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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-884/annex-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-884/annex-II.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2004/884",
  "legislation_title": "Decision No 884/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 amending Decision No 1692/96/EC on Community guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-884",
  "path": "annex/II",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Annex III of Decision No 1692/96/EC shall be replaced by the following:\n\"ANNEX III\nPRIORITY PROJECTS ON WHICH WORK IS DUE TO START BEFORE 2010\n1.\nRailway axis Berlin-Verona/Milano-Bologna-Napoli-Messina-Palermo\nHalle/Leipzig-Nürnberg (2015);\nNürnberg-München (2006);\nMünchen-Kufstein (2015);\nKufstein-Innsbruck (2009);\nBrenner tunnel (2015), cross-border section;\nVerona-Napoli (2007);\nMilano-Bologna (2006);\nRail/road bridge over the Strait of Messina-Palermo (2015).\n2.\nHigh-speed railway axis Paris-Bruxelles/Brussel-Köln-Amsterdam-London\nChannel tunnel-London (2007);\nBruxelles/Brussel-Liege-Köln (2007);\nBruxelles/Brussel-Rotterdam-Amsterdam (2007)\n3.\nHigh-speed railway axis of south-west Europe\nLisboa/Porto-Madrid (2011);\nMadrid-Barcelona (2005);\nBarcelona-Figueras-Perpignan (2008);\nPerpignan-Montpellier (2015);\nMontpellier-Nîmes (2010);\nMadrid-Vitoria-Irún/Hendaye (2010);\nIrún/Hendaye-Dax, cross-border section (2010);\nDax-Bordeaux (2020);\nBordeaux-Tours (2015).\n4.\nHigh-speed railway axis east\nParis-Baudrecourt (2007);\nMetz-Luxembourg (2007);\nSaarbrücken-Mannheim (2007).\n5.\nBetuwe line (2007).\n6.\nRailway axis Lyon-Trieste-Divača/Koper-Divača-Ljubljana-Budapest-Ukrainian border\nLyon-St Jean de Maurienne (2015);\nMont-Cenis tunnel (2015-2017), cross-border section;\nBussoleno-Torino (2011);\nTorino-Venezia (2010);\nVenezia-Ronchi Sud-Trieste Divača (2015);\nKoper-Divača-Ljubljana (2015)\nLjubljana-Budapest (2015).\n7.\nMotorway axis Igoumenitsa/Patra-Athina-Sofia-Budapest\nVia Egnatia (2006);\nPathe (2008);\nSofia-Kulata-Greek/Bulgarian border motorway (2010), with Promahon-Kulata as cross-border section;\nNadlac-Sibiu motorway (branch towards Bucuresti and Constanţa) (2007).\n8.\nMultimodal axis Portugal/Spain-rest of Europe\nRailway La Coruña-Lisboa-Sines (2010);\nRailway Lisboa-Valladolid (2010);\nRailway Lisboa-Faro (2004);\nLisboa-Valladolid motorway (2010);\nLa Coruña-Lisboa motorway (2003);\nSevilla-Lisboa motorway (completed 2001 );\nNew Lisboa airport (2015).\n9.\nRailway axis Cork-Dublin-Belfast-Stranraer (2001)\n10.\nMalpensa (completed 2001)\n11.\nÖresund fixed link (completed 2000)\n12.\nNordic triangle railway/road axis\nRoad and railway projects in Sweden (2010);\nHelsinki-Turku motorway (2010);\nRailway Kerava-Lahti (2006);\nHelsinki-Vaalimaa motorway (2015);\nRailway Helsinki-Vainikkala (Russian border) (2014).\n13.\nUK/Ireland/Benelux road axis (2010)\n14.\nWest coast main line (2007)\n15.\nGalileo (2008)\n16.\nFreight railway axis Sines-Madrid-Paris\nNew high-capacity rail axis across the Pyrenees;\nRailway Sines-Badajoz (2010).\nRailway line Algeciras-Bobadilla (2010)\n17.\nRailway axis Paris-Strasbourg-Stuttgart-Wien-Bratislava\nBaudrecourt-Strasbourg-Stuttgart (2015) with the Kehl bridge as cross-border section;\nStuttgart-Ulm (2012);\nMünchen-Salzburg (2015), cross-border section;\nSalzburg-Wien (2012);\nWien-Bratislava (2010), cross-border section.\n18.\nRhine/Meuse-Main-Danube inland waterway axis\nRhine-Meuse (2019) with the lock of Lanaye as cross-border section;\nVilshofen-Straubing (2013);\nWien-Bratislava (2015) cross-border section;\nPalkovicovo-Mohács (2014);\nBottlenecks in Romania and Bulgaria (2011).\n19.\nHigh-speed rail interoperability on the Iberian peninsula\nMadrid-Andalucía (2010);\nNorth-east (2010);\nMadrid-Levante and Mediterranean (2010);\nNorth/North-west corridor, including Vigo-Porto (2010);\nExtremadura (2010).\n20.\nFehmarn Belt railway axis\nFehmarn Belt fixed rail/road link (2014);\nRailway for access in Denmark from Öresund (2015);\nRailway for access in Germany from Hamburg (2015);\nRailway Hannover-Hamburg/Bremen (2015).\n21.