract signatures at ECU 2 
040 million. 
In 1997, the EIB also provided new loans for European telecommunication 
networks, but not covered by the TEN telecommunication Guidelines, with ECU 
1 616 million of approvals (ECU 1 373 million in 1996) and ECU 1 880 million 
of signatures (ECU 1 602 million in 1996). A total of ECU 8 559 million of 
loans has thus been approved to date. Finance contracts signed to date reach a 
total of ECU 7 426 million. About 74% of new loans signed and 85% of those 
approved in 1997 were for mobile telephony projects. 
Following the June 1997 European Council "Resolution on growth and 
employment", which urged the EIB "to step up its interventions in the area of 
large infrastructure networks", the Bank's commitment to support the TENs was 
renewed and reinforced with the approval by its Board of Governors of an 
"Amsterdam Special Action Programme" which, among other things, includes 
measures in favour of TENs and related infrastructure: 
• To support project preparation, 
• To provide loans with longer maturities and grace periods, 
• To raise the ceiling of lending to 75% (instead of 50%) of 
project cost (on an exceptional case-by-case basis, when it is 
deemed appropriate), 
• To prepare tailor-made packages for priority projects when 
necessary and 
• To co-operate with the Commission, the EIF and the member 
states in designing new financial instruments and encouraging 
the establishment of PPPs. 
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Table 10: EIB lending for TEN (MECU) 
Transport 
(Essen projects) 
Energy 
(Essen projects) 
Telecoms12 
TOTAL 1993 
1908 
1346 
367 
207 
1005 
Mm 1994 
1939 
1137 
715 
315 
2100 
4754 1995 
3819 
1603 
910 
523 
839 
5568 1996 
3504 
1189 
1415 
695 
1602 
6521 1997 
4943 
1 601 
854 
300 
1 880 
7677 Total 1993-97 
16 113 
6$76 
s 4m 
2040 7426 
27 $01 
4.6 EIF guarantees 
At the end of 1997 the total EIF portfolio of approved operations since its 
inception stood at ECU 3 000 million of which ECU 2 200 million had been 
signed. Of this, TEN projects accounted for ECU 1 548 million, corresponding to 
67% of the total (transport 37%, energy 30% and telecommunications 33%). 
Overall signatures for 1997 were 769 million (guarantees) and 33.5 million 
(equity). Of the total of guarantees, ECU 336 million (82%) were for TEN 
projects, including 278 million in telephone projects, all for mobile telephone 
networks13, in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy and Hungary. One operation was 
signed in energy (Portugal, 4 million) and transport (Greece, 55 million), 
respectively. 
Since the creation of the EIF, TEN operations have been guaranteed in nine 
member states (Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, 
Spain, UK) and outside the EU, in Hungary, Slovakia ans the Norwegian sector 
of the North Sea. 
Details of these operations are to be found in Annex XI. 
Table 11: EIF loan guarantees for TEN 
Transport 
Energy 
Telecoms 
TOTAL 1994 
75.9 
207.7 
156.1 
r 4mf 1995 
85.2 
11.9 
19.4 
ll&S 1996 
303 
270 
9 
582 1997 
55 
3.75 
276 
334.75 Total 
1994-97 
•J7JL3''** 
493,35 
4&X5 
1472M 
12 The telecommunication projects do not come within the TEN-Telecom Guidelines 
13 Idem 
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4.7 ESCS Loans 
In 1997 the Commission signed and disbursed two ECSC loans for a total of 130 
ECU million for the benefit of TEN projects. These loans concern two 
Portuguese projects on transport (a new bridge over the Tagus) and energy 
(natural gas network). 
4.8 EEA Financial Mechanism 
The European Economic Area Financial Mechanism gave a grant of ECU 7 
million for the upgrading and expansion of Lanzarote airport (Spain). It also 
approved interest rebates on a loan of ECU 156.5 million for the Athens ringroad 
(part of PATHE), on a loan of ECU 40 million for Irish road improvements and 
on a loan of ECU 68 million for extensions at Lanzarote, Tenerife and 
Fuerteventura airports (Spain). 
4.9 Member States' financing 
Union financing of TEN represents in most cases a small proportion of the total 
cost, except for some projects in the "cohesion" countries. The greater part of the 
funding comes either from the public authorities of the Member States or, 
especially in the energy and telecommunications sectors, from the private sector. 
The Member States' administrations, however, have not so far been able to 
provide the Commission with statistics of their TEN spending. 
4.10 Financing infrastructure in third countries 
With the opening of enlargement negotiations, the linking of the Union's Eastern 
European and Mediterranean Basin neighbours to its transport, 
telecommunications and energy TEN is more than ever important and urgent. 
Given the relative poverty of these countries, however, substantial financial 
assistance from the international community at large and from the Union in 
particular is needed. In "Agenda 2000" the Commission argued that it was the 
trans-European nature of the benefits from these projects which justified 
continued substantial contributions at the Union level towards their realisation.14. 
In 1997, the EIB approved ECU 509 million of lending for new transport network 
projects in Central and Eastern Europe and signed ECU 427 million of finance 
contracts. New loan approvals and signatures for telecommunications projects in 
the same group of countries reached respectively ECU 667 million and ECU 357 
million. 
In January 1997 the Ecofin Council agreed new lending mandates for the EIB in 
Central and Eastern European countries and in the Mediterranean Basin. At the 
invitation of the Council the EIB has established a pre-accession facility for an 
overall amount of up to ECU 3 500 million for the period up to 31 January 2000. 
14 "Agenda 2000" I, pages 11 and 56-5" 
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In 1997, the EIB approved a new loan for the Spanish component of the 
Morocco-Spain electrical interconnection for which it had financed the Moroccan 
component in 1994. A loan was also approved and signed for the GR2 gas 
pipeline in Algeria, which feeds into the two gas pipelines connecting North 
Africa to Europe through Italy and Spain. 
In the spring of 1997 the Commission reorganised PHARE's investment strategy 
in the Central and Eastern Europe countries; this will result in an increase in 
spending on infrastructure extending TEN in that region in particular the 
candidate countries. Commitments of new funds in 1997 were approximately 
ECU 159 million of which the vast majority was allocated to transport 
infrastructure projects. Included in these commitments are ECU 100 million 
which the EP requested to be allotted to infrastructure projects specifically for 
extension of TEN-Transport along the Crete/Helsinki corridors in Central and 
Eastern Europe. 
Table 12 below analyses these commitments by country and sector: 
Table 12: Phare infrastructure financing 1997 
Country 
Bulgaria 
Czech Republic 
Estonia 
Hungary 
Latvia 
Lithuania 
Poland 
Romania 
Slovakia 
Slovenia 
Multicountry 
Border-Crossings 
TOTAL TRANSPORT 
(MECU) 
0 
4.16 
5 
33.7 
4.1 
4.5 
91 
0 
0 
6.3 
9.1 
157*86 ENERGY 
(MECU) 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0.8 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0.8 TELECOM 
(MECU) 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
* 
Improving infrastructure links with the New Independent States (NIS) is one of 
the objectives of the Tacis programme, which can now spend up to 10% of its 
annual budget on investment, including small-scale infrastructure projects, in the 
context of cross border co-operation. In 1997 Tacis committed around ECU 50 
million on such projects in the transport and energy fields. 
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Spending by the MEDA programme to link better the countries of the 
Mediterranean Basin to the Union is at present marginal (but very useful), being 
limited to a small number of feasibility studies. 
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5. FINANCING THE TEN: OTHER ISSUES 
5.1 Giving impetus to the "Essen" projects 
In view of the financing difficulties faced by the 14 projects selected by the Essen 
European Council, the Commission recommended in its submission to the 
Luxemburg European Council on Employment15 that, for each of the "Essen 
projects", the Member States concerned, in liaison with the Commission, should 
establish a firm timetable and financing plan to provide the demonstration of 
political commitment to implementation that is essential to create the necessary 
momentum for decisive action on individual projects, and to create confidence 
that networks benefits will be captured. This was endorsed by the European 
Council in its conclusions16. 
5.2 Agenda 2000 and the future financial perspectives 
"Agenda 2000" makes a number of important statements about the future 
development of TEN: 
(1) "Agenda 2000" states that the development of internal policies is a first 
priority.17 Elsewhere it specifies that TEN have a special place as a key 
theme in the context of internal policies18. 
(2) The document argues that TEN have a particularly important role to play 
in creating new links with the Central and Eastern European candidate 
countries.19 
(3) It calls for additional funding to be identified beyond present 
appropriations.20 The budgetary resources for TEN should grow faster 
than GNP21 and more than proportionately to the enlarged Community 
GDP22. 
15SEC(97)2168,p. 12 
16 Presidency Conclusions, SN300/97 
17 For a stronger and wider Union, Part 1, Beyond 2000. p. 17 
1S For a stronger and wider Union, Part 3, Section III, sub-section 3, p. 68 
1°> Fora stronger and wider Union, Pan 1, Section I, sub-section 1, p. 18 
20 "Agenda 2000" I, page 11 
2 '. For a stronger and wider Union. Vav: 3, Section 11, sub-section 3, p. 64 
22 Impact Study, Part III, Section 3, p. 134 
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(4) The document declares that effective coordination of the various sources 
of finance for TENs, including development of public/private financing, is 
essential.23 
(5) As regards selection criteria, "Agenda 2000" urges that concentration on a 
small number of key projects of high quality and proven Union interest, 
thus ensuring significant impact, is to be the guiding principle for the 
future24 25. 
(6) Finally, the report reaffirms that greater use must be made of forms of 
assistance other than grants - interest-rate subsidies, guarantees, venture 
capital holdings and other holdings26. The document also mentions several 
times the need to involve private capital and expertise through public / 
private partnerships 27. 
5.3 Promoting Public / private partnerships (PPP) 
5.3.1 Kinnock High-Level Group and follow-up 
The High-level Group on public / private partnership financing of TEN transport 
projects was set up by the Commission, with the agreement of the Transport 
Council, in September 1996. The group comprised individuals representing all 
parts of the private sector having an interest in the provision of transport 
infrastructure, as well as representatives of the public sector nominated by their 
Ministers of Transport. The Group adopted its final report in May 199728. 
The Commission endorsed fully the recommendations of the Group. It adopted 
on 10 September a communication to the Council, to the European Parliament, to 
the Economic and Social Committee and to the Committee of Regions setting out 
how it intended to implement the recommendations which the Group had 
addressed specifically to it29. 
The EIB, which participated actively in the work of the High-Level Group, gave 
its full support to the Group's recommendations and decided to step up its co­
operation with the EIF and the Commission in order to better combine existing 
funding sources, to further develop existing financial instalments (including 
23 Impact Study, Part III, Section 3, p. 134 
24 For a stronger and wider Union, Part 3, Section III, sub-section 3, p. 68 
25 Impact Study, Part III, Section 3, p. 134 
26 For a stronger and wider Union, Part 1, Section II, sub-section 5, p. 26 
27 For a stronger and wider Union, Part 3, Section II, sub-section 2, p. 63 
23 Finn! report of the High-level Group or, public • private partnership financing of TFN transport projects (VII/321/97) 
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loans with long maturities and grace periods) and, if necessary, to develop new 
instruments. 
The Commission presented the group's report to the June meeting of the 
Transport Council, and the communication to its October meeting as well as to 
the Ecofin October meeting. The Transport Council adopted unanimously a set of 
conclusions calling for Member States to use all appropriate means wherever 
possible to develop PPP's. 
5.3.1.1 Public procurement 
The Group recommended that the Commission should elaborate specific 
Guidelines which would provide greater clarity with regard to public procurement 
procedures to be followed for the award of transport infrastructure contracts. 
