Brussels, 01/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, the European Commission is expected to adopt a decision on the review of the trans-European Transport Networks. As it had announced in its White Paper on Transport Policy in the run-up to 2010, these new guidelines will be restricted to the period 2001/2004 since a more detailed review of the networks will take place once the EU is enlarged. The new list of projects 1) notes progress achieved since priorities were set in Essen in 1994 (Malpensa airport, Oresund Bridge and the Cork/Belfast connection); 2) confirms the importance of the Brenner and Lyons-Turin Trans-Alpine rail projects; and 3) includes new projects aiming to dissolve bottlenecks, extend rail freight and intermodality and promote the use of telematics for transport. The Commission recently adopted a multiannual programme for financing these projects (see EUROPE of 20 September, p.8). In terms of the new projects, the draft decision would award EUR 29.6 billion for high-speed interoperability on the Iberian network; nearly EUR 14 billion for the Milan/Bologna/Verona/Naples high-speed line; EUR 9.5 billion for the freight and high-speed rail line between Stuttgart/Munich/Salzburg and Vienna; EUR 5 billion for large-capacity links crossing the Pyrenees; EUR 3.6 billion for the Fehmarn Belt bridge/rail and road tunnel link between Germany and Denmark; EUR 3.2 billion for the Galileo satellite navigation system; EUR 790 million for the mixed high-speed link between Montpellier-Nîmes; and EUR 700 million for improving navigation on the Danube.