Annex II

Annex III of Decision No 1692/96/EC shall be replaced by the following:

"ANNEX III

PRIORITY PROJECTS ON WHICH WORK IS DUE TO START BEFORE 2010

1.

Railway axis Berlin-Verona/Milano-Bologna-Napoli-Messina-Palermo

• Halle/Leipzig-Nürnberg (2015);

• Nürnberg-München (2006);

• München-Kufstein (2015);

• Kufstein-Innsbruck (2009);

• Brenner tunnel (2015), cross-border section;

• Verona-Napoli (2007);

• Milano-Bologna (2006);

• Rail/road bridge over the Strait of Messina-Palermo (2015).

2.

High-speed railway axis Paris-Bruxelles/Brussel-Köln-Amsterdam-London

• Channel tunnel-London (2007);

• Bruxelles/Brussel-Liege-Köln (2007);

• Bruxelles/Brussel-Rotterdam-Amsterdam (2007)^f1

3.

High-speed railway axis of south-west Europe

• Lisboa/Porto-Madrid (2011)^f2;

• Madrid-Barcelona (2005);

• Barcelona-Figueras-Perpignan (2008);

• Perpignan-Montpellier (2015);

• Montpellier-Nîmes (2010);

• Madrid-Vitoria-Irún/Hendaye (2010);

• Irún/Hendaye-Dax, cross-border section (2010);

• Dax-Bordeaux (2020);

• Bordeaux-Tours (2015).

4.

High-speed railway axis east

• Paris-Baudrecourt (2007);

• Metz-Luxembourg (2007);

• Saarbrücken-Mannheim (2007).

5.

Betuwe line (2007).

6.

Railway axis Lyon-Trieste-Divača/Koper-Divača-Ljubljana-Budapest-Ukrainian border^f3

• Lyon-St Jean de Maurienne (2015);

• Mont-Cenis tunnel (2015-2017), cross-border section;

• Bussoleno-Torino (2011);

• Torino-Venezia (2010);

• Venezia-Ronchi Sud-Trieste Divača (2015);

• Koper-Divača-Ljubljana (2015)

• Ljubljana-Budapest (2015).

7.

Motorway axis Igoumenitsa/Patra-Athina-Sofia-Budapest

• Via Egnatia (2006);

• Pathe (2008);

• Sofia-Kulata-Greek/Bulgarian border motorway (2010), with Promahon-Kulata as cross-border section;

• Nadlac-Sibiu motorway (branch towards Bucuresti and Constanţa) (2007).

8.

Multimodal axis Portugal/Spain-rest of Europe^f4

• Railway La Coruña-Lisboa-Sines (2010);

• Railway Lisboa-Valladolid (2010);

• Railway Lisboa-Faro (2004);

• Lisboa-Valladolid motorway (2010);

• La Coruña-Lisboa motorway (2003);

• Sevilla-Lisboa motorway (completed 2001 );

• New Lisboa airport (2015).

9.

Railway axis Cork-Dublin-Belfast-Stranraer^f5 (2001)

10.

Malpensa (completed 2001)^f6

11.

Öresund fixed link (completed 2000)^f7

12.

Nordic triangle railway/road axis

• Road and railway projects in Sweden^f8 (2010);

• Helsinki-Turku motorway (2010);

• Railway Kerava-Lahti (2006);

• Helsinki-Vaalimaa motorway (2015);

• Railway Helsinki-Vainikkala (Russian border) (2014).

13.

UK/Ireland/Benelux road axis (2010)

14.

West coast main line (2007)

15.

Galileo (2008)

16.

Freight railway axis Sines-Madrid-Paris

• New high-capacity rail axis across the Pyrenees;

• Railway Sines-Badajoz (2010).

• Railway line Algeciras-Bobadilla (2010)

17.

Railway axis Paris-Strasbourg-Stuttgart-Wien-Bratislava

• Baudrecourt-Strasbourg-Stuttgart (2015) with the Kehl bridge as cross-border section;

• Stuttgart-Ulm (2012);

• München-Salzburg (2015), cross-border section;

• Salzburg-Wien (2012);

• Wien-Bratislava (2010), cross-border section.

18.

