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EUROPEAN UNION REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAMME AND PROJECT COORDINATION DIRECTORATE MANAGING AUTHORITY OF OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME ON TRANSPORT 2007-2013 ANNUAL REPORT 2015 1 EUROPEAN UNION Contents SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................. 4 ACRONYMS................................................................................................................................. 5 LIST OF TABLES ......................................................................................................................... 7 I. DENTIFICATION ...................................................................................................................... 9 II. OVERVIEW OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF OPT FOR 2015 ............................................ 9 1. Achievement and analysis of the progress .............................................................................. 9 1.1. Physical Implementation of OPT as of 31.12.2015..........................................................10 1.2. Financial Implementation of OPT as of 31.12.2015 ........................................................15 1.3. Information on Breakdown of Use of the Two Funds ......................................................22 1.4. Provided assistance by target groups ...............................................................................24 1.5. Assistance repaid or reused .............................................................................................25 1.6 Analysis of OPT Physical and Financial Progress, and for the Purposes of the Lisbon Earmarking under OPT in Particular (Lisbon Earmarking under OPT) .................................25 1.7. Analysis of the overall progress under OPT ....................................................................27 2. Information about Compliance with Community law (Problems and Measures Taken to overcome them) ........................................................................................................................28 3. Significant Problems Encountered and Measures Taken to Overcome Them .........................29 4. Changes in the context of implementation of OPT during 2015 .............................................30 4.1 Changes in the indicative list of major projects ................................................................30 5. Substantial modification pursuant to Art. 57 of Regulation 1083/2006 ..................................31 6. Complementarity with Other Community Instruments ...........................................................32 6.1 Co-operation with JASPERS ...........................................................................................32 7. Co-operation with international financial institutions (IFI) ....................................................33 8. Monitoring and evaluation measures and OPT audits carried out ...........................................35 8.1 Sessions of the Monitoring Committee of the OPT in 2015 ..............................................35 8.2 On-the-spot checks performed in 2015 ............................................................................38 8.3 Audits carried out of MA of OPT in 2015 ........................................................................39 9. Progress made in financing and implementing financial engineering instruments as defined in Article 44 of Regulation 1083/2006. ..........................................................................................42 10. Horizontal Issues .................................................................................................................42 2 EUROPEAN UNION 10.1 Ex-ante control performed by MA of OPT in relation to the public procurement procedures for OPT projects ..................................................................................................42 III. Implementation of Operational Programme “Transport” by priority axes.................................46 1. Priority Axis I – “Development of the Railway Infrastructure along the Trans-European and Major National Transport Axes” ...............................................................................................46 1.1. Achievement of targets and analysis of progress .............................................................46 1.2. Significant problems encountered in the preparation and execution of the projects under the Priority Axis and undertaken measures ............................................................................56 2. Priority Axis II – “Development of Road Infrastructure along the Trans-European and Major National Transport Axes” ..........................................................................................................57 2.1 Achievement of targets and analysis of progress ..............................................................57 2.2 Significant problems encountered in preparing and implementing projects under the priority axis and measures taken to overcome them ...............................................................68 3. Priority Axis III – “Improvement of intermodality for passengers and freight” ......................69 3.1 Achievement of targets and analysis of the progress ........................................................69 3.2 Significant problems encountered in preparing and implementing projects under the priority axis and measures taken to overcome them ...............................................................76 4. Priority Axis IV “Improvement of the maritime and inland-waterway navigation” ................77 4.1 Achievement of targets and analysis of the progress ........................................................77 4.2 Significant problems encountered in preparing and implementing projects under the priority axis and measures taken to overcome them ...............................................................81 5. Priority Axis V – “Technical Assistance” ..............................................................................82 5.1 Achievement of targets and analysis of the progress ........................................................82 5.2 Significant problems encountered in preparing and implementing projects under the priority axis and measures taken to overcome them ...............................................................87 6. Use of technical assistance ....................................................................................................87 7. Administrative capacity of the MA and the beneficiaries and measures taken to improve it ...88 8. Preparation of Operational Programme “Transport and Transport Infrastructure” 2014 – 2020 .................................................................................................................................................89 9. Information and publicity measures, implementation of the Communication Plan .................92 9.1 Information and publicity campaigns in the media ...........................................................93 9.2 Statistics of the traffic rate, maintenance and update of the website of OPT .....................96 9.3 Printed advertising and promotional materials .................................................................96 9.4 Development and maintenance of an information network between PR experts of OPT MA and beneficiaries ...................................................................................................................97 9.5 Organisation and holding of public events .......................................................................97 3 EUROPEAN UNION SUMMARY The annual report of the implementation of Operational Programme “Transport” (OPT) 2015 was drafted pursuant to Art. 67 of Council Regulation (EC) 1083/2006 and in compliance with the requirements of Regulation (EC) 1828/2006 of the Commission. It follows the structure set out in Regulation 1828/for preparation of annual reports and the structure of the annual implementation reports of Operational Programme “Transport” 2007-2014 established over previous years. By of the end of 2015, the amount of the grant awarded was 105.96% of the programme’s budget which, calculated on the basis of concluded commercial contracts is 104.87%. Under implementation are 25 investment projects, and 19 of them are already completed. Under realisation are 11 “major“ projects (over 50 million EUR), and each one of them is approved also by the European Commission (EC). The last approved by EC project is the one for Gabrovo bypass road. The procedure for its approval concluded on 23.09.2015 with Decision C (2015) 6606 of EC. Under Priority Axis 1, “Development of the Railway Infrastructure along the Trans-European and Major National Transport Axes”, during 2015 was given the official start of construction works for rehabilitation of Burgas Railway Station. The rehabilitation of the railway station was completed at the beginning of 2016. As a result of the railway projects implementation are rehabilitated 330 km of railway lines by the end of 2015. In 2015, under Priority Axis 2 “Development of Road Infrastructure along the Trans- European and Major National Transport Axes” were completed Maritsa Motorway, Lot 2 and 4 of Struma Motorway, Section 1 of Sofia Ring Road's Western Arc and the bypass road of Montana. As a result of road projects implementation, at the end of 2015 are rehabilitated 19 km and are constructed 308