18/06/2020 (Agence Europe) – The Ambassadors of the Member States to the EU (Coreper) formally approved the provisional agreement, announced and detailed in our columns on 8 June (see EUROPE 12502/1), on the European Commission's legislative proposal to facilitate the realisation of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). The co-legislators therefore agreed that the text would take the form of a directive, giving member states “the necessary flexibility to take advantage of their existing permit-granting procedures”, the EU Council said in a statement. Member States will have two years from the entry into force of the Directive to transpose its provisions into national law. The text still has to be submitted to the formal vote of the European Parliament and the EU Council, foreseen after the adoption of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF 2.0). To view the Interim Agreement: https://bit.ly/37DLqqx (AC)