The European associations of the transport once ask that the aids of Been about to the projects TRY, authorized persons, are not questioned



The European associations of the marine and fluvial ports of the railway societies and the railway infrastructure managers, the highway concessionaires and the haulers have sent a document combined to the EU commission on the topic of the aids of Been about to the realization of the projects of transeuropee infrastructures of transport TRY asking the simplification for the procedures carried out from the same Commission in order to authorize or less the financings necessary in order to put into effect the projects. The objective is to guarantee that the compatibility of all the elements of the financing of a project with the European legislation can be estimated in the course of the general procedure of request TRIES.

The Association Européenne DES Concessionnaires d' Autoroutes ET of ouvrages to Péage (ASECAP), the International Road Transport Union (IRU), the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO), the European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP), the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) and the European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM) has explained that a positive decision about the financing of a project TRIES would have to do so as that I use it of aids of State does not come place in argument successively.

In the document sent to the EU commission, ASECAP, IRU, ESPO, EFIP, CER and EIM have remembered that "the projects TRY generally benefit of financings EU with the maximum rate co-financing pairs to about 20-30%. The remaining quota the financing of the project must be covered with other means. These - they have found - often are constituted by public resources. The appraisal of the communitarian financings and the national financings is got ahead in various ways. While the EU commission considers the totally compatible financings EU with the Treaty - they have observed ASECAP, IRU, ESPO, EFIP, CER and EIM - the national financing can be considered an aid of State that must be notified separately to the Commission and that it can be potentially incompatible with the Treaty. This approach - they have denounced the six associations - creates a remarkable legal uncertainty for the investor, so as the double administrative burden of request TEN- T and the notification of the aid of State, that it can determine meaningful delays of a project".

ASECAP, IRU, ESPO, EFIP, CER and EIM have asked therefore a better rationalization for the internal procedures the EU commission "in way such - they have explained - to guarantee that the compatibility with straight the EU of all the elements of the financing of a project can be estimated during the general procedure of request TRIES. A positive decision about the financing of a project TRIES - they have concluded the six associations - would have to involve the legal certainty that the eventual one I use of the aids of Been about to the same project is not questioned with too much facility in a subsequent phase".