Private sector concerns and specific points in EU procurement rules have been 
examined in order to promote a regulatory framework where flexibility, publicity, 
negotiation and call for tender would be key issues. The High-Level Group 
conclusions provide a major contribution to the consultation process on the Green 
Paper on Public Procurement. 
The Commission intends to present soon a Communication on Public 
Procurement, forming the framework for guidelines on the application of the 
public procurement legislation to infrastructure projects, covering the relationship 
between the Public Works (97/37/EEC) and the Utilities (93/38/EEC) Directives, 
the technical dialogue during the conception phase and other contractual aspects 
ofPPP. 
5.3.1.2 Competition policy 
The Group found that prospective PPP partners were uncertain of the 
implications of EU competition legislation. Accordingly the Commission issued 
on 30 September a communication clarifying its recommendations on the 
application of the competition rules to new transport infrastructure projects30. 
As in the case of public procurement, it is impossible for the Commission to 
propose general rules on exemption from Union competition legislation for large-
scale transport infrastructure projects. The Commission therefore urges all 
interested parties to contact its services as early as possible to discuss the 
competition issues raised by these projects with a view to solving them. 
5.3.1.3 Development of financing instruments 
The Group concluded that structurally subordinated loans and early operational 
stage loans offered a means to alleviate risks caused by uncertainties in early 
operational stage cash-flow generation. In its communication, the Commission 
emphasised that these instruments already exist on a limited scale. It suggested 
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therefore that their availability should be developed within the framework of the 
Union's financial institutions with support from Union resources, if necessary 
and appropriate, to help the emergence of a genuine market. The Commission 
also announced its intention, in consultation with the EIB and EIF, of examining 
the setting up of a mezzanine fund focused on TEN projects. The Commission 
began exploratory discussions with the financial markets about such a fund. 
5.3.1.4 Innovative and proactive support 
As recommended by the Group, the Commission intends to take a certain number 
of initiatives, with the technical support of the EIB and the EIF, in order to ensure 
the optimal and coordinated use of the public resources provided by the TEN 
budget line and the Union's financial institutions. Such initiatives would clearly 
need to be supported by the Member States concerned. The Commission intends 
to encourage and facilitate the early involvement of the private sector in project 
design, and to ensure that support from the range of Union-level financial 
instruments is provided in a co-ordinated way most suited to individual projects. 
5.3.1.5 Network and trans-European benefits and a PPP database 
The Group recommended that trans-European and network benefits should be 
taken into account when assessing projects and that a European-wide database of 
PPP projects should be set up. The Commission intends to step up its research 
into common methodologies, in co-operation with Member States, and to explore 
the possibilities for the establishment of a PPP database. 
5.4 Improving coordination 
In parallel with its communication on the implementation of the PPP High-level 
Group's recommendations, the Commission took a number of steps in September 
to improve internal coordination among its services (and with the EIB, the EIF 
and other international financial institutions) involved in financing TEN projects. 
These steps aim at reinforcing strategic priority setting, at encouraging and 
facilitating the pro-active funding coordination on individual projects and at 
achieving a better exchange of information between the various financial 
instruments. 
5.5 SEM 2000 and Evaluation 
In the context of its "SEM (Sound and efficient management) 2000" programme 
the Commission attaches high priority to evaluating its actions. In November the 
Commission accordingly discussed with the TEN financial assistance committee 
its plans for mid-term evaluation in 1998 of its financial support for TEN 
transport projects. It also launched an evaluation study on Euro-ISDN with a 
view to reporting to the Parliament and Council by mid-1998, in accordance with 
Article 10 of Decision 2717/9531 
31 JO L282 November 1995 
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6. EXTERNAL RELATIONS 
6.1 Enlargement and the pre-accession strategy 
By way of preparing for enlargement, the Commission submitted two 
communications to the Council and Parliament on the external dimensions of 
TEN in the energy32 and transport sectors.33 
The "Energy Networks" conference in Berlin in December highlighted the 
importance of network development not only for the Union's energy supply, but 
also for international cooperation and development generally 
A meeting in December in Bucarest between the Union and the Black Sea 
Region countries approved a memorandum identifying priority energy projects of 
common interest in the Balkans which would interconnect the Union's energy 
networks with those of the Black Sea Region. 
The Commission played a major role in the organisation and successful 
conclusion of the Third Pan-European Transport Conference in Helsinki in 
June 1997, gathering more than 1000 transport decision-makers and experts. The 
Conference recommended the adjustment of the corridor concept initiated in the 
previous Conference in Crete by a few extensions to the nine existing corridors, 
the creation of a new tenth corridor crossing the territory of the former Federal 
Republic of Yugoslavia, and the inclusion of the concept of "Pan-European 
Transport Areas". It also reinforced the multimodal character of these concepts 
through the inclusion of aviation (international airports) and water transport 
(important maritime and river ports), and highlighted the importance of 
telematics and other intelligent applications in the development of pan-European 
transport infrastructure. 
The Senior Officials Group of the Transport Infrastructure Needs Assessment 
(TINA) met in November and took note of the interim report on the 
developments so far. The regional groups have already done substantial work in 
collecting and analysing information on the existing infrastructure, and 
methodology for the TINA analysis has been developed. Studies on traffic flows 
and infrastructure unit costs are under way. The technical secretariat was set up in 
Vienna, financed by the Phare programme, and the whole process is now in full 
swing; the first results will be available in 1998. 
Given the administrative problems of the Central and Eastern European countries, 
they stand to benefit particularly from participation in IDA and other European-
level telematic programmes. The Commission held discussions in the course of 
the year with the relevant Central and Eastern European countries' 
administrations. 
.:: COM (97) 125 26 March 1997 
33 COM (97) 172 23 April 1997 
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As regards telecommunications the Commission intends to extend the TEN-
Telecom to Central and Eastern European countries, NIS and Mediterranean 
countries through joint actions with the PHARE, TACIS and MEDA 
programmes, along the following lines: 
• involvement of Central and Eastern European countries and Mediterranean 
countries in TEN-Telecom projects with emphasis in pre-accession countries 
on TEN-Telecom projects reflecting accession priorities; 
• extension of successful TEN projects with complementary support on the 
investment cost, e.g., in the infrastructure network, coming from other sources 
than TEN-Telecom funding; 
• development of interconnectivity/interoperability projects for fixed, satellite 
and mobile communication networks; 
• awareness actions among potential user communities. 
To this purpose a working paper is being prepared by the Commission. 
On 4 December 1996 the Commission adopted a report to the Council34 on 
cooperation between the EU and the Central European Initiative. The report 
mentions TEN as one of several priority sectors where the Union would be 
willing to cooperate with the Central European countries involved in the 
Initiative. 
With a view to increasing infrastructure investments in the countries of Central 
and Eastern Europe related to its pre-accession strategy, the Commission has 
identified its coordination efforts with EIB, EBRD and IBRD. In October 1997 it 
launched a working group to develop a framework contingency agreement and 
the identification of suitable projects to be financed by them and its Phare aid 
programme. 
6.2 Structured dialogue 
On 27 May 1997 a joint ministerial meeting with the countries of Central and 
Eastern Europe took place in the field of energy at which various aspects of the 
external dimension of energy networks were discussed. 
On 9 October the Union Transport Ministers and their CEEC counterparts 
discussed, among other things, the results of the Helsinki Pan-European 
Transport Conference and progress being made in the "Transport Infrastructure 
Needs Assessment". 
?4 C0M(96) 601 4 December 1996 
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7. THE TEN AS A SOURCE OF EMPLOYMENT 
As set out in the Commission Communication "Community policies in support of 
employment"35 to the Luxemburg European Council on Employment, TEN have an important 
role in a medium term employment strategy. Efficient transport, telecommunications and 
energy infrastructures are vital for EU competitiveness, and thus for long-term growth and 
sustainable jobs. EU industry needs efficient transport systems, telecommunication networks, 
and energy supply both to keep costs down and to allow it to provide better service. 
Though it is their medium term impact on competitiveness that is crucial in job creation 
terms, the TEN also create significant numbers of temporary jobs during the construction 
phase. 
Having regard to the provisions on employment in the Amsterdam Treaty, and in particular 
Article 127.2 thereof, and using statistical information on the implementation of the TEN, the 
Commission will pursue its work in assessing and reporting on the employment and other 
outcomes of the different projects. 
More specifically, for the information society, there is a need for sustained effort by the 
private and public sectors to broaden the market, in particular in areas of public interest. It is 
also urgent to enhance the quality of Internet-based generic services, supporting in particular 
the development of multimedia satellite services. 
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8. OTHER UNION POLICIES WITH A TEN DIMENSION 
8.1 European company statute 
The existence of a European Company Status would facilitate the creation of 
"project entities" to organise and implement major infrastructure projects and 
would allow their development into profit-making bodies once construction 
starts. At present no suitable legal vehicle exists at Union level, thus 
unnecessarily increasing project costs and hampering development. Following the 
publication of the "Davignon report" in the spring, the Social Affairs Council 
discussed the question on 15 December and deliberations will continue during 
1998. 
8.2 Environment 
The Commission continued throughout the year its work on developing a 
methodology for the strategic environmental assessment of TEN networks and 
corridors as a whole, as opposed to individual projects. It is expected that this 
research will be completed in 71998. 
"Agenda 2000" underlined that the expansion of TEN would serve to enhance 
sustainable development and should be accompanied by a move to sounder 
transport systems, drawing fully on new technology, to address the problems of 
congestion, pollution and climate change. 
3<L 
1. ANNEX I: PROGRESS MADE 0>N TEN ENERGY NETWORKS 2 
2. ANNEX II: PROGRESS MADE ON TEN TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
PROJECTS 10 
3. ANNEX III: PROGRESS MADE ON THE 14 SPECIFIC "ESSEN" 
PROJECTS 11 
4. ANNEX IV: ENERGY PROJECTS FINANCED IN 1997 UNDER 
REGULATION 2236/95 13 
5. ANNEX V: TEN-TELECOM PROJECTS FINANCED IN 1997 17 
6. ANNEX VI: TRANSPORT PROJECTS FINANCED IN 1997 UNDER 
REGULATION 2236/95 19 
7. ANNEX VII: IDAPROJECTS FINANCED IN 1997 24 
8. ANNEX VIII: MAJOR TEN PROJECTS FINANCED BY THE ERDF IN 
1997 26 
9. ANNEX IX: MAJOR TEN PROJECTS FINANCED BY THE REGIONAL 
AND COHESION FUND UP TO END 1997 29 
10. ANNEX X : EIB LOANS FOR TEN AND TEN-RELATED PROJECTS IN 
1997 30 
11. ANNEX XI: EIF GUARANTEES FOR TEN AND TEN-RELATED 
PROJECTS IN 1997 33 
1. ANNEX I: PROGRESS MADE ON TEN ENERGY NETWORKS 
Short indication of the stage reached by the projects of common interest 
included in the Guidelines by end 1997 
ELECTRICITY NETWORK PROJECTS 
PROJECT OF COMMON INTEREST 
SPECIFICATION T STAGE REACHED AND 
orcuinuMiiun E.U. FINANCIAL INTERVENTION 
Island Magee - Coylton link. Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: 
2000. 
CSF: 81 MECU. 
44 GREECE * ITALY: Connection by submarine cable of Greek network, to Italian 
network through North-Western Greece and South-Eastern Italy. 
Ipiros - Puglia link. Project declared as "priority projecf'at the 
Essen Summit (December 1994). 
Authorisation procedures. 
