Today, the Council of the European Union approved the the new Regulation on EU Guidelines for the development of the TEN-T trans-European transport network, which modifies the Regulation 2021/1153 and Regulation 913/2010 and repeals the Regulation 1315/2013. In the coming weeks, the legislative act will be signed by the Presidents of the Council and Parliament before being published in the "Official Journal" and enter into force on the twentieth day thereafter to publication.

The new law provides for the completion of the network in three phases: until 2030 for the core network, until 2040 for the the extended core network and up to 2050 for the (Comprehensive Network). The new interim deadline of the 2040 was introduced to anticipate the completion of large-scale, mainly cross-border projects, such as missing rail links, before the 2050 deadline.

To ensure that infrastructure planning meet real operational needs and, by integrating railways, roads and and waterways, the new regulation unites the corridors of the network with rail corridors for freight transport in the so-called "European Transport Corridors".

In addition, in response to the impact of the war of aggression against Ukraine and to ensure a better connectivity with the main neighbouring countries, the new Regulation extends four European transport network corridors TEN-T to Ukraine and Moldova, while reducing the cross-border connections with Russia. and Belarus.

Expressing satisfaction with the adoption of the regulation the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, underlined that, from the Italian perspective, achieved fundamental results for the country's strategic role in start with the renewed configuration of the national grid. Between The main relevant changes, are the inclusion of of the port of Civitavecchia as the port of Rome in the central network (expected from 2013) and the new route of the bridge over the Strait of Messina. The result for Italy was also particularly positive on the railway front. Two freight lines were then defined along the coastal ridges and a passenger line in the axis central and realigned the access roads to the Brenner Pass and to the Turin-Lyon line, as well as the reconfiguration of the Venice-Trieste as an adaptation of the existing one, all of which part of the core network and corridor routes press corps. Many sections have been elevated to network rank "extended" power plant, becoming part of the corridor; in the central network and in the corresponding corridor is entrance to the "Novara-Seregno" railway section, which bypass of the Milan junction and, to the south, the railway section high-speed "Battipaglia-Praia".

MIT also pointed out that it was obtained the inclusion in the core network of numerous railway sections: for example, the closure of the railway ring in southern Sicily connecting the nodes of Caltanissetta, Agrigento, Licata, Gela, Pozzallo and Syracuse, the "Aosta-Chivasso" sections, "Brindisi-Taranto" and the three cross-border sections "Fossano-Cuneo-French-Ventimiglia border", "Austrian Fortress-Border (Puster Valley Line)" and "Gorizia-Slovenian border"; It was also including the missing part of the road and rail section of the Ionian line in the comprehensive network in Calabria and the last mile road to the urban junction of Campobasso. The knots have also been expanded with the addition of a further seven new ports to the network comprehensive: Capri, Ischia, Ponza, Porto Empedocle, Porto Santo Stefano and Procida and Villa San Giovanni side by side in Reggio Calabria. Among the freight terminals, there are four in the core network: Fernetti, Santo Stefano di Magra, Agognate flanked by Novara and Segrate in Milan and 12 in the comprehensive network (Busto Arsizio-Sacconago together with Gallarate, Bergamo Cortenuova, Cremona PLB and Piadena, Faenza, Foggia Incoronata, Forlì Cesena Villa Selva, Marzaglia, Ortona, Castelguelfo together with Parma already Pordenone and Portogruaro).

The Italian comprehensive network also includes three new airports (Elba Islands, Perugia and Rimini to replace Forlì) and the exclusion of Brescia. It has been obtained, Finally, the increase in the network of urban nodes has risen to 50 units compared to the nine nodes currently present.

MIT recalled that the infrastructures that belong to the TEN-T network, as well as enjoying wide visibility and being recognised as having high European added value, are eligible for European funding as they are obliged to comply with ambitious and challenging infrastructure, both from a technical point of view and financial. The text adopted by the Council will be adopted effective on the twentieth day following its publication in the Official Journal Official of the European Union.