What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

Removed:Recital 69 a (new): (69 a) In order to avoid stranded assets in Member States, due to significant delays on TEN-T projects in neighbouring countries, the Commission should closely monitor the planning, the start and the completion of work of the projects on the networks, as set in the implementing acts. The Commission should submit annual reports to the European Parliament and national Parliaments. In the event of significant delays, that is delays of more than 2 years, the Commission should immediately launch infringement procedures.

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Removed:Recital 69 b (new): (69 b) The European Coordinator may cooperate with relevant international organisations, such as the Transport Community established under the Transport Community Treaty1a in the field of road, rail, inland waterway and maritime transport, as well as the development of the transport network between the European Union and the South East European Parties. / 1a OJ L 278, 27.10.2017, p. 3.

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Removed:Recital 69 c (new): (69 c) Based on the work plans, the Union should also be able to conclude high-level agreements with the neighbouring countries concerned, setting out the priorities for infrastructure planning and for funding on their territory.

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Removed:Recital 70: (70) The technical basis of the maps specifying the trans-European transport network is provided by the interactive geographical and technical information system for the trans-European transport network (TENtec), provides the technical basis of the maps reflecting the evolution of the trans-European transport network with a view of achieving the corresponding final goals reflected in Annex I and in the lists of Annex II of this Regulation.

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Removed:Recital 70 a (new): (70 a) Military mobility aims to harmonise rules across the Member States and to explore the potential of a civilian-military (“dual use”) approach to infrastructure development in order to reinforce the Union’s defence and resilience.

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Removed:Recital 71 a (new): (71 a) Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has confirmed the urgent need to strengthen the Union’s ability to move military forces at the necessary scale and speed and to step up efforts to substantially enhance military mobility. As highlighted by the EU “Strategic Compass for Security and Defence” adopted by the Council on 21 March 2022,- For a European Union that protects its citizens, values and interests and contributes to international peace and security – the Union needs to strengthen dual-use transport infrastructure across the trans-European transport network in order to promote rapid and seamless movement of military personnel, material and equipment for operational deployments and exercises, including humanitarian transport, and to substantially decrease red tape through simplified and uniform administrative procedures, especially for customs requirements. There is a dedicated budget for dual-use transport infrastructure projects under the CEF for the period 2021-2027 (CEF II). However, the limited budget allocation for Military Mobility, representing a budget of EUR 1,69 billion, as adopted in 2020, should be substantially and rapidly increased in order to adapt the TEN-T network to the new geopolitical landscape and improve dual civil and defence use across the Union.

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Removed:Recital 72: (72) In order to maximise consistency between the guidelines and the programming of the relevant financial instruments available at Union level, trans-European transport network funding should comply with this Regulation and be based, in particular, on Regulation (EU) No 2021/1153 of the European Parliament and of the Council29 . In addition, network funding should also build on funding and financing instruments provided under other Union law, including InvestEU, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, Cohesion Policy, Horizon Europe, Innovation Fund, and other financing instruments established by the European Investment Bank. To enable the financing of projects of common interest, references to ‘multimodal logistics platforms’, ‘motorways of the sea’ and ‘telematic applications’ in Regulation (EU) 2021/1153 should be respectively construed as references to ‘multimodal freight terminals’, ‘European Maritime Space’ and ‘ICT systems for transport’ as defined in this Regulation. For the same purpose, references to ‘comprehensive network’ in Regulation (EU) 2021/1153 should be construed as including ‘extended core network’ as defined in this Regulation, unless a Member State has already completed its core network.

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Removed:Recital 73 a (new): (73 a) The current budget of the Connecting Europe Facility 2021-2027 (CEF II) has proven insufficient given the rising needs of the transport sector and the new geopolitical context as well as the enhanced TEN-T infrastructure requirements. The Commission and Member States should explore new funding opportunities and plan an ambitious successor programme to CEF II for the MFF post-2027, with reinforced funding. This CEF III should be properly funded and significantly increased, and include a dedicated “external transport” envelope in order to increase cooperation with third countries in terms of cross-border projects and infrastructure deployment.

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Removed:Recital 73 b (new): (73 b) An increased budget and resources should also be reflected and proportional to the increase of competences and roles of the relevant European agencies, including the European Railway Agency.

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Removed:Recital 73 c (new): (73 c) The Commission should ensure that the European Coordinators have sufficient resources and support to perform the tasks prescribed to them in this legislation: Particularly with an increased scope of the coordinators’ roles and their cross-border responsibilities, the Commission should allocate sufficient budget and personnel to European Coordinators.

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Removed:Recital 74 a (new): (74 a) The inclusion of transport nodes (ports, airports, and urban nodes) in Annexes I and II entails the application of other EU legal acts. In order to provide legal certainty and to enable long-term strategic planning, it is essential to keep the network as stable as possible and avoid exclusions, by taking into account their European added value for the internal market and their geostrategic relevance to the Union’s defence.

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Removed:Recital 77: (77) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Regulation, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission as regards implementing acts which specify reference water levels and minimum requirements per corridor, per river basin or per waterway section (good navigation status), which define a single entity for the construction and management of cross-border infrastructure projects of common interest, which establish a methodology for the urban mobility data to be collected by Member States and implementing acts for each work plan of the European Transport Corridors and the two horizontal priorities, as well as for the implementation of specific sections of the European Transport Corridor or for the implementation of specific transport infrastructure requirements of the European Transport Corridor or of the horizontal priorities. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council32.