Commissioning: 2000 
REGEN (35 MECU); 
INTERREG II (78,5 MECU); 
EIB loan (100 MECU). 
a? UNITED KINGDOM; Connection by submarine cable of the tsle of Man, 
North-West England - Isle of Man link. Feasibility studies and seabed survey. 
Commissioning: 1999. 
TEN line: 1997 decision for co-financing of 
studies. 
b1 OERMANY* DENMARK: Connection by submarine cable between the German network 
• (UCPTE) and Denmark's Eastern network (NORDEL). 
Bjaeverskov-Bentwisch link In operation since 1996. 
b4 ' - FRANCS -BELGIUM: Completion of connection between the two countries' networks 
- through North-Eastern France and Southern Belgium, 
Moulaine - Aubange line Authorisation procedures. 
Commissioning: 1999. 
M FRANCE * GERMANY- Strengthening of the connections between the two countries. 
Vigy (FR) - Marlenheim (FR) - Uchtelfangen (DE) line. Authorisation procedures. ^^^ 
PROJECT OF COMMON INTEREST 
SPECIFICATION STAGE REACHED AND 
orcuirioMi IUIM E[J F|NANC|AL INTERVENTION 
Commissioning: 1999. 
be FRANCE - ITALY: Connection between the two countries' networks through South* 
Eastern France and North-Western Italy, 
Grand Tie - Piossasco line. Project declared as "priority project" at the 
Essen Summit. (December 1994). 
Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: 
2000. 
TEN line: 1995 decision for co-financing of 
studies. 
b7 FRANCE - SPAIN; Land connection between the two countries' networks through 
South-Western France and Northern Spain 
Cazaril - Arag6n line or alternative route/layout, Project declared as "priority project" at the 
including connection to the Sallente - Sentmenat Essen Summit (December 1994). 
line. 75% of the Spanish line built. Project 
suspended. 
Feasibility studies on new routes ongoing. 
Commissioning: (1998) postponed. 
TEN line: 1995, 1996 and 1997 decisions for 
co-financing of studies 
b9 BELGIUM«LUXEMBOURG: Connection between the two countries* networks, 
Aubange - Bertrange Authorisation procedures. 
Commissioning: 2000. 
b10 SPAIN-PORTUGAL: Strengthening and completion of connections between the two 
countries through the regions of Northern Portugal and North­
western Spain 
^~ Project declared as "priority project" at the 
Essen Summit (December 1994). 
Mes6n - Lindoso line. In operation since 1996. 
CSF (Spain): 3 MECU 
ElBloan: 26 MECU 
Aldeadavila - Douro International line Pre-feasibility studies. Commissioning: 2004. 
b10(a) SPAIN ^PORTUGAL; New connection between the two countries through the Southern 
region of Portugal and the South-West of Spain 
Balboa - Sines line. Pre-feasibility studies. 
Commissioning: after 2000. 
TEN line: 1997 decision for co-financing of 
studies. 
SPECIFICATION STAGE REACHED AND 
o i A ,U E.U. FINANCIAL INTERVENTION 
b11 FINLAND - SWEDEN: Strengthening interconnections North of the Gulf of Bothnia 
Petajaskoski (FIN) - Letsi (S) line. Increasing of the transmission capacity of 
Pikkarala (FIN) - Keminmaa (FIN) - Svartbyn (S) line. these lines through the installation of 
compensation devices. 
Studies under finalisation. Commissioning: 
1997. 
TEN line: 1995 decision for co-financing of 
studies. 
b12 AUSTRIA -ITALY:: Strengthening connections between the North of Italy and the 
Austrian network. 
Lienz - Cordignano line. Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: 
2004. 
TEN line: 1995 decision for co-financing of 
studies. 
b13 IRELAND - UNITED KINGDOM (N. IRELAND): Strengthening of connections between Ireland and 
Northern Ireland* 
Specification not yet defined. Feasibility studies. Commissioning : after 2000. 
TEN line: 1997 decision for co-financing of 
studies. 
b14 AUSTRIA»GERMANY: Strengthening of the connections between the two countries 
St Peter - Isar line. Pre-feasibility studies. Commissioning: after 
2000. 
bl£ THE NETHERLANDS-UNITED KINGDOM: Connection by submarine cable between South* 
Eastern England and Central Netherlands, 
Rotterdam area - South-Eastem England link Feasibility studies. Seabed survey in 1998. 
Commissioning: after 2000. 
TEN line: 1997 decision for co-financing of 
studies 
c2 * DENMARK: Connections by submarine cable between the country's Western 
(UCPTE) and Eastern (NORDEL) networks. 
Fyn - Sjaelland Project declared as "priority project" at the 
Essen Summit (December 1994) 
Project decided. Financing of the project not 
finalized. 
Commissioning: (1997) postponed 
C3 THE NETHERLANDS; Strengthening connections in the North-East of the country. 
Zwolle - Meeden - Eemshaven line. In operation since 1996. 
PROJECT OF COMMON INTEREST 
QPFPIFIPATinN STAGE REACHED AND 
orc E.U. FINANCIAL INTERVENTION 
c4 FRANCS: Strengthening connections in the North-East of the country. 
Sierrentz - Mulbach line. Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: 
1999. 
c& ITALY: Strengthening and developing connections on the East-West axes in the 
North of the country and on the North-South axis. 
Connections on the East-West axis: 
- Vado Ligure - Morigallo line. Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: 
2004. 
TEN line: 1995 decision for co-financing of 
studies. 
- Caorso - San Damaso line. In operation. 
- Rondissone-Castelnuovo/Scrivia line. In operation. 
-Turbigo - Rho line. Under construction. Commissioning: 1999. 
- Turbigo - Baggio line. Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: 
2000 
- Gorlago - San Fiorano line. Under construction. Commissioning: 1997.. 
- San Fiorano substation. Under construction. Commissioning: 1997. 
- Turbigo - Piedilago line. Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: 
2004. 
- Piedilago pumping station. Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: 
2004. TEN line: 1995 decision for co-financrng 
of studies. 
Connections on the North-South axis 
- Tavarnuzze - Poggio a Caiano - Calenzano line. Under construction. Commissioning: 1997 
- Pietrafitta - Santa Barbara line. Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: . 
after 2000. TEN line: 1995 decision for co-
financing of studies. 
- Santa Barbara - Tavarnuzze line. Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: 
2000. TEN line: 1995 decision for co-financing 
of studies. 
- Tavarnuzze substation. Authorisation procedure. Commissioning: 1998. 
- Matera - Santa Sofia line. Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: 1998. 
- Galatina - Taranto Nord line Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: 1998 
- Pian della Speranza/Roma Nord - Montalto/Suvereto Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: 1998 
line. . . . ' _ 
$5{a) ITALY: Strengthening and development of connections on the Easi-W*st axis in 
the North-West of the country and on the North-South axis In the Centre 
of the country 
Connections on the East-West axis; 
- Chivasso - Magenta line. Feasibility studies. Commissioning: between 
2000 and 2002. TEN line: 1997 decision for co-
_ . ^ . .. financing of studies. 
- Colunga - Calenzano line. Feasibility studies. Commissioning: between 
2000 and 2002.TEN line: 1997 decision for co-
financing of studies. 
Connections on the North-South axis: Feasibility studies. Commissioning: between 
- Pietrafitta - Villavalle line. | 2000 and 2002. TEN line: 1997 decision for cor 
<5pFriPir A-rinN STAGE REACHED AND 
artoiMUA MUN E.U. FINANCIAL INTERVENTION 
financing of studies 
c$ SPAIN: Strengthening and developing connections in the regions in the North of 
the country and in the regions along the Mediterranean axis. 
Connections in the North; 
- Soto-Penagos-Guefies-ltxaso line. Authorisation procedures. Some sections are 
under construction. Commissioning: 2000. 
TEN line: 1995 and 1997 decisions for co-
financing of studies. 
- Aguayo - "Penagos-Barcina" line. In operation since January 1997. 
Connections on the Mediterranean axis; 
- Almeria - Rocamora line. Under construction. Commissioning: 1997. 
- Pinar - Tajo line. Under construction. Commissioning: 1997. 
EIB loan: 25 MECU. 
- Caparacena - "Tajo-Almeria" line. In °Peration since Januarv 1 "7" 
- Sentmenat - Bescan6 line. Feasibility studies. Commissioning: 2004. 
TEN line: 1996 decision for co-financing of 
studies. 
- Bescan6 - "Vic - Baixas" line. Feasibility studies. Commissioning: 2004. 
TEN line: 1996 decision for co-financing of 
studies 
c7 PORTUGAL; Strengthening connections necessary for interconnections with Spain \n 
the North and Centre of the country. 
Pego - Rio Maior II line. Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: 
1998. 
Recarei-Douro International line. Feasibility studies. Commissioning: 2001. 
TEN line: 1995 decision for co-financing of 
studies 
c8 GREECE: Strengthening connections on the East-West axis in the North of the 
. . country 
Arachthos - Ptolemai's line. Pre-feasibility studies. Commissioning: after 
2000. 
c» IRELAND: Strengthening of connections in the North-West of the country 
Connections in the county of Donegal. Feasibility studies. Commissioning: after 2000. 
TEN line: 1997 decision for co-financing ofl 
studies. I 
1 I 
PROJECT OF COMMON INTEREST 
SPECIFICATION STAGE REACHED AND 
E.U. FINANCIAL INTERVENTION 
c10 SPAIN: Strengthening and development of connections in the North-East and 
West of the country, in particular to connect to tbfc network production 
capacities of electricity generated from wind-power. 
Connections in the North-East: 
- in Alava, Aragon and Navarra. Feasibility studies. Commissioning: after 2000. 
TEN line: 1997 decision for co-financing of 
studies. 
Connections in the West; 
- in Galicia. Feasibility studies. Commissioning: after 2000. 
TEN line: 1997 decision for co-financing of 
studies 
C11 SWEDEN: Strengthening and development of internal connections 
Connections in Northern Sweden Feasibility studies. 
Connections in Central Sweden Feasibility studies. 
Connections in Southern Sweden. 
c12 GERMANY: Development of connections in the North of the country 
Authorisation procedures. Some sections 
under construction 
Lubeck/Siems - Gorries - Gustrow line. Gorries-Gustrow: commissioned in 1996. 
Lubeck/Siems - Krummel line. Commissioning of the complete lines: 1998 
d2 GERMANY - POLAND; Strengthening of the connections between the two countries 
Hagenwerder - Mikulowa line. Feasibility studies. Commissioning: 1998 
Neuenhagen (DE) - Vierraden (DE) - Feasibility studies. Commissioning: 2000. 
Krajnik (PL) line. 
d3 GERMANY » NORWAY: Connection by submarine cable between Northern Germany (UCPTE) 
and Southern Norway (NORDEL) 
Brunsbuttel - Southern Norway link. Authorisation procedures and feasibility 
studies. Commissioning: 2003. 
dS ITALY-SWITZERLAND: Strengthening connections between Northern Italy and 
Switzerland 
S. Fiorano-Robbia line. Under construction. Commissioning: 1998. 
Piedilago - Airolo line. Authorisation procedures. Commissioning: 
2004 
PROJECT OF COMMON INTEREST 
SPECIFICATION STAGE REACHED AND 
E.U. FINANCIAL INTERVENTION 
m GREECE» BALKAN COUNTRIES: Strengthening of connections between Greece and, 
respectively, Albania* Bulgaria and former^ 
YugosiaviaJncluding the restoration of the connections 
with the North of former-^Yugosiavia and the UCPTE 
network 
Philippi (GR) - Plovdiv or Maritsa 3 (Bulgaria) line. 
Amintaio (GR) - Bitola (FYROM) line. 
Thessaloniki (GR) - Mostar (Bosnia) - Melina (Croatia) 
line. Feasibility studies. TEN line: 1997 decision for 
co-financing of studies. 
