Future TEN-T Policy Stéphane OUAKI DG MOVE Regions for Economic Change Fostering smart and sustainable growth in cities and regions – 23 June 2011.

Future TEN-T Policy

Stéphane OUAKIDG MOVE

Regions for Economic Change Fostering smart and sustainable growth in cities and regions –

23 June 2011

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Since the 14 Essen projects, the TEN-T network has expended

1996/2001… 2004…

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Today !

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The TEN-T network today (facts and figures) – 1/2

.Comprehensive network and 30 Priority Projects

. TEN-T network – EU27 (existing and planned)

» 96,000 km of roads, » 106,000 km of rail tracks of which 32,000 km high

speed, » 13,800 km of inland waterways,» 411 airports, » 404 international sea ports, » 300 inland ports and» traffic management systems.

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.Cost of the 30 Priority Projects: €250 billion up to 2020

. TEN-T budget» €8 billion for 2007-2013» Concentration on cross border sections and bottlenecks of

Priority Projects

.Need to look at other sources:» Regional Funds

• Cohesion Fund• ERDF

» European Investment Bank» National funding remains crucial» PPP

The TEN-T network today (facts and figures) – 2/2

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Has the TEN-T policy been successful? (1/2) Well, if we stick to

the dark side…

. The TEN-T projects today constitutes no continuous trans-European network but consists of a scattered co-existence of national sections with a few cross-border success-stories,

.Priorities set in the TEN-T policy do not necessarily correspond to national strategies and are subsequently particularly weakened in the current debt crisis context…

. The inefficiency of today’s TEN-T non-network appears all too clearly whenever European transport supply is under stress, in time of North-South seasonal migrations, or in case of major strikes, not to mention volcanic ash clouds…

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Has the TEN-T policy been successful? (2/2) Nevertheless, on the clearer side…

. 7 of the 30 Priority Projects have been completed and many sections of the other Priority sections are in use.

.Some of these are highly successful: North-West European High Speed network (“PBKAL”), Øresund fixed link, West Coast Main Line, Paris-Strasburg-South of Germany (“POS”), Cologne – Frankfurt, Milano-Bologna – Florence -Naples, Sevilla-Madrid-Barcelona, soon Mulhouse – Dijon on the Rhine-Rhone high speed line...

.… thereby offering a rail alternative to air and road for leisure and business trips

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Still, what should be our priorities for the next period (2014-2020?)

.Make the TEN-T project a network… » Focus on its indispensable cross-border sections…

» Set a clear priority on transport modes that need to catch up against road, i.e. rail and inland waterways at first rank…

» Improve the performance of entry points and intermodal nodes (ports, airports, logistic platforms…)

» Commit to interoperability through harmonised traffic management systems, operational parameters and operational rules

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Building on a fruitful consultation process that started in February 2009, what do we have in mind?

. Two layer approach (core and comprehensive networks), and enforced obligations: the core network shall set mandatory objectives (deadlines, operational parameters such as train lengths, weight etc.) rather than solely co-funding privileges,

.As for EU funding, the “use-it-or-loose-it” principle shall be enforced through regular reviews,

.Commitments for timely implementation shall be settled in by individual corridor decisions,

.And Coordinators appointed for to monitor and their implementation.

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Strengthen funding coherence among programs involved in transports and enforce the performance principle

.Coherence: project of an Infrastructure fund, that would reconcile objectives and bring together fields that interact, such as Energy, Telecommunications and Transport. .Performance: objectives are ambitious and co-funding means will be tight. Hence, regular reviews will ensure that EU funds are efficiently spent, or reallocated… . The mid-term review carried out in 2010 enabled to re-use 311 million € that will be spent through new calls, for instance this year on ERTMS, RIS and Motorways of the Sea.

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Corridors: let’s (try to) keep it simple…

. The corridor concept has grown to a somehow unclear patchwork of Priority Projects, Rail Freight Corridors, ERTMS corridors, Green corridors, De Palacio corridors, to which RNE and pan-European corridors should be added…

. Simplification is urgently needed in order to streamline efforts without loosing the results already achieved or putting on balance the commitments taken

. The Corridor concept will be reinforced, and explicitely addressed, through individual decisions that will associate objectives for improving the quality of infrastructure, of consumer-oriented services to financial commitments both from the side of the EU and that of the Member States.

. In implementing such decisions, the Coordinator will have an important role to play.

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Next steps?

TEN-T Days

2009 (10.09)

TEN-T Days

2010 (6.10)

Public Consultation 1

Expert groups

EC Working Staff

Document 1 (5.10)

White Paper (3.11)

Green Paper (2.09)

Public Consultation 2

EC Working Staff

Document 2 (1.11)

EC Proposal for TEN-T

Guidelines

(9.11)

Multi-financial Framework

(29 June 2011)

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Thank you for your attention