New bottoms in order to finance the infrastructure projects of transport in the European Union



The EU commission has introduced a new system in order to finance infrastructure projects of transport in the European Union with the scope to maximize the private investments. The initiative, with the today's invitation to introduce proposed, previews to accumulate a equipment of deep for a total pairs to a billion of euro being arranged the financings of the program Mechanism in order to connect Europe (CEF) and financings distributed from financials institution publics and the private sector with, for the first time, deep coming from the European Bottom for strategic investments (FEIS).

For the first time the invitation to introduce proposed of the Mechanism in order to connect Europe will demand therefore the combination of subsidies and financings of the European Bottom for strategic investments (FEIS), of the European Investment Bank, of national banks of promotion or investor of the private sector. In order to receive the support of program CEF, the candidates they will have to try that their projects are financially suitable to obtain deep complementary from financials institution private publics or.

The selected projects will have to contribute to the sustainable, innovative and homogenous increase along the transeuropea net of the transports. The accent will be placed in particular on the intended projects to eliminate the throttlings, to support the transboundary connections and to accelerate the digitalisation of the transports, above all in fields with elevated potential and gaps of market as for example in the countries beneficiaries of the Bottom of cohesion; the accent will be placed also on the sustainable and efficient systems of transport and on the strengthening of the intermodalità and the interoperability of the transport net, also thanks to new technologies and systems of management of the traffic, as the European system of management of the railway traffic, the intelligent systems of street transport or program SESAR (program of search for the management of the air traffic in the within of the European only sky).
The support will be granted on competitive base, as a result of a process of appraisal and selection. In the invitation two terms for the presentation of the proposals will be previewed, on July 14, 2017 and on November 30, 2017.

"This new combination of deep - it has emphasized the Commission - will contribute to reach the twofold objective to throw again the investments in order to finance potenziamenti of the infrastructure of transport in innovative and sustainable way, facilitating meanwhile the creation of the places of work necessary in order to realize such infrastructure. The invitation to introduce proposed contributes to the performance of the strategy of the Commission for mobility to lowlands emissions in the picture of the Union of the energy and supports the investments in the "sustainable transport" in sight of the next initiatives for street mobility that will be under way this year".

"Mobility of the future - the vice president of the EU commission has explained, Maros Sefcovic, in charge of the energy - must be clean, interconnected and competitive, and demands new financing modality. The today's invitation to introduce proposed is an important first step in this direction and will constitute the base of our job of this year for the performance of the strategy for mobility to lowlands emissions for Europe".

Jyrki Katainen, vice president of the Commission and responsible commissioner for the Occupation, the increase, the investments and the competitiveness, have remembered that "the European Bottom for the strategic investments is conceived as a flexible instrument, that can be used in combination with other sources of financing of the EU to the aim to maximize of the impact and to contribute to the attainment of wide the strategic objectives more of the Commission. I am pleased to state that, with the today's initiative, the FEIS will integrate the Mechanism in order to connect Europe in order to contribute to support the investments and the places of work necessary in order to construct intelligent and sustainable nets of transport".

Violeta Bulc, European commissioner to the Transports, evidenced that introduced today is "an innovative solution in a position to using at best our resources and taking advantage of the potential one not used of the private investments, with particular attention to the countries beneficiaries of the Bottom of cohesion. The today's action - it has specified - represents a progress also in terms of solidarity".