CELEX: 51986PC0674
Language: en
Date: 1986-11-18
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ON THE GRANTING OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

N o C 323/4                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   16.12. 86
               Proposal for a Council Regulation on the granting of financial support to transport
                                                    infrastructure projects
                                                      COM(86) 674 final
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 25 November 1986)
                                                        (86/C 323/04)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               Improvement to the Toulouse-Barcelona road in the
                                                                       region of Pensaguel-Le Vernet (France),
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community and in particular articles 75 and
 84 thereof,                                                           Increasing capacity and safety on the rail line
                                                                       Bayonne-Hendaye (France).
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                         Works in major corridors:
liament,
                                                                       Between the Netherlands and Belgium — works to
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                       complete the Bergen-op-Zoom-Antwerpen motorway
Social Committee,                                                      (Netherlands and Belgium),
Whereas the Council in its meeting of 11 November
 1986 has reached conclusions concerning the objectives,               On the approaches to the Channel ports and the
criteria and financial mechanism of a medium-term                      planned Channel tunnel — completion of the M20
programme;                                                             motorway between Ashford and Maidstone (United
                                                                       Kingdom),
Whereas the first phase of such a programme should be
undertaken in order to use the whole of the appro-
                                                                       On the transit route through Seeland to/from
priations included this purpose in the 1985 budget;
                                                                       Sweden electrification and improvements to the rail
                                                                       line Rinsted-Rungsted (Denmark).
Whereas the ceilings for the Community financial
support for each project of this Regulation should be
fixed by the Commission;
                                                                   4.     Works to better integrate areas situated geographically
                                                                   on the periphery of the Community:
Whereas the methods and procedures of carrying out
this Regulation should be defined,
                                                                   — On the main road between the Peloponese and the
                                                                      Yugoslavian frontier:
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                      — Inofita-Schimatari (Greece),
                          Article 1                                   — Ritsona-Thivai (Greece),
                                                                      — Solomos-Nemea (Greece);
1.    In the limits of the budget credits remaining from
the budget of 1985 and under the conditions set out in
Articles 2, 3 and 4 the Community shall provide financial          — On       the principal       Athens-Thessaloniki-Idomeni
support for transport infrastructure projects by con-                  (frontier) rail line:
tributing to the cost of the following projects:
                                                                      — Sfingas-Aliartos (Greece),
2.     Transit routes:                                                — Tithoria-Domokos-Larissa (Greece),
                                                                      — Thessaloniki-Idomeni (Greece);
— Brenner-Bolzano, improvement of the railway line
    (Italy),
                                                                   — On the main north-south road in Ireland:
— Construction of the tunnel of Chavants on the road                  — The Dunleer bypass (Ireland).
    access to the Mont Blanc (France),
— Increasing capacity on the Aachen-Koln motorway in               — On principal transit axis in the Iberian peninsula:
    the region of Koln (Federal Republic of Germany),
                                                                      — Irun-Portugal road N620 (E82) — bypass of
— Construction of a bypass at Braintree on the A120                        Tordesillas (Spain),
    road towards the East Coast ports (United                         — Porto-Spanish frontier road IP4 (E801)-Paredes-
    Kingdom),                                                              Penafiel (Portugal).
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5.    Other projects:                                              2.    Without prejudice to checks carried out by the
                                                                   Member States in accordance with national laws, regu-
— Works in association with the construction of a new              lations or administrative provisions, and without
    loading ramp for vehicles in the port of Ostend                prejudice to the provisions of Article 206 bis of the
    (Belgium),                                                     Treaty, as well as all checks organized pursuant to
                                                                   Article 209 (c) of the Treaty, on-the-spot checks or
— Preparatory studies and works on the project for the             enquiries in respect of projects receiving financial
    improvement of the Brenner Route between the                   support shall be carried out by the competent authorities
    Federal Republic of Germany and Italy through                  of the Member State concerned and by representatives of
    Austria (Italy).                                               the Commission, or other persons authorized to this
                                                                   effect by the latter. The Commission shall determine
                                                                   deadlines for the performance of checks and as a pre-
                          Article 2                                liminary inform the Member State in order to receive all
1.    The Community's financial contribution under the             necessary assistance.
present Regulation may not exceed 25 % of the total
cost of the project as a whole or that part of the project         3.    The purpose of these on-the-spot checks or
that is assisted.                                                  enquiries relating to operations receiving financial
                                                                   support is to ascertain:
2.    In no case should the contributions from all                 (a) the conformity of       administrative  practices  with
Community budget sources exceed 70 % of the total cost                  Community rules;
of the project or that part of the project that is assisted.
                                                                    (b) the existence of supporting documents and the fact
3.    An advance payment of no more than 40 % of the                    that they correspond;
Community contribution may be provided to accelerate
the execution of projects.                                         (c) the conditions under which operations are executed
                                                                        and checked;
4.    The amount of the Community financial con-                    (d) the conformity of the projects carried out with the
tributions to the projects referred to in Article 1 shall be            conditions subject to which financial support was
decided by the Commission.                                              granted.
                          Article 3                                 4.    The Commission may suspend payment of the
                                                                   financial contribution in respect of an operation if a
 1.   Where a project which has received financial                 check reveals irregularities or a substantial change in the
support has not been carried out as planned, or where               nature or conditions of the project for which the
the conditions imposed by the provisions governing the              Commission's approval has not been sought.
measure are not fulfilled, the financial support may be
reduced or cancelled if the Commission so decides.
                                                                                             Article 4
Any sum paid incorrectly shall be repaid to the                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
Community by the beneficiary within 12 months of the               publication in the Official Journal of the European
date of notification of such decision.                              Communities.