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Sea2sea” Under the Trans- European Transport Network (TEN-T) Feasibility Analysis and evaluation of the viability of multimodal corridor of the approved Action “Sea2Sea” under the Trans- European Transport Network (TEN-T) 3rd. Deliverable Definition of Major Building Blocks for full Impementation of the “Sea2Sea” Corridor December 2014 ADK | AKKT | ΕVIAM | Millionis-Iliopoulou EBIAM ΕΠΕ ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΣ ΜHΛIΩΝΗΣ - ΚΩΣΤΟΥΛΑ ΗΛΙΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ Feasibilty Analysis and Evaluation of the viability of multimodal corridor of the approved Action «Sea2Sea» under the Trans- European Transport Network (TEN-T) - D3 -Definition of Major Building Blocks for full Impementation of the “Sea2Sea” Corridor TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 6 2 IDENTIFICATION OF EUROPEAN TRANSPORT POLICY & GUIDELINES ................. 7 2.1 Role of Transport Policy on EU......................................................................................... 7 2.2 Ηow Transport Policy Works ............................................................................................ 8 2.3 What EU Transport Policy does ..................................................................................... 11 2.4 The European terrain of Transport ................................................................................ 13 2.5 The next Day on EU Policy.............................................................................................. 22 3 CONNECTING EUROPE FACILITY ..................................................................... 24 3.1 CEF IN THE EU MULTI-ANNUAL FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK (MFF 2014-2020) ................ 24 3.2 CEF and the European Single Market............................................................................. 25 3.3 CEF and the EU 2020 Strategy for growth and jobs ....................................................... 25 3.4 Synergies and simplification .......................................................................................... 26 3.5 CEF and innovative financial instruments ...................................................................... 26 3.6 Coordination with other sources of EU financial support ............................................. 29 3.7 The European Infrastructure Package ........................................................................... 30 3.8 The management of EU funds under the CEF ................................................................ 30 4 HOW WILL CEF WORK? .................................................................................. 31 4.1 Management of grants .................................................................................................. 31 4.2 Support via innovative financial instruments ................................................................ 31 5 CEF TRANSPORT ............................................................................................ 32 5.1 A new policy framework ................................................................................................ 32 5.2 Financing needs and priorities ...................................................................................... 33 5.3 Targeted investments in strategic EU added-value infrastructure ................................ 33 6 GRANTS – DIRECT EU SUPPORT- INEA CALL .................................................... 34 6.1 Innovative financial instruments – leveraging EU investments ..................................... 40 6.2 A special mechanism for projects in Member States eligible to Cohesion Fund Support 40 6.3 Implementation of Operational Programmes ............................................................... 41 7 PUBLIC PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIP AS WAY OF FUNDING ....................... 43 7.1 Objective ........................................................................................................................ 43 7.2 Legal Framework for Public Private Partnerships .......................................................... 44 7.2.1 Country legal traditions ................................................................................................................... 44 7.2.2 Member State PPP Legal Framework ....................................................................................... 46 7.2.3 EU Legislation ...................................................................................................................................... 46 7.3 Accoutnability of the PPP Partnership ........................................................................... 46 7.4 Detailed Structure of the PPP Partnership & Contents ................................................. 48 7.5 Project Identification...................................................................................................... 51 7.5.1 Project Selection .................................................................................................................................. 51 7.5.2 Assessment of PPP option................................................................................................................ 52 7.6 Detailed Preparation ...................................................................................................... 56 ΑDΚ | AKKT | ΕVΙΑΜ | Milionis-Iliopouou 2 Feasibilty Analysis and Evaluation of the viability of multimodal corridor of the approved Action «Sea2Sea» under the Trans- European Transport Network (TEN-T) - D3 -Definition of Major Building Blocks for full Impementation of the “Sea2Sea” Corridor 7.6.1 Getting Ready ....................................................................................................................................... 57 7.6.2 Before launching the Tender ......................................................................................................... 61 7.7 Procurement .................................................................................................................. 73 7.7.1 Bidding Process .................................................................................................................................... 74 7.7.2 PPP Contract & Financial Close.................................................................................................... 80 7.8 Project Implementation ................................................................................................. 87 7.8.1 Contract Management...................................................................................................................... 88 7.8.2 Ex-Post Evaluation ............................................................................................................................. 99 8 PROPOSED ACTIONS FOR THE PREPATORY OF THE FUTURE FRΕIGHT CORRIDOR SEA2SEA ............................................................................................................ 103 8.1 Administrative and preparatory actions ...................................................................... 103 8.2 Scheduling of interventions ......................................................................................... 105 8.2.1 Stage 1 - Improvement of the Alexandroupolis – Ormenio railway line ................ 106 8.2.2 Stage 1 - Implementation of ERTMS ....................................................................................... 111 8.2.3 Stage 1 - Implementation of SEA2SEA Traffic Control Center ................................... 115 8.2.4 Stage 2 - Modernization of the Plovdiv – Burgas railway ............................................ 118 8.2.5 Stage 3 – Doubling and electrification of the Karnobat – Sindel railway line .... 122 8.2.6 Stage 4 – Rail connection of the new port of Kavala....................................................... 125 8.2.7 Stage 4 – Rehabilitation of Varna – Ruse rail line ............................................................ 129 8.2.8 Stage 4 – Improvement of the Ruse – Stara Zagora rail line ...................................... 132 8.2.9 Stage 4 – Ruse Regional Intermodal Terminal .................................................................. 136 8.3 Conclusions .................................................................................................................. 139 ΑDΚ | AKKT | ΕVΙΑΜ | Milionis-Iliopouou 3 Feasibilty Analysis and Evaluation of the viability of multimodal corridor of the approved Action «Sea2Sea» under the Trans- European Transport Network (TEN-T) - D3 -Definition of Major Building Blocks for full Impementation of the “Sea2Sea” Corridor TABLES Table 1:Transport Growth in EU ................................................................................................ 9 Table 2:Greenhouse GAS Emissions in the EU per Transport Sector ...................................... 12 Table 3:High Speed Rail Transport as a share of all Rail Tranport in EU ................................. 14 Table 4:Road Deaths in the EU ................................................................................................ 18 Table 5:Connecting Europe in figures ..................................................................................... 24 Table 6:Chapters-Stages-Key steps ......................................................................................... 50 Table 7:Procurement Method Steps ....................................................................................... 68 ΑDΚ | AKKT | ΕVΙΑΜ | Milionis-Iliopouou 4 Feasibilty Analysis and Evaluation of the viability of multimodal corridor of the approved Action «Sea2Sea» under the Trans-
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