WRITTEN QUESTION E-1824/03 by Monica Frassoni (Verts/ALE) to the Commission. Motorway infrastructure in Lombardy and Trans-European Corridor No 5.
Date: 2003-06-02
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU aid, Lombardy, combined transport, motorway, transport infrastructure, transport network

C 58 E/102

Official Journal of the European Union

EN

6.3.2004

(2004/C 58 E/117)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1824/03

by Monica Frassoni (Verts/ALE) to the Commission

(2 June 2003)

Subject: Motorway infrastructure in Lombardy and Trans-European Corridor No 5

Pursuant to the Lombardy Region’s regional regulation no. 4 of 8 July 2002, the licensing procedure in
respect of the Cremona-Mantua regional motorway is currently under way.

In the Lombardy Regional Government’s proceedings no. 7/9865 of 19 July 2002 it is stated that ‘one of
the priority infrastructure objectives under the EU programme is the completion of Corridor No 5 (also
known as the 45th-parallel or Barcelona-Kiev corridor), the Italian section of which comprises a crossing
of the Po basin probably involving a transit route passing to the south of the Milan junction’.

Other items of infrastructure planned for Lombardy are also justified by the sponsoring authorities on the
grounds that they constitute operational segments of the above corridor. This is the case, for example, with
the Brescia-Bergamo-Milan regional motorway.

In view of the above, would the Commission answer the following questions:

1.

2.

3.

Is Trans-European Corridor No 5 due to pass through Lombardy?

Is the corridor to be a road one or a rail one?

Is Community funding to be made available for the completion of the corridor?

Answer given by Mrs de Palacio on behalf of the Commission

(14 July 2003)

Corridor V is a multi-modal transport link running from the north of Italy (Venezia and Trieste) to Ukraine
(Lviv). The Corridor was decided by the Ministers of Transport at the second Pan-European Transport
Conference in Crete in 1994. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on 16 December 1996. The
main line of Corridor V links Venezia (Italy) and Trieste (Italy) via Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Budapest
(Hungary) with Lviv (Ukraine). In addition to this line there are three branches to ports on the Adriatic Sea,
and one branch to connect Corridor V with Corridor IV in Bratislava.

Concerning the precise questions put by the Honourable Member, the Commission can give the following
informations:

1. As defined by the Memorandum of Understanding, Corridor V does not pass through Lombardy.

2. Corridor V is a road and rail corridor.

3.

For different parts of Corridor V, different Community instruments can be used. For those parts which
run through Member States, the TEN-T budget can be used. The TEN-T budget is for co-financing of
the TEN-T network in Member States. On those parts which run through Accession Countries, the
Instrument for Structural policies for Pre-Accession (ISPA)
ISPA co-finances
transport and environment infrastructure.

funds can be used.

It might be of interest in this context to the Honourable Member, that priority project No 6 (‘High-Speed
train/combined transport: France-Italy’) runs through the region of Lombardy. This project has been
decided by the Head of States of the Union in 1994 as a priority and is part of the Essen list (Annex III of
Decision No 1692/96/EC of the Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 on Community guidelines
for the Development of the Trans-European Transport Network (1)).

(1) OJ L 228, 9.9.1996.