On Monday 14 June, the Council of the European Union adopted the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) Directive, which aims to simplify authorisation procedures for cross-border projects (see EUROPE 12639/14).
“The Trans-European Transport Network is one of the cornerstones of the EU’s transport policy and is essential for the functioning of the internal market. These more efficient procedures will speed up the development of this network and ensure smoother and more sustainable mobility for people and businesses across Europe”, said Portuguese Infrastructure Minister Pedro Nuno Santos.
This directive will cover projects that are part of the pre-selected sections of the TEN-T core network, as well as other core network corridor projects with a total cost of over €300 million.
The adopted directive had already been provisionally agreed between the EU Council and the European Parliament on 8 June 2020. The Member States’ ambassadors to the EU approved it on 17 June 2020, but its adoption - due to the linking of this directive to the Connecting Europe Facility programme, also adopted by the EU Council on Monday (see other news) - could not take place earlier.
See the document on the EU Council’s position on this issue: https://bit.ly/3xlQHi8 (Original version in French by Thomas Mangin)