Feasibility studies. TEN line: 1997 decision for 
co-financing of studies 
Pre-feasibility studies. 
d9 GREECE -TURKEY: Connections between the two countries through North-Eastern Greece 
Section in Greece: 
- Thessaloniki - Philippi line. 
- Philippi - GR/TU border line. 
Section in Turkey. Under construction. Commissioning: 1998. 
Pre-feasibility studies. 
Pre-feasibility studies 
dIOUNITED KINGDOM - NORWAY: Connection by submarine cable between the 
North/Eastern/Eastern England Ana Southern Norway (NORDEL). 
Specification not yet defined. Feasibility studies. Seabed survey in 1998. 
Commissioning: 2004. 
TEN line: 1997 decision for co-financing of 
studies. 
d11 THE NETHERLANDS - NORWAY: Connection by submarine cable between the North-Eastern 
Netherlands {UCPTE) and Southern Norway {NORDEL}, 
Eemshaven - Lista link. The "NorNed cable" project. 
Feasibility studies and seabed survey. 
Commissioning: 2001. 
TEN line: 1996 decision for co-financing of 
studies. 
d!3 SPAIN « MOROCCO: Connection by submarine cable between Southern Spain and the 
Moroccan network. 
Pinar - Tetouan link. Under construction. Commissioning: 1997. 
TEN line: 1995 decision for co-financing of 
studies. 
INTERREG: 12.5 MECU. 
d14 S3AUTK? RING; GERMANY ~ PQUWP - RUSSIA « ESTONIA ~ LATVIA - LITHUANIA - SWEP5N ~ 
Strengthening and developing connections between these countries* networks by overground 
and/or submarine cables 
OPACIFICATION STAGE REACHED AND 
E.U. FINANCIAL INTERVENTION 
An overall feasibility study for the Baltic Ring 
projects is ongoing. TEN line: 1995 decision for 
co-financing of studies. 
Southern Finland - Vyborg (Russia) In operation. Feasibility studies for increasing 
- Saint Petersburg (Russia) link. the capacity. TEN line: 1996 decision for co-
financing of studies. EIF loan guarantee: 
requested. 
Sweden - Finland link In operation. Feasibility studies for increasing 
(through submarine cable) the utilisation of the existing link. 
TEN line: 1996 decision for co-financing of 
studies. 
Sweden - Poland link Feasibility studies. 
(through submarine cable). TEN line: 1995 and 1997 decisions for co-
financing of studies 
Germany - Poland - Lithuania - Belarus Feasibility studies. 
- Russia (East-West High Power Link). TEN line: 1996 and 1997 decisions for co-
financing of studies. 
Poland - Lithuania link. Feasibility studies. 
TEN line: 1995 decision for co-financing of 
Other connections: specification not yet defined. 
Grundfors - Narvik line Authorisation procedures. 
Mid-Sweden - Mid Norway. Pre-feasibility studies. 
South-West Sweden - Oslo region line. Feasibility studies. TEN line: 1997 decision. 
for co-financing of studies. 
d1$ EU - BELARUS » RUSSIA * UKRAINE; 
Development of connections and interface between the (extended) UCPTE network and the 
networks of third countries in Eastern Europe, including th# relocation of the HVDC conversion 
stations operating previously between Austria and Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic and 
Germany and the Czech Republic 
Connections between the UCPTE and CENTREL In operation since December 1995. 
systems. Feasibility studies for improving the stability 
of the interconnected operation of the two 
systems. TEN line: 1997 decision for co-
financing of studies. 
Connections between the UCPTE/CENTREL Feasibility studies. 
systems and the Balkan countries. PHARE: financing of studies for the connection 
of Albania, Bulgaria and Romania. 
Connections and interface between the extended Feasibility studies. PHARE/TACIS: financing of 
UCPTE system and Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, interface study. 
including the relocation of existing HVDC conversion TEN line: 1997 decision for co-financing of 
stations. studies concerning the relocation of conversion 
stations of Wien Sudost and Durnrohr. 
2. ANNEX II: PROGRESS MADE ON TEN TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROJECTS 
Projects in bold font have been completed 
Contract 
TI 1.1/95 
TI 1.2/95 
TI 2.51/95 
TI 2.52/95 
TI 2.8/95 
TI 1.71.3/96 
TI 2.31/95 
TI 2.32/95 
TI 2.33/95 
TI 2.71/95 
TI 2.72/95 
TI 1.31/96 
TI 1.31.1/96 
TI 1.21.3/96 
TI 1.3/95 
TI 1.51.1/96 
TI 1.51.2/96 
TI 1.51.3/96 
TI 1.61.5/96 
TI 2.1/95 
TI 2.2/95 
TI 1.11.3/96 
TI 1.41,2/96 
TI 1.6/95 
TI 2.61/95 
TI 23.62/95 
TI 2.63/95 
TI 2.64/95 Title 
Euro labels Profiles 
Euro-ISDN migration 
Euro-ISDN platform for 
teleworking 
TELTEST 
INFORMS 
TEN-TREND 
VIRTUE 
PLATO 
WIRE 
SENECA 
TARGET 
MOSAIC 
DCC 
PADEIA 
Euro-ISDN BB 
TAGIS 
NO PROBLEMS 
GTS 
DYP 
PH-NET 
Euro-Traficom 
MEDSALUS 
INFOCITIES 
EGL-EK 
IEMP 
PROTONET 
SPORTNET 
TELEBUSINESS Main 
contractor 
FT Expcrtcl 
OVUM 
TELES 
WRC 
IDATE 
Empirica 
EUROSPACE 
2000 
DT 
EADTU 
SEMA 
North West 
Institute 
Banca di 
Roma 
CSC Ploenzke 
AG 
Telecom 
Finland 
SSE 
Global One 
INFONOVA 
Eur. 
Dynamics 
Electronic 
Trade Center 
Commune di 
Bologna 
ARS 
Telefonica de 
Espana 
City of Den 
Haag 
FT Expcrtel 
OMP 
INTRASOFT 
INTERSPOR 
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PRODUTEC Total Cost/ 
EU 
contribution 
(Kecu) 
740/740 
491/491 
315/158 
2058/1.029 
2118/1.126 
5.896/2.948 
1.366/678 
1.180/590 
1.260/630 
759/397 
977/488 
1.612/844 
3.360/1.680 
990/495 
208/208 
3.600/1.700 
3.013/1507 
1.107/440 
2.515/1.258 
1.500/750 
2612/1.231 
1.026/513 
10.103/5.000 
321/321 
530/264 
1.969/984 
1.529/764 
971/485 Contractural 
period start/end 
4.96/6.97 
4.96/4.97 
4.96/6.97 
4.96/7.97 
4.96/10.97 
2.97/8/98 
4/96/4.98 
4.96/4.98 
4.96/4.98 
4.96/1097 
4.96/12.97 
5.97/5.98 
1.97/1.98 
2.97/2.99 
4.96/4.97 
1.97/3.98 
1.97/7.98 
1.97/1.98 
2.97/1.99 
4.96/4.98 
4.96/4.98 
2.97/11.97 
2.97/2.99 
4.96/4.97 
4.96/2.98 
4.96/2.98 
4.96/2.98 
4.96/2.98 
10 
3. ANNEX ni: PROGRESS MADE ON THE 14 SPECIFIC "ESSEN" PROJECTS 
PROJECT 
1) High Speed train/combined 
transport North-South 
2) Paris -Brussels-
Koln/Frankfurt- Amsterdam-
London (PBKAL) 
3) High Speed Train South 
4) HST Pahs eastern France-
south-western Germany (TGV 
Est) 
5) Betuwe Line 
6) High Speed Train / 
Combined Transport - Lyon-
Turin-Trieste 
7) Greek Motorways 
8) Multimodal link Portugal-
Spain - Europe LENGTH (km) 
950 
1176 
1 601 
551 
160 
734 
1580 COST 
(MECU) 
14802 
17 232 
14 072 
4777 
4094 
18 260 
9242 
5900 AUTHORISATIONS/ 
TECHNICAL SITUATION 
Building permissions 
progressively awarded for 
sections; technical studies to be 
launched for Brenner base 
tunnel 
Some delays; now all sections 
on track 
Procedures completed for some 
sections; technical studies 
launched for others 
Permissions available for D part. 
Political decision taken to build a 
1s* phase between Vaires-
Vandieres for F part. 
All political and administrative 
decisions have been taken. 
Declaration d'Utilite Publique 
launched for Lyon-Montmelian 
section; administrative 
Authorisation procedures 
launched for Torino-Venezia 
Work on-going on several 
sections; building perm, 
awarded, technical studies and 
tendering procedures under way 
for others 
Procedures completed for 
certain sub-projects; technical 
studies under way for others FINANCING 
Partly secured; 
some difficulties 
remain 
Partly secured; 
some difficulties 
remain. PPP 
possible for NL 
section 
Partly secured; 
some difficulties 
remain 
Difficulties remain 
with French part 
Public sector will 
finance the cons­
truction, private 
sector involve­
ment in exploi­
tation foreseen 
Partly secured; 
some difficulties 
remain 
Three PPP-
schemes on 
PATHE 
Subst. support 
from ERDF and 
Cohesion F. 
expected; some 
difficulties remain STAGE 
Berlin-Leipzig: work well under way; Leipzig-Nurnberg: 
work started on sections, Brenner Tunnel still at study 
stage 
Construction work well under way on Belgian and 
German sections; started on Dutch section 
Construction work under way on 2 sub-projects of 
Madrid-Barcelona section. 
Final technical studies launched on French part, works 
should start in 1999 on the section Vaires-Vandieres, 
upgrading works started on German section 
Construction already started on Port-line. 
For the A-15 line final planning procedures are near 
completion. Construction is planned to start mid 1998. 
Works started in some key nodes in Italy, technical 
studies on-going on international section 
Initial work under way for three PPP-schemes on 
PATHE, and some others 
Work on sections of Linha do Norte, Beira Baixa (rail) 
and Lisboa-Valladolid (road) under way; studies on 
further projects COMMENTS 
Member States concerned intend to 
establish an EEIG for Brenner base 
tunnel to carry out the design 
Some delays, but most non-financial 
problems resolved. Brussels-Paris 
HSL completed 
International section at study stage 
through an EEIG 
High political priority 
Very early stage of construction, 
after delays. The project is planned 
to be finished in year 2005. 
Franco-Italian summit on 3 October 
1997 launched three year study 
programme for international section 
Substantial support from ERDF and 
Cohesion Fund 
Large range of separate sub-
projects, of which several still at 
study stage 
11 
9) Conventional rail link Cork-
Dublin-Belfast-Larne-Stranraer 
10) Malpensa Airport 
11) Oresund Fixed road/rail 
Unk 
12) Nordic Triangle Multimodal 
corridor 
13) Ireland-UK-Benelux road 
link 
14) West Coast Main Line 502 
1 800 
1530 
850 357 
1047 
4158 
10 070 
3 629 
3000 All completed 
On track 
On track 
Building permissions being 
awarded for one section; 
technical studies under way for 
others 
Studies on various sections 
under way 
Studies under way Some difficulties 
remain in Nl 
section 
Financing in place 
Financing in place 
Partly secured; 
some difficulties 
remain 
Uncertainties 
remain 
Financing secured, 
PPP Cork-Dublin-Belfast section completed; remainder to be 
completed by 2000 
Construction work well under way, to be completed by 
2000 
Construction work on most of project 
Work under way on E 18 and E 6 roads and main rail 
axes in Finland and Sweden 
Construction work nearing completion in Ireland, 
uncertainty for the UK sections 
Construction work started to modernise line Largely completed thanks to ERDF 
and Cohesion Fund support 
To be opened in 1998 (first phase) 
On time, completion by 2000 
Large range of separate sub-
projects 
UK's national roads programme 
subject of a strategic review 
Partnership between private 
infrastructure and service 
companies , with public subsidy 
12 
4. ANNEX IV: ENERGY PROJECTS FINANCED IN 1997 UNDER REGULATION 2236/95 
Commission decision C (97) 1867 of 24 June 1997 
(List of studies co-financed) 
WfflfflBÊfflk 
•tëiiîiiXiiiiiiiîiiih»: 
E36/96 (c10) SPAIN - Red Eléctrica de Es pa fi a 
Reinforcement of the high voltage electricity networks in 
Aragon, Alava and Navarra in particular to cope with planned 
increase of wind generation capacity. 
