Green light of the eurodeputati ones to the budget of Connecting Europe Facility



Yesterday the European Parliament, with 583 favorable ballots, 91 contrarys and 17 abstentions, has approved of an agreement with the Member States on Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), the new mechanism in order to finance the infrastructural plans of the transeuropea net of transport TRIES that it will have a total budget of approximately 29,3 billion euros for the period 2014-2020, of which 23,2 billion euros they will be used for the field of the transports to the aim to improve the transboundary connections and to eliminate the throttlings, 5,12 billion euros for the energy, in order to modernize and to expand energetic infrastructures and to increase to safety of supplyings and a billion of euro for telecommunications, in order to stimulate the development of nets to broadband and the digital services.

In a separate voting the eurodeputati ones, with 546 favorable ballots, 104 contrarys and 41 abstainers, have approved of the lines guide that define the principles and the common priorities for the completion of the net TRY with the objective to connect the great cities and the ports and to constitute a efficient transeuropea net of transport.

the general secretary of the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) has received with satisfaction the approval of the legislative text from the Parliament EU: "the new guidelines TRY, with the nine intermodal corridors previewed(of 17 October 2013, ndr) - Patrick Verhoeven has commented - recognize the fundamental role who the ports of the EU carry out in the logistic chain are European that total, but also as gateway for the only market. The inclusion of all the main European ports in the so-called nets "Core" and "comprehensive", distributed along the coast of the continent, to our warning will guarantee the effectiveness of the European net of intermodal transport in the years to come. As main customers of the ports of the EU - he has concluded the general secretary of the association of the European shipowners - we hope that the destined budget to harbour infrastructures and their connections with the outback will be sufficient to allow the passage to a true European net of intermodal transport".

Satisfaction for the approval of CEF is expressed also by the European association of the European ports: "this ballot - Isabelle Ryckbost has declared, general secretary of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) - is an important step towards the creation of a real net of transport. We have fought hardly in order to defend this budget and for having our ports very represented in the net and the corridors of the net. Now we attend that a consistent part of such funds is used in order to improve harbour infrastructures of Europe and in order to at best integrate these fundamental nodes in the European net of transport. There is a plan, is a budget - it has found Isabelle Ryckbost - we expect that beginnings now the implementation. The main corridors of the net will be powerful instruments. I hope that you carry will be able to say theirs in the implementation and the operation of these structures of corridor. Moreover, like ESPO, we must also be focused on the priority of the Freeways of the Sea: if very used - it has emphasized - can be an instrument important in order to grow marine transport intra-EU and in order to strengthen the cooperation between the European ports".