Rhine/Meuse-Main-Danube inland waterway axis^f9

• Rhine-Meuse (2019) with the lock of Lanaye as cross-border section;

• Vilshofen-Straubing (2013);

• Wien-Bratislava (2015) cross-border section;

• Palkovicovo-Mohács (2014);

• Bottlenecks in Romania and Bulgaria (2011).

19.

High-speed rail interoperability on the Iberian peninsula

• Madrid-Andalucía (2010);

• North-east (2010);

• Madrid-Levante and Mediterranean (2010);

• North/North-west corridor, including Vigo-Porto (2010);

• Extremadura (2010).

20.

Fehmarn Belt railway axis

• Fehmarn Belt fixed rail/road link (2014);

• Railway for access in Denmark from Öresund (2015);

• Railway for access in Germany from Hamburg (2015);

• Railway Hannover-Hamburg/Bremen (2015).

21.

Motorways of the sea

Projects of common interest identified in accordance with Article 12a and concerning the following motorways of the sea:

• Motorway of the Baltic Sea (linking the Baltic Sea Member States with Member States in Central and Western Europe, including the route through the North Sea/Baltic Sea Canal (Kiel Canal) (2010));

• Motorway of the sea of western Europe (leading from Portugal and Spain via the Atlantic Arc to the North Sea and the Irish Sea) (2010);

• Motorway of the sea of south-east Europe (connecting the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean to include Cyprus) (2010);

• Motorway of the sea of south-west Europe (western Mediterranean), connecting Spain, France, Italy and including Malta, and linking with the motorway of the sea of south-east Europe^f10 (2010).

22.

Railway axis Athina-Sofia-Budapest-Wien-Praha-Nürnberg/Dresden^f11

• Railway Greek/Bulgarian border-Kulata-Sofia-Vidin/Calafat (2015);

• Railway Curtici-Brasov (towards Bucuresti and Constanta) (2010);

• Railway Budapest-Wien (2010), cross-border section;

• Railway Břeclav-Praha-Nürnberg (2010), with Nürnberg-Praha as cross-border section.

• Railway axis Praha-Linz (2016).

23.

Railway axis Gdansk-Warszawa-Brno/Bratislava-Wien^f12

• Railway Gdansk-Warszawa-Katowice (2015);

• Railway Katowice-Břeclav (2010);

• Railway Katowice-Zilina-Nove Mesto n.V. (2010).

24.

Railway axis Lyon/Genova-Basel-Duisburg-Rotterdam/Antwerpen

• Lyon-Mulhouse-Mülheim^f13, with Mulhouse-Mülheim as cross-border section (2018);

• Genova-Milano/Novara-Swiss border (2013);

• Basel-Karlsruhe (2015);

• Frankfurt-Mannheim (2012);

• Duisburg-Emmerich (2009)^f14;

• "Iron Rhine" Rheidt-Antwerpen, cross-border section (2010).

25.

Motorway axis Gdansk-Brno/Bratislava-Wien^f15

• Gdansk-Katowice motorway (2010);

• Katowice-Brno/Zilina motorway (2010), cross-border section;

• Brno-Wien motorway (2009), cross-border section.

26.

Railway/road axis Ireland/United Kingdom/continental Europe

• Road/railway axis linking Dublin with the North (Belfast-Larne) and South (Cork) (2010)^f16;

• Road/railway axis Hull-Liverpool (2015);

• Railway Felixstowe-Nuneaton (2011);

• Railway Crewe-Holyhead (2008).

27.

"Rail Baltica" axis Warsaw-Kaunas-Riga-Tallinn-Helsinki

• Warsaw-Kaunas (2010);

• Kaunas-Riga (2014);

• Riga-Tallinn (2016).

28.

"Eurocaprail" on the Brussels-Luxembourg-Strasbourg railway axis

• Brussels-Luxembourg-Strasbourg (2012).

29.

Railway axis of the Ionian/Adriatic intermodal corridor

• Kozani-Kalambaka-Igoumenitsa (2012);

• Ioannina-Antirrio-Rio-Kalamata (2014).

30.

Inland waterway Seine-Scheldt.

• Navigability improvements Deulemont-Gent (2012-2014-2016);

• Compiègne-Cambrai (2012-2014-2016).

The date, agreed in advance, for completing the work is shown in brackets. The dates for completing the work for projects 1 to 20 and 30 and the details of the sections are as indicated in the High-Level Group's report where these have actually been identified.".