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Stéphane Ouaki
European Commission, DG Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE)
European Railway Agency Conference Lille, 8 May 2014
Financing rail with the
Connecting Europe Facility
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Transport
Connecting Europe Facility One instrument – three sectors
Connecting Europe Facility
Transport Guidelines
Energy Guidelines
Telecom Guidelines
Financing framework 2014-2020
Sectoral policy frameworks
(setting priorities for 2030, 2050)
Regulation (EU) 1316/2013, adopted in December 2013 together with the Regulation 1315/2013 on the TEN-T Guidelines
Transport
CEF: budget for transport
• €26.2 billion for TEN-T (-40% vs EC)
•€14.9bn available to all Member States
•€11.3bn to be transferred from the Cohesion Fund
• To be allocated exclusively to projects in Cohesion Fund eligible Member States
• Respect of National allocations under the Cohesion Fund until end 2016
• Specific Programme support actions for MS experiencing difficulties in proposing projects
•To be spent via:
Grants
Innovative financial instruments (€2 billion estimated market uptake)
Transport
• 80 – 85 % of available budget for pre-identified projects listed in Annex 1 • 4 horizontal priorities
(including ERTMS) • 9 core network
corridors • and other important
cross-border and bottleneck sections
• delegated act foreseen to amend list
• 15 – 20 % for other
projects of the core and comprehensive networks and for financial instruments
CEF: eligibility
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TEN-T Corridors
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Baltic-Adriatic
North Sea - Baltic
Mediterranean
Orient/East Med
Scandinavian-Mediterranean
Rhine-Alpine
Atlantic
North Sea - Mediterranean
Rhine-Danube
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up to 20% for investments in general up to 30% for bottlenecks (only for rail and inland waterway) up to 40% for cross-border projects (only for rail and inland waterway) up to 50% for studies for ERTMS: up to 50% for land-based and for on-board components up to 20% for new technologies and innovation up to 85% for the €10bn transferred from the Cohesion Fund
CEF: co-financing rates
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CEF: ERTMS deployment
• CEF support to ERTMS to be focused on Core Network and Corridors
• Cohesion Fund and ERDF to support deployment on comprehensive network
• For on-board equipment, focus on
• Innovative financial instruments
• Deployment of version 3.0 and upgrade towards 3.0.
• Corridors, in parallel with ground deployment
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Latest steps in CEF implementation • January 7, 2014 Commission Communication setting out
the top funding priorities for the CEF
• March 26, 2014 AWP and MWP adopted setting out the
implementation framework and available funding for the
priorities
• Call texts and guide for applicants expected to be
published in June 2014
• 1st call for proposals open – September 1, 2014 –
February 28, 2015
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Main focus of EU funding – the Communication
• On projects with the highest EU added value on the Core
Network Corridors (as pre-identified in CEF Regulation, Annex I)
• Major missing cross-border sections
• Major bottlenecks
• Other cross-border sections
• Strong incentives for rail interoperability
• Encouragement of corridor-wide action for new concepts such as
intermodality, technological innovation (incl. telematic applications)
• Substantial financial resources for first MAP
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Main features of the 2014 Work programmes and calls
• 1 MAP for the €10bn transferred from Cohesion Fund, only for Cohesion MS
• 1 MAP for the 28 EU MS
ERTMS priority to be included in the 2 MAPs
• 1 AP for the 28 EU MS
• The size of the calls will be adjusted on the basis of MS project pipelines
Will be done in cooperation with MS authorities and DG REGIO, especially for Cohesion MS
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Work Programmes
• Objective 1 of MWP: Concentration on Core Network Corridors,
Core Network and Horizontal priorities (pre-identified projects, rail
interoperability, ERTMS)
Total financial envelope: EUR 9.7 billion (6 bn /3.7 bn Cohesion)
• Objective 2 of MWP: Sustainable and efficient transport &
optimising integration and interconnection of transport
Total financial envelope: EUR 1.3 billion (1 bn/0.3 bn Cohesion)
• In addition EUR 930 million under AWP, most of which foreseen for
removing bottlenecks and bridging missing links (for other than
pre-identified projects of CEF Annex I)
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CEF: Programme Support Actions for rail
In the Multiannual Work Programme:
• Cohesion Member States
• Capacity building for Railway Infrastructure Managers
(average grant 780,000 EUR per MS for 2014-2020 period)
• Strengthening the institutional capacity and the efficiency of
the Cohesion MS authorities to prepare projects
• ERTMS
• Services for technical support for ERTMS deployment
along Corridors
• Study to develop use of innovative financing to support
ERTMS deployment along the Corridors
• Interoperability
• Inventory of assets for persons with reduced mobility/
disabilities
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CEF: Financial instruments
2 types: • Equity (Marguerite)
• Risk-sharing instruments to provide loans and/or guarantees (such as LGTT or Project Bonds)
• Combination of innovative financial instruments (e.g. Project bonds) and EU direct support (i.e. grants) to optimise the impact of financing
• Possibility to top up the CEF financial instruments: MS (directly or through Structural Funds), other EU funds and/or investors
• Possibility to use the Risk Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF) and its successor under Horizon 2020. Dedicated instrument to finance projects with high technological or innovation risk.
• Possibility of specific model for ERTMS: toll-bridge financing model
• Specific Technical support from the EIB or external consultants can be financed through CEF support actions.
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Financial instruments under the CEF – How?
• Management of FIs under the CEF • Implementation by financial partners (EIB) in accordance with Financial
Regulation
• Possible combination of innovative financial instruments and grants to optimise the impact of financing
• Possibility for MS (directly or through Structural Funds), other EU funds and/or investors to top up the CEF financial instruments
• Role of EU and EIB • EU determines general eligibility criteria (TEN-T Guidelines + CEF article 7)
• EU helps develop project pipeline where appropriate
• EIB selects specific projects using standard eligibility criteria and credit risk policies, select type of support
• EU and EIB share risk, but EU risk capped at budgetary contribution, no contingent liabilities.
• Building institutional capacity for PPPs in MS
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Complementarity (and not duplication) between CEF and ESIF
• Strategic framework for Cohesion Policy support to investments in transport
• Focus on TEN-T
• Consistency with the comprehensive national transport strategy
• CEF: 11.3bn EUR transferred from the Cohesion Fund
Co-funding rates applicable for the Cohesion Fund
• - A complementary list of projects for the network effect
• - Commission urges Member States to ensure higher financing for railway projects (vis-à-vis road) in the Operational Programmes
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Complementarity CEF - ESIF
CEF will concentrate on projects with a high EU added value – rail – on core network and Corridors (as pre-identified in the Annex of the CEF Regulation)
CF/ERDF will concentrate on high EU added-value projects to remove bottlenecks in transport networks by supporting TEN-T infrastructure, for both the core and comprehensive networks
CF/ERDF is eligible for other modes of transport: urban
CF/ERDF can finance projects non-eligible under the CEF: rolling stock, stations
