On Monday 14 June, the Council of the EU adopted the programme for the Connecting Europe Facility 2.0 (see EUROPE 12700/11). This second part of the program will be provided with EUR 33.71 billion for the 2021-2027 period and will be used to finance the development of sustainable and efficient infrastructures in the fields of transport, digital and energy.
“I am very happy that we have today been able to confirm the adoption by the Council of the Connecting Europe Facility regulation, following the final trilogue with the Parliament which we had on 11 March and building also on all the hard work done by previous Council presidencies”, said the Portuguese Minister for Infrastructure, Pedro Nuno Santos.
In detail, some EUR 25.81 billion will be spent on transport - including EUR 11.29 billion for cohesion countries - and EUR 5.84 billion on energy. The digital sector will be able to count on EUR 2.07 billion in funding under this second part of the programme.
The act will now have to be adopted by Parliament in second reading and will apply retroactively from 1 January 2021.
See the document on the EU Council’s position on the subject: https://bit.ly/3gp8gbs (Original version in French by Thomas Mangin)