\nMotorways of the sea\nProjects of common interest identified in accordance with Article 12a and concerning the following motorways of the sea:\nMotorway 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));\nMotorway of the sea of western Europe (leading from Portugal and Spain via the Atlantic Arc to the North Sea and the Irish Sea) (2010);\nMotorway of the sea of south-east Europe (connecting the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean to include Cyprus) (2010);\nMotorway 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 (2010).\n22.\nRailway axis Athina-Sofia-Budapest-Wien-Praha-Nürnberg/Dresden\nRailway Greek/Bulgarian border-Kulata-Sofia-Vidin/Calafat (2015);\nRailway Curtici-Brasov (towards Bucuresti and Constanta) (2010);\nRailway Budapest-Wien (2010), cross-border section;\nRailway Břeclav-Praha-Nürnberg (2010), with Nürnberg-Praha as cross-border section.\n• Railway axis Praha-Linz (2016).\n23.\nRailway axis Gdansk-Warszawa-Brno/Bratislava-Wien\nRailway Gdansk-Warszawa-Katowice (2015);\nRailway Katowice-Břeclav (2010);\nRailway Katowice-Zilina-Nove Mesto n.V. (2010).\n24.\nRailway axis Lyon/Genova-Basel-Duisburg-Rotterdam/Antwerpen\nLyon-Mulhouse-Mülheim, with Mulhouse-Mülheim as cross-border section (2018);\nGenova-Milano/Novara-Swiss border (2013);\nBasel-Karlsruhe (2015);\nFrankfurt-Mannheim (2012);\nDuisburg-Emmerich (2009);\n\"Iron Rhine\" Rheidt-Antwerpen, cross-border section (2010).\n25.\nMotorway axis Gdansk-Brno/Bratislava-Wien\nGdansk-Katowice motorway (2010);\nKatowice-Brno/Zilina motorway (2010), cross-border section;\nBrno-Wien motorway (2009), cross-border section.\n26.\nRailway/road axis Ireland/United Kingdom/continental Europe\nRoad/railway axis linking Dublin with the North (Belfast-Larne) and South (Cork) (2010);\nRoad/railway axis Hull-Liverpool (2015);\nRailway Felixstowe-Nuneaton (2011);\nRailway Crewe-Holyhead (2008).\n27.\n\"Rail Baltica\" axis Warsaw-Kaunas-Riga-Tallinn-Helsinki\nWarsaw-Kaunas (2010);\nKaunas-Riga (2014);\nRiga-Tallinn (2016).\n28.\n\"Eurocaprail\" on the Brussels-Luxembourg-Strasbourg railway axis\nBrussels-Luxembourg-Strasbourg (2012).\n29.\nRailway axis of the Ionian/Adriatic intermodal corridor\nKozani-Kalambaka-Igoumenitsa (2012);\nIoannina-Antirrio-Rio-Kalamata (2014).\n30.\nInland waterway Seine-Scheldt.\nNavigability improvements Deulemont-Gent (2012-2014-2016);\nCompiègne-Cambrai (2012-2014-2016).\nThe 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.\".",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Including the two high-speed train stations in Rotterdam and Amsterdam which were not included in the project endorsed by the Essen European Council in 1994."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Including links Lisboa-Porto (2013), Lisboa-Madrid (2010) and Aveiro-Salamanca (2015)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Parts of this route correspond to pan-European corridor V."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Including upgrade of ports and airports (2015) as in accordance with the contents endorsed by the Essen/Dublin European Council."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "A further increase in capacity on this line was decided in 2003 and added as a separate project."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Project completed."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Project completed."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "A few short sections of road and railway line will be completed between 2010 and 2015."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "Part of this route corresponds to the definition of pan-European corridor VII."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "Including to the Black Sea."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "This major route largely corresponds to the definition of pan-European corridor IV."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "This major route largely corresponds to the definition of pan-European corridor VI."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "Including the TGV Rhin-Rhône, minus the western branch."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f14",
      "text": "Project No 5 (Betuwe line) links Rotterdam and Emmerich."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f15",
      "text": "This major route largely corresponds to the definition of pan-European corridor VI."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f16",
      "text": "Including Essen project No 13: road axis Ireland/United Kingdom/Benelux."
    }
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