Economic feasibility, environmental impact and technical 
studies. 490 50 245 
E37/96 (c10) SPAIN - Red Eléctrica de Espana 
Reinforcement of the high voltage electricity network in 
Galicia in particular to cope with planned increase of wind 
generation capacity. 
Economic feasibility, environmental impact and technical 
studies. 700 50 350 
E39/96 (d16) GERMANY - RWE Energie 
Inter area oscillations in the UCPTE/CENTREL electricity 
power system. 
Dynamic behaviour analysis and remedial studies. 600 50 300 
E42/96 (b13) IRELAND - Electricity Supply Board 
Coordinated development of the electricity transmission 
networks in the two parts of Ireland. 
Feasibility study : share of the Republic of Ireland. 348 50 174 
E43/96 (a7) UNITED KINGDOM -The National Grid Company PLC 
Electricity interconnection (submarine cable) UK-Isle of Man. 
Economic feasibility and engineering studies (excluding sea 
bed survey). 870 50 435 
E44/96 (b15) UNITED KINDGOM -The National Grid Company PLC 
Electricity interconnection (submarine cable) UK-
Netherlands. 
Economic feasibility and engineering studies 
(excluding sea bed survey). 1,000 50 500 
E45/96 (d10) UNITED KINGDOM -The National Grid Company PLC 
Electricity interconnection (submarine cable) UK-Norway. 
Economic feasiblity and engineering studies 
(excluding sea bed survey). 800 50 400 
E47/96 (d1S) SWEDEN - Svenska Kraftnat 
Increasing electricity transmission capacity between Sweden 
and South of Norway. 
Pre-feasibility, feasibility and technical specification studies. 1,000 50 500 
E50/96 (d16) AUSTRIA 
Ôsterreichische Elektrizitàtswirtschafts-AG 
Relocation of the high voltage AC-DC-AC conversion station 
ofWienSudost. 
Economic and technical feasibility study. 150 50 75 
E51/96 (d16) AUSTRIA 
Ôsterreichische Elektrizitàtswirtschafts-AG 
Relocation of the high voltage AC-DC-AC conversion station 
of Dumrohr. 
Economic and technical feasibility study. 150 50 75 
E54/96 (b13) UNITED KINGDOM - Northern Ireland Electricity PLC 
Coordinated development of the electricity transmission 
networks in the two parts of Ireland. 
Feasibility study : share of the United Kingdom. 145 50 72.5 
E56/96 (c5a) ITALY - ENEL S.p.A. 
Electricity connection Chirasso-Magenta (East-West axis). 
Preparatory study for licensing procedures and for 
, environmental impact assessment. 175 50 87.5 
13 
(c5a) ITALY - ENEL S.p.A. 
Reinforcement of North-South and East-West axis 
Pietrafitta - Villavalle and Colunga - Calenzano lines. 
Environmental impact studies. 
E59/96 (d8) GREECE - Public Power Corporation (PPC) 
Upgrading at 400 KV of the existing 150 KV electricity 
interconnection GREECE -
ex-Yugoslavia. 
Economic and technical feasibility and environmental impact 
studies. 250 50 125 
E60/96 (d8) GREECE - Public Power Corporation (PPC) 
New electricity interconnection Greece-Bulgaria. 
Preparatory, economical and technical feasibility 
environmental impact studies. 900 50 450 
and 
G7/96 (h14) ITALY - Edison S.p.A. 
Italian section of the VOLTA natural gas pipeline : from 
Slovenia/Italian border to Ostiglia. 
Detailed route design and wayleaves and preparation of 
detailed environmental impact assessment and other 
documents required for authorisations. 3,340 50 1,670 
G8/96 (h3) FINLAND-DENMARK-SWEDEN - Neste Group 
Nordic natural gas grid 
Overall feasibility study. 1,200 50 600 
G11/96 (g8(a)) SPAIN - ENAGAS 
Natural gas underground storage at Jumilla and Reus 
(Mediterranean axis) 
Preliminary sismic survey. 1,178 50 589 
G20/96 (h13) AUSTRIA - OMV Aktiengesellschaft 
The PENTA Main (North-South) pipeline system. 
Technical feasibility study of alternative routes, including 
evaluation of costs and environmental impact. 92 50 46 
G21/96 (g13) AUSTRIA - OMV Aktiengesellschaft 
The Eurostorage Baumgarten (ESB) : project to install a new 
underground storage facility at the cross roads of three 
major transit pipelines in Baumgarten. 
Feasibility study. 1,000 50 500 
G22/96 (f12) GREECE - Public Power Corporation (PPC) 
Greece - Albania : connection between the gas networks of 
the two countries. 
Technical and economic feasibility study, including gas 
demand definition, pipeline routing and design and financial 
viability study of the North Western Greece Natural Gas 
pipeline project. 370 50 185 
14,958 50 
TOTAL 7,479 
Same reference as in the guidelines Decision (OJ 
guidelines (OJ L152,11.06.1996). L161, 29.06.1996) and in the Decision amending these 
14 
COMMISSION DECISION C (97) 3352 OF 10 NOVEMBER 1997 
(List of studies co-financed) 
number^ 
8»*fctdy 
E64/97 
E65/97 
E66/97 
E67/97 
E68/97 
E69/97 
E71/97 
E73/97 
E74/97 
E76/97 
E77/97 
G23/97 
G25/97 MSttBER S¥AT£-£OJHPANY 
fcteHt$aai«?n Dfth&projept* 
sut>|ectofthe^ydy-
^trails swpa <tf foe sfady 
(b10(a)) SPAIN - Red Electrica de Espana S.A. 
Balboa - Portuguese border 400 kV electricity line. 
Feasibility, environmental and basic engineering study. 
(b10(a)) PORTUGAL - Rede Electrica Nacional S.A. 
Sines-Alqueva-Spanish border 400 kV electricity line. 
Evaluation, environmental, topographic, design and pegging 
study. 
(d14) GERMANY - Preussen Elektra AG 
East-West High Power Electricity Transmission system - Baltic 
route. 
Study (Phase 2) including technical, economic, financial, legal 
and environmental aspects. 
(d16) GERMANY - Bayemwerk Aktiengesellschaft (BAG) 
Appropriate sites in third countries of Central Eastern and 
South-Eastern Europe for the relocation of the HVDC back-to-
back stations of Etzenricht and Vienna-South East. 
Technical and evaluation study of 8 different sites in 7 countries. 
(b7) FRANCE - Electricite de France 
Installation of a 225 kV phase displacement transformer at the 
Pragneres substation. 
Technical and feasibility study. 
(c9) IRELAND - Electricity Supply Board 
Reinforcements in the North and West of the ESB transmission 
system and their interaction with ESB-NIE interconnection. 
Technical feasibility and environmental studies. 
(a7) UNITED KINGDOM - The National Grid Company Pic 
United Kingdom - Isle of Man electricity interconnector 
(submarine cable). 
Feasibility study (Phase 2) including sea-bed survey. 
(d10) UNITED KINGDOM - The National Grid 
Company Pic 
United Kingdom - Norway electricity interconnector (submarine 
cable). 
Feasibility study (Phase 2) including sea-bed survey. 
(d14) SWEDEN - Vattenfall AB 
Alternative layout for the Swedish-Polish Link (HVDC electricity 
interconnection). 
Additional technical feasibility study including sea-bottom survey. 
(c6) SPAIN - Red Electrica de Espafta SA 
Additional local route alternatives for the electricity line Soto-
Penagos. 
Technical and environmental study. 
(b13) UNITED KINGDOM - Northern Ireland 
Electricity Pic 
Coordinated transmission network development between Ireland 
and Northern Ireland. 
Environmental impact study. 
(fH) AUSTRIA - Steirische Ferngas Aktiengesellschaft 
The Krift-Pyhrn-Liezen gas pipeline, connecting the TAG and 
WAG pipelines and reinforcing gas supply to upper Styria. 
Detailed feasibility study (investigations, geological tests, 
technical planning, surveying, blueprints and listings, documents 
for authorization application, detailed documents for tender, 
preparation for contracting of the location of the line. 
(h6) AUSTRIA - OMV Aktiengesellschaft 
The TAG III gas pipeline, from Baumgarten to the Italian border 
along the routings of TAG I and TAG II. 
Technical, economical and environmental feasibility study. ItoECU 
$0$ 
250 
1077 
2170 
900 
200 
1370 
2030 
2700 
680 
110 
795 
797 
3000 cammfftiy 
mmsM 
p3&Bnfage 
ofthfc 
eligible 
i*>n 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 M&ft&um 
sawsntsf . m 
Cammtinfty 
iaaftfcfcd 
sapjxrft 
$ttE<m 
125.0 
538.5 
1085.0 
450.0 
100.0 
685.0 
1015.0 
1350.0 
340.0 
55.0 
397.5 
398.5 
1500.0 
15 
JV <r"s A .• % 1 
G29/97 
G30/97 
G31/97 if " %,w- , MEMBERSTATE*COMPANY, 
h ** - wi?,^'- ', ^t^t of the study 
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(g13) AUSTRIA - Rohol Aufsuchungs Aktiengesellschaft 
Expansion of the Puchkirchen underground gas storage and its 
connection to the MEGAL gas pipeline. 
Detailed feasibility and technical study for locating and 
construction of wells, facilities and pipeline including seismic, 
geological and reservoir studies, reservoir simulation, detailed 
technical planning, documents for authorisation, specification for 
tenders, right of way contracting. 
(g1) IRELAND - Marathon International Petroleum Ireland 
Limited (MIPIL) 
The Kinsale Area gas storage project. 
Feasibility study including seismic evaluation and drilling of a trial 
well. 
(g8) SPAIN - Enagas S.A. 
Underground gas storage at Huete. 
Detailed feasibility study (stages 1 and 2), including drilling of a 
first exploratory well and geological and seismic reservoir 
studies. 
TOTAL Maximum 
afcg&tecost 
of lbs stody 
{to ECU 
1X30} 
5824 
9900 
4195 
35,998 Community 
financJa} 
supports? 
percentage 
ttfthfc 
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cost 
£&%} 
50 
50 
50 Maximum 
amoun* of 
Cammtinity 
financial 
support 
On ECU 
'WO) 
2912 0 
4950.0 
2097.5 
17,999 
* Same reference as in the guidelines Decision (OJ L161, 29.06.1996) and in the 
Decision amending these guidelines (OJ L152, 11.06.1997). 
16 
5. ANNEX V: TEN-TELECOM PROJECTS FINANCED IN 1997 
1996 Projects 
(Call for Proposals OJ C107 and 573 of 13.4.96; 
Decision E/2016/96 of 18/10/96) 
PROJECT ! ' I Total I EU 
Cost Contribution 
INFOCITIES 10.103 5.000 
City Information Network § 
TEN-TREND 5.896 2.948 
Teleworking Remote Enterprise Network Development 
PAIDEIA 990 495 
Education and training 
MOSAIC 1.613 844 
Methods and Tools to create and maintain virtual museums. 
