Orient east med corridor p. vankerckhoven

1. Orient-East Med
Corridor Meeting
Further steps for the Corridor Forum
and working groups
Mr. P.Vankerckhoven
TEN-T days 2015 - RIGA
23rd June 2015 – Room Gamma

2. What happened in 2014?
• 4 Corridor fora's
• Member States (Ministries)
• Rail infrastructure managers
• Ports and IWW infrastructure managers
• Roads and Airports infra managers
• Representatives of the Regions
• 2 Working group sessions
• Ports & IWW
• Regions perspectives

3. What happened in 2014-15?
• Draft Corridor work plan presented to the
Ministers end of December 2014
• Comments and observations collected
between January and April 2015
• New version welcomed by Ministers end April
2015
• WP presented to the EP TRAN Committee end
of May.
• WP has been provided to Council end May

4. What will happen in 2015-16?
• Corridor fora's meeting will start
again, on the basis of the work plan
• 2 foreseen in 2015
• 4 in 2016
• 2 in 2017
• Working groups on specific items
• Cross-border issus and bottlenecks
• Regional cooperation
• Railway transport and infrastructure investment
coordination between HU-RO-BU and GR
• Tbd..

5. What will happen in 2015-16?
• Revision of the Work Plan end 2016
• On the basis of the planned/on-going infra-works
• On the basis of the CEF call results
• On the basis of the outcome of the results of the
2nd corridor study – priorities, CBA, financing..
• + Results of Fraunhofer Study
• Improve communication about the
Coordinator and Corridor activities
• End 2015 new CEF-Cohesion call

6. Thank you for your attention
Conclusions and Wrap-up
by Coordinator Grosch