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Removed:Article 2 – paragraph 1: 1. This Regulation applies to the trans-European transport network as shown on the maps set out in Annex I. The trans-European transport network comprises transport infrastructure, including infrastructure for the deployment of alternative fuels and ICT systems for transport according to Directive 2014/94/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council and Directive 2010/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, respectively.

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point e: (e) 'bottleneck' means a physical, technical, functional, operational or administrative barrier which leads to a system break, congestion or standstills in either direction of traffic, or recurrent interruptions of long-distance or cross-border flows;

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f: (f) 'urban node' means a functional urban area where elements of the transport infrastructure of the trans-European transport network, such as ports including passenger terminals, airports, railway stations, bus terminals, infrastructure for active modes, multimodal freight hubs and facilities, train turnaround terminals and freight terminals, located in or around the urban area, are connected with other elements of that infrastructure and with the infrastructure for regional and local and urban traffic of passengers and freight;

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point k: (k) 'interoperability' means the ability, including all the regulatory, technical, administrative and operational conditions, of the infrastructure, including digital infrastructure in a transport mode or segment, as well as between different modes, to allow safe and uninterrupted traffic and information flows which achieve the required levels of performance for that infrastructure mode or segment;

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point l: (l) ‘multimodal passenger hub’ means a connection point between at least two transport modes for passengers, where travel information, access to public transport and transfers between modes, including Park and Ride stations and active modes, are ensured and which act as an interface within and between urban nodes and longer-distance transport networks;

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point m: (m) 'multimodal freight terminal' means a structure equipped for transhipment between at least two transport modes or between two different rail or barge systems, and for temporary storage of freight, such as terminals in inland or maritime ports, along inland waterways, in airports as well as rail road terminals, including multimodal logistics platforms as referred to in Regulation (EU) 2021/1153;

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point p: (p) ‘active modes’ means the transport of people or goods, through non-motorised means, based on human physical activity or by a combination of electric motor and human power;

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point q: (q) ’ICT systems for transport' means information and communications technology systems and applications using information, communication, navigation or positioning/localisation technologies, including space based technologies, enabling to process, store and exchange the data and information needed to manage infrastructure, mobility and traffic on the trans-European transport network effectively, to report relevant information to authorities and to provide value-added services to citizens, shippers and operators, including systems for resilient, safe, secure, environmentally sound and capacity-efficient use of the network. They include systems, technologies and services referred to in points (r) to (x) and may also include on-board devices with corresponding infrastructure components;

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point v: (v) ‘Air Traffic Management (ATM)' means the aggregation of the airborne, ground-based and space-based functions and services (air traffic services, airspace management and air traffic flow management) required to ensure the safe and efficient movement of aircraft during all phases of operations;

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point w: (w) 'European Rail Traffic Management System' (ERTMS) means the system defined in the Annex, point 2.2, to the Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/91938 , and in the context of implementation deadlines, it refers to the two existing ERTMS parts: ETCS and GSM-R/GPRS/FRMCS;

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point x: (x) 'radio-based ERTMS’ means the radio based train control system ETCS application level 2 or level 3 that can be used with or without a class B system and with or without lineside signals and uses radio (GSM-R/GPRS/FRMCS) to pass all safety and non-safety related data exchange between track and train pursuant to Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/91939;

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point y a (new): (ya) 'free-flowing river' means a river that supports connectivity of water, sediment, nutrients, matter and organisms within the river system and with surrounding landscapes, in all of the following four dimensions: longitudinal (connectivity between up- and downstream); lateral (connectivity to floodplain and riparian areas); vertical (connectivity to groundwater and atmosphere); and temporal (connectivity based on seasonality of fluxes);

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point z: (z) ‘maritime port’ means an area of land and water made up of such infrastructure and equipment so as to permit, principally, the reception of sea-going vessels, their loading and unloading, the storage of goods, the receipt and delivery of those goods and the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers, crew and other persons and any other infrastructure necessary for transport operators within the port area;

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point aa: (aa) ‘short-sea shipping’ means the movement of cargo and passengers by sea between ports situated in geographical waters of one or several Member States or between a port situated in waters of Member States and a port situated in waters of a neighbouring third country having a coastline on the seas bordering waters of one or several Member States;

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point aj: (aj) ‘maintenance’ means activities and works that have to be undertaken routinely or periodically with the intention of maintaining the condition and capability of existing infrastructure during its lifetime in order to ensure high level of services and safety, in line with this Regulation;

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point an a (new): (an a) ‘project authorising decision’ means the decision or a set of decisions, which may be of an administrative nature, taken simultaneously or successively by an authority or by authorities of a Member State, not including administrative and judicial appeal authorities, under a national legal system and administrative law that determine whether or not a project promoter is entitled to implement the project on the geographical area concerned on the trans-European transport network, without prejudice to any decision taken in the context of an administrative or judicial appeal procedure in accordance with Directive (EU) 2021/1187 of the European Parliament and the Council (the "Smart TEN-T Directive");

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Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point an b (new): (an b) ‘designated authority’ means the authority which is the point of contact for the project promoter and which facilitates the efficient and structured processing of permit-granting procedures in accordance with Directive (EU) 2021/1187 of the European Parliament and the Council (the “Smart TEN-T Directive”);

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