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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
C O M(84) 172 fin a l 
B russels, 20 March 1984
COMMUNICATION FROM IHE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL
on the proposai for a Council R egulation on fin an cial support 
for a multiannual tran sp o rt in fra stru c tu re  programme
C O M (84) 172 fin a l

ÇQMMyNIÇAIION_FROM_IHE_ÇOMMISSION_IO_THE_ÇOyNÇIL
AIn August 1983 the Commission presented a proposai for a  
Council Regulation on financial support for a multiannual transport  
infrastructure programme.
On 28 September 1983 the Economic and Social Committee gave a  
2favourable opinion on this proposal.
On 8 November 1983 the European Parliament gave its opinion.3
Clearly, the recent blocking of certain frontier-crossing points  
within the Community has made it even more imperative to improve  
infrastructures which directly or indirectly affect the movement of  
goods across the Community's internal frontiers.
Some of the projects which the Commission proposes to finance in its
< 1August 1983 proposal for a Regulation are specifically related to  
this problem, and discussions in Council departments have shown that  
there are other projects which would also help solve this problem which  
could be added to the list.
The Commission therefore suggests that in order to attack this  
problem - which is now even more urgent - the Council, at its meeting  
on 22 March 1984, should decide in principle to grant the appropriations  
entered in the 1983 Budget and some of the appropriations entered in  
the 1984 Budget (the Commission would suggest 15 million ECU) under  
heading 781 to the following projects:
n0J C 36, 10.2.1984, p. 3.  
20J C 341, 19.12.1983, p. 4.  
3Do c. 1-979/83, 8.11.1983.

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- improving the railway line between Chiasso and Milan
- modernizing the key railway junction at Mulhouse North
- building the section of the Luxembourg-Trier motorway between  
Potaschbierg and the Federal German frontier
- building the motorway section between Le Fayet and Les Houches.
The Commission also proposes that the Council take a decision in principle  
to allocate 5 million of the 15 million ECU mentioned above to improving  
infrastructure in order to facilitate frontier crossings on the following  
routes :
Benelux - Federal Republic of Germany - Austria - Italy - Greece  
Benelux - Federal Republic of Germany - Switzerland - Italy  
Benelux - France/Switzerland - Italy.
A separate annex to this communication explains how the Commission  
suggests these amounts should be distributed between the various projects.
The appropriations not used to implement the proposed decision will provide 
financial resources for further decisions to be taken to implement the  
Regulation proposed by the Commission in August 1983.

ANNEX
Allocation of appropriations  
for infrastructure support -  
priority tranche
1. Improving the railway between  
Chiasso and Milan
2. Modernizing the Mulhouse junction
3. Luxembourg-Trier motorway
4. Motorway section between Le Fayet  
and Les Houches
5. Improving infrastructure to ease  
traffic flow at frontier crossingsCost in Percentage Amount
m ECU contribution in m ECU
57 15 8.5
31 15 4.6
54 15 8.1
26 15 3.8
5.0
30.0