TAGIS 3.600 1.700 
Transeuropean access to generic ISDN-based services 
MEDSALUS 1.026 513 
Euro-ISDN professional telecollaboration Mediterranean 
network for healthcare sharing 
NO PROBLEMS 3.013 1.507 
Non proprietary reliable electronic mail systems 
DCC 3.360 1.680 
Common Digital platform for cultural content 
GTS 1.107 440 
Global Telecommunications Services - Generic Services 
DYP: Electronic Commerce for SMEs | 2.515 | 1.258 
1997 Projects 
(Call for Proposals O.J. C84 of 15.03.1997) 
Project Total TEN 
Cost Contribution 
TEN-TELEMED: Trans-European Network for telemedicine 3.678 1.400 
TELE-REMEDY: Remote diagnosis management and education 4.285 1.600 
in congenital heart disease: a cost effective telemedicine solution 
MELIC: Multimedia health information for citizens 2.659 1.814 
TELEPOLIS: Local income for content providers through billing 2.018 1.009 
and clearing services 
TEN-ICO-SAT-NET: Transeuropean networks via ICO Satellite 2.033 512 
network 
EURO^JOINT: Trans-European telematic advisory network in 2.334 1.167 
joining technologies for SMEs in automative sector . 
NABUCCO 1.723 800 
Network for access to business connection and co-operation for 
SMEs : 
LOGICD? 581 290 
Logiciel interactif pour la co-operation inter-enterprise et le 
partenariat ; 
HMS-STEADY: Hybrid Mail Service for Posts 248 124 
IBUT-ONE; ISDN Broadcasting Online TV. User Trial 346 150 
NITOURA: New Information technologies to open up rural areas 300 150 
AGR.EL.MA 
Online Transaction Databank of Agricultural Wood & Breeding 298 149 
Products 
17 
1997 Projects 
(Call for Proposals OJ C381 of 17.12.1996; 
Decisions n°2018 of 17.10.1997 and 2289 of 13.11.1997) 
Total EU 
cost Contribution 
(Kecu) (TEN-Telecom 
* budget) 
(Kecu) 
EASI-ISAE 
Vocational training software tools to assist intellectual and 587 401 
software developers in the production of multimedia 
VES The Virtual European School 1439 762 
ETUDE European Trade Union Distance Education 925 438 
ASTEP Advanced software for teaching and evaluation 902 705 
processes 
LILIENTHAL Multimedia off and on-line distance learning for 2217 1005 
European pilot training 
NETLOGO The European educational interactive site 566 306 
EXE Extranet education; effective use of telematics and 2111 1219 
hypermedia tools in education 
MENTOR 1800 874 
Multimedia education network for teaching, output and research 
VALASPI Experiment in the early learning of languages by 340 162 
video-conferencing 
SCHEMA Social care and higher education in marginal areas 688 688 
IN-TELE Internet-based teaching and learning 722 624 
EUN European Multimedia Schoolnet 1863 1.168 
POST-DOC Post Graduate Training for Doctors in Europe 1 789 | 682 
* Total cost eligible under TEN-Telecom budget only. These projects, selected following a joint call of 
several programmemes in the field of multimedia education, also receive support from other EU budget 
lines. 
1997 Projects: Regional Tourism - SMEs Electronic Commerce 
(Call for Proposals OJ C162 of 6.6.1996) 
Region Total Cost (Kecu) EU Contribution (Kecu) 
Carinthia-AU 855 130 
Bornholm-DK 100 30 
North Karelia-FN 240 120 
Corsica-FR 390 195 
Saxony-D 460 230 
Brandenburg-D 380 190 
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-D 460 230 
Crete-Gr 599 300 
Toscana-I 340 170 
Veneto-1 400 200 
Acores and Madeira-P 258 129 
Castilla y Leon-SP 270 135 
Galicia-SP 470 200 
North of England-UK 710 200 
Whole of Ireland 1 758 [ 360 
18 
(4) 
6. ANNEX VI: TRANSPORT PROJECTS FINANCED IN 1997 UNDER REGULATION 2236/95 
S = Study; P = Project; AP = Airport; AT = Air traffic management; C = Combined transport; I = Inland waterway; M = Motorway; MM = Multimodal; MT = Road 
traffic management; P = Port; R = Rail; TM = Traffic management; VT = Vessel TM; SP = Specific project; 
DG = Direct grant; FS = Feasibility study; ER = Interest rebate. 
Project Title 
Vienna - Schwechat Airport : Terminal extension to fulfill Schengen requirements. 
Renewal of the Voice Communication System and Remote Control Unit at the Area Control Centre in Wien 
Pontebbana axis:sub-project Gloggnitz-Miirzzuschlag: Trial bore for Semmeringbase tunnel (see also AU/96/003) 
Danube axis rail link, section Vienna - Austrian/Slovakian border upgrading PARNDORF-KITTSEE 
Brenner axis: design studies Lower Inn Valley section (see also AU/95/114a and AU/96/001) 
Danube axis rail link; section St. Polten -Vienna: EIA studies for new double track line in the context of upgrading to 4 
tracks 
Brussels - National (Zaventem) Airport: Surface accessibility study. 
CharierokBrussels inland waterway (works) 
Feasibility, ElA.technical studies on Closing of the Ringway R1 Antwerp-North (A1 motorway) 
Leipzig-Halle Airport: Soil Mechanics Studies and Surveys. 
Koln/Bonn - Konrad Adenauer Airport: HST Connection Terminal 2: Phase 1 
Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport: Layout studies and studies for road and rail access. 
New railway link "Stuttgart 21": Geological and hydrogeological exploration, including trial bore (STUDY) 
Havel-Oder inland waterway: widening of section near Niederfinow 
Elbe Inland waterway; port of Dresden-Friedrichstadt: extension of infrastructure 
Nurnberg-Amberg-Waidhaus -(Prague) motorway (A6): new sections Lohma-Waidhaus and Pfreimd-Woppenhof 
Motorway extension to 6 lanes between Kamen and Hannover (A2): junction Herford - border between Nordrhein 
Westfalen and Niedersachsen 
Feasibility studies (technical, economic, financial, legal, environmental) for a fixed crossing of the Wamow river at 
Rostock (see also DE/96/018) 
Feasibility study: HST line Berlin-D/PL border (- Warsaw) and Berlin - D/Cz border (- Prague) in current and new 
Technology 
New HST line Halle/Leipzig - Erfurt, section Leipzig - Leipzig airport; 
PBKAL: new HST line Kbln-Rhein/Main: Section Kbnigswinter Nord - Hochheim/FIOrsheim/Hattersheim; Los C 
Limburg - Weilbach/Massenheim Project 
Type 
P 
P 
P 
P 
s 
s 
s 
p 
s 
s 
p 
s 
s 
p 
p 
p 
p 
s 
s 
p 
p Mode 
AP 
AT 
R 
R 
R 
R 
AP 
I 
M 
AP 
AP 
AP 
R 
I 
I 
M 
M 
M 
R 
R 
R Project 
Support 
1,00 
0,90 
1,30 
3,00 
9,00 
0,90 
0,50 
1,20 
7,00 
1,60 
2,00 
1,00 
3,50 
0,80 
2,00 
6,51 
4,00 
0,46 
0,34 
16,00 
24,95 Category 
Other 
TM 
Other 
Other 
SP 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other 
SP 
SP Form 
DG 
DG 
DG 
DG 
FS 
FS 
FS 
DG 
FS 
FS 
DG 
FS 
FS 
DG 
DG 
DG 
DG 
FS 
FS 
DG 
DG 
19 
Data Acquisition for GLONASS/GNSS (DE/EU) 
TEN Telematic system study on transport logistics in the Baltic Sea area 
ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System) Feasibility Study for harmpnisation at the European level of 
safety and rail traffic management. 
North Atlantic ADS-B Network (NAAN) (WP0/WP1) 
Investigations concerning an East Harbour Tunnel in Copenhagen 
Port of Copenhagen, Approach Channel 
Investigations and detailed planning for the high-speed railway lines Copenhagen-Ringsted (part of line) and Arnus-
Fredericia (part of line). 
Construction of Danish access routes to 0resund 
Construction of the 0resund fixed link 
REDAN Phase Il/lll - Air Navigation Data network 
Madrid - Barajas Airport : Urbanisation and access study. 
ATC modernisation programme study 
Study on the Fourth ringroad at Zaragoza 
Study on the Motorway Levante-Somport. Section: Segorbe-Teruel 
Logistic system (ZAL) for Spanish Ports 
Studies and design studies on the Madrid-Zaragoza section, Phase II. 
Studies and design studies on the Madrid-Valladolid section, Phase I. 
Studies and design studies on the Fuentes de Oaoro-Valladolid section and the Galician Atlantic branch 
Studies and design studies on the Mediterranean Corridor 
Studies and design studies on the Sevilla-Cadiz line 
Pre-studies for connecting the high-speed lines in the Murcia region with the Mediterranean Arc and Madrid. 
Surveillance Analysis Support System (SASS) 
Satellite navigation (EGNOS)-East Mediterranean 
Feasibility study for the implementation of sole means satellite navigation. 
Implementation of traffic management and traffic information services in the Central European area (CENTRICO) -
Phase 3 
Study for traffic management and traffic information services in the Central European area (CENTRICO) - Phase 3 
Implementation of traffic management and information services in Northern Europe - VIKING (Phase 2) 
Study for traffic management and traffic information services in Northern Europe - VIKING (Phase 2) 
Study on traffic management and traffic information services on the TERN in the South European area - SERTI 
(Phase 3) 
Implementation on traffic management and traffic information services on the TERN in the South European area -
SERTI (Phase 3) s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
P 
P 
P 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
p 
s 
p 
s 
s 
p GT 
MM 
RT 
AT 
M 
P 
R 
R 
R 
AT 
AP 
AT 
M 
M 
P 
R 
R 
R 
R 
R 
R 
AT 
GT 
GT 
MT 
MT 
MT 
MT 
MT 
MT 0,50 
0,80 
9,00 
1,00 
0,50 
0,70 
1,00 
5,50 
10,00 
0,80 
1,50 
3,40 
1,00 
1,70 
0,75 
3,60 
3,20 
0,80 
0,50 
1,00 
0,50 
2,80 
0,60 
5,50 
3,53 
3,17 
1,19 
5,46 
3,10 
2,25 TM 
TM 
SP 
TM 
Other 
Other 
Other 
SP 
SP 
TM 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other 
SP 
SP 
SP 
Other 
Other 
Other 
TM 
TM 
TM 
TM 
TM 
TM 
TM 
TM 
TM FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
IR 
IR 
DG 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
DG 
FS 
DG 
FS 
FS 
DG 
20 
Study for the implementation of traffic management and information services on the TERN in the South West 
European area (ARTS) 
Implementation of traffic management and information services on the TERN in the South West European area 
(ARTS) 
ATM-ARTEMIS (implementation) 
Construction works on the high section of the Maurienne Motorway (A43) : Orelle tunnel, Sorderettes tunnel and 
pont des Chevres bridge 
Port 2000 le Havre (studies) 
HST East (preparatory works) 
HST East (technical studies) 
Studies on HST-South : Perpignan- Spanish border section 
VTMIS implementation 
VTMIS studies 
Preparatory works and studies "Peripheral Road of Attica" (Elefsina-Stavros-Spata Airport Motorway & Imittos 
Western Peripheral Motorway). 
Technical studies of Patras By-Pass road links with the New Port and the city of Patras. 
