Brussels, 21/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission announced on Monday 21 February that €170 million will be allocated to important trans-European transport network (TEN-T) infrastructure projects. The grants stem from the 2010 TEN-T annual and multi-annual calls published on 19 May 2010 (see EUROPE 10143). The projects selected relate to: - the Motorways of the Sea - eight projects selected, €84.9 million in funding; - River Information Services - five projects selected, including the deployment of inland AIS transponders in Flanders and the Netherlands, €7.1million in funding; - Air traffic management systems and functional airspace blocks (ATM/FABs) - four projects selected, €20.5 million in funding, which was allocated in a separate call published on 16 February. The FABs selected under this call for proposals are the UK-Ireland FAB, the FAB Central Europe (Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic), the FABEC and the North European FAB (Sweden, Denmark, Latvia and Estonia). Under the annual programme, the Commission selected initiatives which chime with future transport priorities, such as electric vehicles. All the projects selected will be managed by the TEN-T Executive Agency, under the auspices of the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport of the European Commission. The full list of projects can be found on the agency site: http: //ec.europa.eu/tentea (A.By./transl.rt)