Road study "Siatista - Kristallopigi" 
Studies for the new double track and high speed line (normal gauge) from Ancient Corinthos until kilometre 40th of 
the railway line Corinthos-Patras 
Electronic Toll Collection on Motorways in Greece. 
Study for motorway traffic management in Greece 
Studies for the SSR Mode S Deployment in Italy (MOSDI) 
Malpensa 2000 
Bologna - G Marconi Airport : Landside and Airside Improvement Works 
Study for the completion of the definitive project of the HS/CT railway section Verona-Venice. 
Feasibility study for the HST/CT railway branch Venice-Trieste-(Lubiana). 
Technological infrastructure for the railway line Venice-Tarvisio (Pontebbana). 
Technological infrastructure for the railway line Adriatica, section Bologna - border Abruzzo/Molise. 
Upgrade of the gabarit and of the electric traction -line Genoa - Iselle a) Genoa - Novara, phase b) Novara -
Domodossola - Iselle. 
Upgrade Verona's railway premises (direct connection with the Brenner line). 
Luxembourg - Findel Airport : Terminal extension studies. 
Electrification of Luxembourg railway network 
Study and pre-implementation of an Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (A-SMGCS) 
Amsterdam - Schiphol Airport : Fifth runway studies. s 
P 
P 
P 
s 
p 
s 
s 
p 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
p 
p 
s 
s 
p 
p 
p 
p 
s 
p 
s 
s MT 
MT 
AT 
M 
P 
R 
R 
R 
VT 
VT 
M 
M 
M 
R 
MT 
MT 
AT 
AP 
AP 
R 
R 
R 
R 
R 
R 
AP 
R 
AT 
AP 0,50 
0,63 
1,40 
10,00 
0,50 
9,40 
3,60 
0,50 
0,29 
0,07 
8,00 
0,70 
0,25 
1,00 
0,20 
0,50 
1,00 
4,00 
1,91 
3,00 
0,60 
3,40 
8,00 
8,10 
4,00 
1,25 
1,00 
2,00 
2,55 TM 
TM 
TM 
Other 
Other 
SP 
SP 
SP 
TM 
TM 
SP 
SP 
SP 
Other 
TM 
TM 
TM 
SP 
Other 
SP 
SP 
Other 
Other 
Other 
SP 
Other 
Other 
TM 
Other FS 
DG 
DG 
DG 
FS 
DG 
DG 
FS 
DG 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
IR 
DG 
FS 
FS 
DG 
DG 
DG 
DG 
FS 
DG 
FS 
FS 
21 
Technical and design studies on the Dutch Section of the PBKAL 
Technical and design studies Betuweline 1997 
Port study Groningen seaports (Delfzijl and Eemshaven) "Turntable Groningen Seaports" 
VTS - improvements in the Netherlands 
New ATC centre in Santa Maria 
New Lisbon air traffic management and voice communications control systems - "GETALIS" 
Lisbon Airport : Expansion Studies : Phase 1 (1997). 
New Lisbon Airport : Location Studies: Phase 1 (1997). 
Masterplan of the Port of Setubal 
Northern Line: Installation of signalling, telecommunications and automatic high-speed controlling systems Alberg.-
Alfarelos; Pamp.-Quintans-Ovar 
Beira Baixa Line: studies on modernisation 
Northern Line: Studies on signalling and telecommunications on the sub-section Quintans-Ovar. 
Baltic Sea Telematic Platform, TEDIM 
Helsinki - Vantaa airport, construction of Middle terminal (Stage II) 
Studies on road sections (E18) in the Nordic Triangle in Finland 
Construction and improvement of road sections (E18) in the Nordic Triangle in Finland 
Studies concerning the Euro-Arctic corridor in Finland. 
Development of Port Infrastructure in the Nordic Triangle in Finland 
Studies on railways in the Nordic Triangle 
Construction and improvement of railways in the Nordic Triangle in Finland 
Acquisition of new icebreaker in the Nordic Tringle in Finland 
Construction of the Swedish access routes to Oresund 
E6 Lerbo - Torp road upgrading, Sweden 
Studies for Construction of a new double track: Helsingborg-Landskrona-Kavlinge 
Investigation for construction of a double track between Varberg City and Hamra (7,5 km) 
OSK: Construction of Oresund fixed link (linked to project N° 85) 
"Icebreaker 2000" 
Pre-operational studies for the integrated use of ADS/CPDLC 
Studies for traffic management and traffic information in Wales 
A75 Stranraer to Gretna Trunk Road: The Glen 
English studies on the Ireland -UK -Benelux Road Link 
UK Ports- Group of Studies 
The modernisation of West Coast Main Line, between London and Scotland, including works to allow passenger 
trains to travel at speeds at up to 200 kph s 
s 
s 
p 
p 
p 
s 
s 
s 
p 
s 
s 
s 
p 
s 
p 
s 
s 
s 
p 
p 
p 
p 
s 
s 
p 
s 
s 
s 
p 
s 
s 
p R 
R 
P 
VT 
AT 
AT 
AP 
AP 
P 
R 
R 
R 
MM 
AP 
M 
M 
MM 
P 
R 
R 
MM 
C 
M 
R 
R 
R 
MM 
AT 
MT 
M 
M 
P 
R 10,00 
10,00 
0,35 
0,60 
2,00 
1,00 
1,20 
0,74 
1,00 
0,70 
1,25 
1,55 
0,60 
1,40 
0,90 
3,30 
0,50 
0,70 
0,50 
3,70 
3,00 
5,00 
2,50 
2,00 
1,40 
10,00 
0,50 
0,80 
0,40 
1,30 
1,70 
0,70 
1,60 SP 
SP 
Other 
TM 
TM 
TM 
SP 
SP 
SP 
SP 
SP 
SP 
TM 
SP 
SP 
SP 
Other 
SP 
SP 
SP 
Other 
SP 
SP 
SP 
SP 
SP 
Other 
TM 
TM 
SP 
SP 
Other 
SP FS 
FS 
FS 
DG 
DG 
DG 
FS 
FS 
FS 
DG 
FS 
FS 
FS 
DG 
FS 
IR 
FS 
FS 
FS 
IR 
DG 
DG 
DG 
FS 
FS 
IR 
FS 
FS 
FS 
DG 
FS 
FS 
DG 
22 
Channel Tunnel Rail Link 
Feasibility study and associated design work for the modernisation of the West Coast Main Line 
Implementation of traffic management and information services on the TERN in Alpine area CORVETTE (Phase 2) 
Study for traffic management and traffic information services on the TERN in Alpine 
Study for the implementation of the Roman National Traffic Information Centre (ROMANTIC) 
EURO VDL Mode 2 - Phase 1 
Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, Studies for Runway 3 project 
Strategic environmental assessment study of the corridor Nord in France 
Strategic Environmental Assessment of the TENs - Comdor demonstration study for the Danube corridor 
Strategic environmental assessment study in the trans-Pennine corridor in the UK 
Strategic environmental assessment study Adriatic corridor Ravenna - Venice in Italy 
Implementation of 8.33 kHz channel spacing - Phase 1 s 
s 
P 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
s 
p R 
R 
MT 
MT 
MT 
AT 
AP 
MM 
MM 
MM 
MM 
AT 24,00 
7,40 
1,10 
1,35 
1,00 
1,00 
0,80 
0,07 
0,04 
0,15 
0,05 
0,50 
352,00 SP 
SP 
TM 
TM 
TM 
TM 
SP 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other 
Other FS 
FS 
DG 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
FS 
DG 
7. 
23 
7. ANNEX VII: IDA PROJECTS FINANCED IN 1997 
S1GL 
ANIMO 
PHYSAN 
SHIFT 
FIS IDES 
AGRIGATE 
SIMAP 
CCN/CSI 
EBTI 
QUOTA 
SCENT CIS /FISCAL 
SEED - Excise control 
TARIC 
TRANSIT 
VIES 
Support to customs projects 
Impl & Support at EC level 
X.500 Directories 
STATEL 
DSIS 
EXTRACOM 
SERT 
EtONET 
EMCDDA 
EMEA 935.750 
98.500 
886.500 
1.083.500 
0 
0 
2.462.500 
4.100.000 
1.180.000 
160.000 
1.900.000 
0 
1.500.000 
4.000.000 
1.900.000 
0 
1.014.550 
246.250 
738.750 
2.536.375 
738.750 
935.750 
200.000 
0 
400.000 -98.500 
-309.167 
-1.083.500 
413.600 
112.585 
-2.245.642 
-100.000 
-246.000 
-6.000 
264.000 
88.000 
282.000 
-210.000 
-176.401 
1.171.787 
400.250 
-477.261 
180.000 
300.000 935.750 
0 
577.333 
0 
413.600 
112.585 
216.858 
4.000.000 
934.000 
154.000 
1.900.000 
0 
1.764.000 
4.000.000 
1.900.000 
88.000 
1.296.550 
36.250 
562.349 
3.708.162 
1.139.000 
458.489 
380.000 
0 
700.000 
24 
RESMA 
Translation center 
Awareness & Promotion 
Legal framework 
Quality assurance 
Support to sectors 
TESTA 
Architecture 
information content interoperability 
National telematic systems 
Intra of E-Mail/Doc. repositories 
Technical Regulations 
Information System 
IMP 
ITCG 
FOURCOM 
CARE 
EURES 
TESS 
FIDES 
REITOX 
Official Documents of 
Interinstitutional Communication 
TOTAL:-. 300.000 
650.000 
640.250 
200.000 
394.000 
100.000 
1.740.000 
213.750 
246.000 
300.000 
492.825 
541.750 
0 
295.500 
689.500 
1.182.000 
726.000 
1.970.000 
246.000 
49.250 
1.250.000 
39.244.000 -280.900 
-290.000 
71.260 
100.000 
575.787 
-100.000 
2.645.000 
-43.750 
-246.000 
189.640 
861.275 
-21.550 
572.246 
49.960 
10.650 
-740.100 
-173.000 
-1.570.000 
-4.000 
124.040 19.100 
360.000 
711.510 
300.000 
969.787 
0 
4.385,000 
170.000 
0 
489.640 
1.354.100 
520.200 
572.246 
345.460 
700.150 
441.900 
553.000 
400.000 
242.000 
49.250 
1.374.040 
39,234,309 
25 
8. ANNEX VTJI: MAJOR TEN PROJECTS FINANCED BY THE ERDF IN 1997 
1. Natural gas 
Member State 
SPAIN: 
INTERREG IIB 
OTHERS 
GREECE: 
INTERREG IIB 
PORTUGAL: 
INTERREG II BE 
OTHERS 
TOTAL* Programmed 
ERDF 
contribution 
1994-99 
(MECU) Committ­
ments up 
to 1997 
(MECU) 
period 1994 -99 
80,0 
183,7 
140,0 
164,0 
567,0 70,4 
183,7 
123,0 
37©*,7 Committ­
ments in 
1997 
(MECU) 
1997 
51,0 
120,9 
80,5 
-
22,0 
274,4 Ref./Obs. 
committed in '96 
committed in '96 
committed in '96 
2. Electricity 
MS 
SPAIN: 
INTERREG II I 
Morocco 
GREECE: 
INTERREG IIB 
ITALY: 
INTERREG IIB 
TOTAtr Programmed 
ERDF 
contribution 
1994-99 
(MECU) 
period 1994 
12,7 
20,0 
55,8 
&S£ Committ­
ments up 
to 1997 
(MECU) 
-99 
4,7 
5,8 
16,2 
26,1 Funds 
Committed 
in 1997 
(MECU) 
1997 
1,8 
2,9 
-
• -
2,9 Ref./Obs. 
committed in '96 
committed in '97 
26 
3. Roads 
Roads 
GREECE: 
PATHE 
VIA EGNATIA 
IRELAND: 
ITALY: 
UK: 
FINLAND: 
TOTAL: Programmed 
ERDF 
contribution 
1994-99 
(MECU) 
period 1994 
907,0 
316,7 
249,0 
40,8 
5,8 
1732,3 Committ­
ments up to 
1997 (MECU) 
-99 
501,0 
332,7 
168,3 
133,0 
-
2,9 
-Committ­
ments in 1997 
(MECU) 
1997 
280,0 
141,0 
139,0 
52,5 
28,8 
6,4 
2,9 
369,9 Ref./Obs. 
committed end '96 
committments made in 
1996 
o 
4. Railways 
Railways 
GREECE: 
PORTUGAL: 
FINLAND: 
TOTAL: Programmed 
ERDF 
contribution 
1994-99 
(MECU) 
period 1994 
215,0 
213,0(2) 
1,6 
1069,4 Committ­
ments up to 
1997 
(MECU) 
-99 
118,2 
-
0,8 
503,5 Funds 
Committed in 
1997 
(MECU) 
1997 
63,5 
72,6 
0,8 
136,9 Ref./Obs. 
committed end '96 
0 
5. Airports 
Airports 
ITALY: 
TOTAL: Programmed 
ERDF 
contribution 
1994-99 
(MECU) Committ­
ments up to 
1997 (MECU) 
period 1994 -99 
5,0 
54,0 -
-Committ­
ments in 1997 
(MECU) 
1997 
5,0 
5,0 Ref./Obs. 
committment 
in 1997 
0 
1 The total only includes those MS where there are estimated figures for TEN 
â.1 
6. Ports 
Ports 
GREECE: 
HHHHHi Programmed 
ERDF 
contribution 
1994-99 
(MECU) 
period 1994 
40,0 
lll;lllll!lllllli! Committ­
ments up to 
1997 
(MECU) 
-99 
20,9 
|||||||||;|||||||;|| Committ­
ments in 1997 
(MECU) 
1997 
14,9 
llllllllllllllili Rcf./Obs. 
|;iii:i!|!|||I||l!||!|||:||||||ll 
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9. ANNEX IX: MAJOR TEN PROJECTS FINANCED BY THE REGIONAL AND 
COHESION FUND UP TO END 1997 
A. ESSEN specific projects - Cohesion Fund financing 
PROJECT 
No 3. High speed Train Soutli 
Madrid-Barcelona-Perpignan 
Madrid-Victoria-Dax 
Total project No. 3 
No 7 Greek Motorways 
Patras-Athens-Thessaloniki 
Via Egnatia 
Total project No. 7 
No 8. Multimodal link Portugal -
Spain / Europe 
•*• 
Portugese section 
Spanish section 
Total project No 8. 
No 9. 
Cork-Dublin-Belfast-Larne 
rail link 
Line upgrading 
No 13. Ireland/UK/Benelux 
N1/N7 road corridor in Ireland 
TOTAL SPECIFIC PROJECTS 1993 
Mecu Commitments 1993 - 1997 
1994 
Mecu 1995 
Mecu 1996 
Mecu 1997 
Mecu TOTAL 
93-97 
Mecu TOTAL 
commitment 
to end 
1997 
Mecu 
8.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 157.6 165.6 299.8 
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 
8.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 157.6 165.6 299.8 
45.35 13.06 0.00 124.07 59.67 242.15 242.15 
26.42 9.21 40.74 0.00 65.4 141.77 164.32** 
71.77 22.27 40.74 124.07 125.07 383.92 406.47 
23.82 28.80 0.00 0.00 128.83 181.45 565.24 
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.93 4.93 4.93 
23.82 28.80 0.00 0.00 133.76 186.38 570.17 
11.87 20.60 21.47 0.00 1.1 55.04 55.04 
8.50 40.19 30.83 30.16 44.24 153.82 236.53 
123.9 111.8 93.04 154.23 461.77 944.76 1568.02 
* Total amount of assistance from Cohesion Fund in Commission decisions approved up to end December 1997 for the period to end 1999. 
** It is expected that the Greek Government will apply for a further 100 MECU in assistance for project No. 7 in 1998 and 1999 with the bulk 
to be committed to the Via Egnatia corridor. 
•** Project No. 8 has changed in scope in 1997 in line with the agreement reached at the Dublin European Council of December 1996. The 
priority project is now the 'Portugal-Spain-rest of Europe multi-modal corridor'. In the light of the enlargement of the scope of the project, the 
amount of Cohesion Fund assistance committed in 1997 and later years is considerably larger than in the 1993-1996 period. 
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10. ANNEX X : EIB LOANS FOR TEN AND TEN-RELATED PROJECTS IN 1997 
TEN-TRANSPORT Updated : 31 December 1997 
f (ECU m) 
1. ESSEN PRIORITY PROJECTS AND RELATED PROJECTS 
HIGH SPEED TRAIN/COMBINED TRANSPORT NORTH SOUTH (DE/AT/IT) 
HIGH SPEED TRAIN PBKAL (FR/BE/DE/NL/UK) 
HIGH SPEED TRAIN SOUTH (ES/FR) 
HIGH SPEED TRAIN EAST (FR/DE/LX) 
BETUWE LINE : COMBINED TRANSPORT (NL/DE) 
HIGH SPEED TRAIN/COMBINED TRANSPORT FRANCE-ITALY (FR/IT) 
GREEK MOTORWAYS (GR) 
PORTUGAL-SPAIN MOTORWAY (PT/ES) - wider project 
RAIL LINK CORK-DUBLIN-BELFAST-[LARNE-STRANRAER] (IE/UK) 
MALPENSA AIRPORT (IT) 
FIXED RAIL/ROAD LINK BETWEEN DENMARK AND SWEDEN (DK/SE) 
NORDIC TRIANGLE (NO/SE/FI) 
IRELAND - UNITED KINGDOM - BENELUX ROAD LINK (UK/IE) 
WEST COAST MAIN LINE (UK) 
2. OTHER TRANSEUROPEAN NETWORKS PROJECTS 
2.1 Road network 
2.2 Rail network 
2.3 Inland waterway network and inland ports 
2.4 Seaports 
2.5 Airports 
2.6 Combined transport network 
2.7 Shipping information and management network 
2.8 Air traffic management network 
2.9 Positioning and navigation network 
TOTAL IN THE EU Loans 
approved 
11.157 
384 
2.332 
2.332 
2.060 
44 
295 
1.841 
1.738 
131 
16.866 
6.153 
6.211 
662 
3.611 
29 
200 
28.023 93 
1.346 
370 
171 
805 
562 
241 
59 
224 
38 
1.908 94 
1.137 
286 
143 
534 
104 
60 
11 
802 
436 
182 
32 
152 
1.939 Finance contracts signed 
95 
1.603 
350 
230 
34 
598 
44 
20 
128 
149 
50 
2.216 
833 
857 
299 
139 
5 
83 
3.819 96 
1.189 
119 
159 
66 
390 
417 
38 
2.315 
1.409 
674 
32 
190 
10 
3.504 97 
1.601 
450 
300 
104 
283 
464 
3.342 
1.191 
1.432 
35 
671 
13 
4.943 Total 
6.876 
350 
1.455 
807 
2.003 
44 
228 
801 
1.090 
99 
9.237 
4.110 
3.145 
457 
1.376 
28 
121 
16.113 
3. PROJECTS IN CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE 
3.1 Road corridors 
3.2 Rail corridors 
3.3 Ports 
3.4 Airports & ATC 2.381 
1.151 
876 
89 
265 469 
168 
247 
54 397 
153 
138 
15 
91 270 
176 
40 
54 553 
315 
238 427 
262 
75 
20 
70 2.116 
1.074 
738 
89 
215 
TOTAL | 30.4041 2.377 2.336 4.089 4.057 5.370 18.2291 
BEI I EIB TEN-ENERGY Updated : 31 December 1997 
(A) • 
(ECU m) 
1. ESSEN PRIORITY PROJECTS & RELATED PROJECTS 
1.1 Projects in the European Union 
ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTION GREECE - ITALY 
ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTION FRANCE - ITALY 
ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTION FRANCE - SPAIN 
ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTION SPAIN - PORTUGAL 
EAST-WEST ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTION DENMARK 
NATURAL GAS NETWORK GREECE 
NATURAL GAS NETWORK PORTUGAL 
GAS INTERCONNECTION PORTUGAL - SPAIN 
1.2 Projects with neighbouring countries 
GAS PIPELINE ALGERIA - MOROCCO - EUROPEAN UNION 
GAS PIPELINE RUSSIA - POLAND - EUROPEAN UNION 
2. OTHER TRANSEUROPEAN NETWORKS PROJECTS 
2.1 Transeuropean electricity network 
2.2 Transeuropean gas network 
TOTAL IN THE EU Loans 
approved 
2.548 
1.261 
100 
57 93 
207 
7 
526 7 
354 
224 
1.287 
941 
346 
3.011 
1.314 
1.697 
5.559 200 
200 
160 
160 
367 94 
315 
153 
153 
161 
162 
401 
142 
259 
715 Finance contracts signed 
95 
523 
333 
6 
102 
224 
190 
190 
387 
91 
296 
910 96 
695 
352 
50 
200 
102 
343 
343 
720 
256 
464 
1.415 97 
300 
300 
300 
554 
298 
256 
854 Total 
2.040 
846 
56 
207 
357 
224 
1.194 
852 
343 
2.222 
947 
1.275 
4.262 
3. PROJECTS WITH NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES 
3.1 Transeuropean electricity network 
3.2 Transeuropean gas network 80 
80 80 
80 80 
80 
| TOTAL | 5.639| 367 795 910 1.415 854 4.342 
BEI I EIB TEN-TELECOM Updated : 31 December 1997 
(ECU m) 
1. PROJECTS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION 
1.1 Networks & Trunk Echanges 
1.2 Mobile Telephony 
1.3 Satellites & Stations 
2.PROJECTS WITH NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES 
2.1 Networks & Trunk Echanges 
2.2 Mobile Telephony 
2.3 Satellites & Stations Loans 
approved 
8.559 
5.466 
2.522 
571 
1.562 
1.202 
360 93 
1.005 
954 
51 
110 
110 94 
2.100 
2.006 
72 
22 
300 
300 Finance contracts signed 
95 96 97 
839 1.602 1.880 
786 881 486 
53 421 1.394 
300 
130 115 357 
130 100 312 
15 45 Total 
7.426 
5.113 
1.991 
322 
1.012 
952 
60 
| 10.1211 1.115 2.400 969 1.717 2.237 || 8.43§| TOTAL 
11. ANNEX XI: EIF GUARANTEES FOR TEN AND TEN-RELATED PROJECTS IN 1997 
TRANSPORT 
Date Project Country Amount* % total 
17/12/97 Rion-Antirion Bridge Greece 55 16 
Sub-total 55 16 
TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
Date 
31/07/97 
29/08/97 
02/10/97 
15/10/97 
23/10/97 
16/12/97 Project 
MATAV 
Omnitel (senior) 
Digifone 
Omnitel (subordinated) 
Bouygues Telecom 
Mobistar Country 
non-EU 
Italy 
Ireland 
Italy 
France 
Belgium 
Sub-total Amount* 
26.03 
51.49 
25.97 
51.49 
113.43 
8.09 
276.50 % total 
82 
ENERGY 
Date 
05/06/97 Project 
Lusitaniagas Country 
Portugal 
Sub-total Amount* 
3.71 
3.71 % total 
1 
1 
8 projects All TEN 335.22 
MECU 
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