TEN-T Executive Agency and Project Management

Anna LIVIERATOU-TOLLTEN-T Executive Agency Senior Programme and Policy Coordinator

European Economic and Social Committee 26 April 2011

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Structure

•Part 1– TEN-T EA : mandate and tasks

•Part 2 – TEN-T EA : projects evaluation and

management

•Part 3– Statistics

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Our mandate and tasks

• Manage and execute the TEN-T budget according to EU political priorities

• Follow-up the TEN-T projects - technical and financial implementation - all transport sectors and Member States (350 projects in total, 289 from the current Financial Perspective - €8.013 billion)

• Monitor TEN-T project implementation; carry out Programme reviews; prepare recommendations to the Commission

• Promote the Programme; raise visibility of EU support• Promote the project results at national/regional levels• Ensure co-ordination of EU funds with other instruments and

institutional partners• Provide specific expertise to project promoters

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Organigramme

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Repartition of TasksCommission (DG MOVE)

defines the policy

• Makes all TEN-T programming decisions

• Defines strategy, objectives and priority areas of action

• Selects the projects for co-financing and adopts the financing Decisions

• Monitors the Agency

• Evaluates the TEN-T programme and the Agency’s performance

Executive Agency (TEN-T EA)

turns policy into action

• Follows up the technical and financial implementation of the TEN-T projects

• Manages the entire project lifecycle

• Executes the TEN-T budget

• Gives feedback, assistance and reports to the Commission

• Provides administrative support to the beneficiaries of TEN-T financing

• Coordinates with other Commission services, programmes, Institutions and financial instruments

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Part 2

TEN-T EA : Projects evaluation and management

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Evaluation by the TEN-T EA…TEN-T EA is responsible for:

• checking the eligibility of the proposals: - arrived on time, are complete, signed by the applicant, approved by the Member State…- in compliance with EU legislation (environment…), applicants have the financial and technical capacity to carry out the project…

• conducting the external evaluation:- all proposals are reviewed independently by at least three external experts- the external experts meet in a "consensus meeting" to reach a consensus recommendation and score for each proposal

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… selection by DG MOVEDG MOVE is responsible for the:

• final selection of proposals (with the assistance of the TEN-T EA), based on the:- recommendations of the external evaluation- available budget, strategic objectives of the calls and the policy relevance of the proposals

• consultation of other EU services (DG Environment, DG REGIO…)

• consultation of:- Financial Assistance Committee (Member States)- European Parliament (one month right of scrutiny)

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External experts – their role

• Conduct an in-depth technical and impartial evaluation of proposals submitted

• Check that proposals address the objectives and priorities defined in the work programmes and calls for proposals

• Award, for each criterion, a score on a six-point scale from 0 to 5

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External experts – our expectations

• High professionnal standards

• Fairness and impartiality

• Equal treatment

• Transparency

• Efficiency and speed

• Confidentiality

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External evaluation - Objectives

• Provide in-depth technical advice on the proposals submitted by the Member States

• Check that proposals address the objectives and priorities defined in the work programmes and calls for proposals

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External evaluation - Principles

• Objectivity: each proposal shall be evaluated as it is written

• Accuracy: make a judgment against the official award criteria, and nothing else

• Consistency: apply the same standard of judgment to each proposal

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External evaluation- Criteria

1. Relevance: contribution of the Action to the TEN-T policy and the objectives of the calls, and EU dimension

2. Maturity of the Action: is the Action ready to go?

3. Impact of the Action: anticipated socio-economic effects and impact on the environment

4. Quality of the Action: completeness and clarity of the proposal, description of the planned activities, coherence between objectives, activities and planned resources, soundness of the project management process

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External evaluation Steps and outcome

• Step 1. Individual assessment

• Step 2. Consensus meetings – Scoring proposals from 0 to 5

• Outcome: experts will not recommend for funding proposals scoring <3 points for one or more of the four blocks of criteria

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Projects follow-up methods and tools (1)

• Commission Decision

• Strategic Action Plan (SAP)

• Action Status Report (ASR)

• Final report

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Projects follow-up methods and tools (2)

• Site visits

• Regular contacts with beneficiaries

• Communication Strategy

• TENtec

• Knowledge based management

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Part 3

Statistics

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TEN-T Financing needs (2007-2013)

56%

2%

16%

13%

13%National funding

TEN-T budget

EIB loans for TEN-T project

Structural/Cohesion funds for TEN-T

Financing gap

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Financing needs-Initiatives• The current challenge – to improve/complete the existing network

so it connects all of Europe’s regions• Finance is needed from public (EU, National and regional

governments) and private (financial institutions and corporate) sources to fill the financing gap.

• EU has developed innovative financial instruments (LGTT, Project Bonds) and taken a more active role in promoting and offering expertise on PPPs

• EU support (EC Services, TEN-T EA, EIB, EPEC) from a PPP Coordination Framework and Project Pipeline to assist in identifying/screening of projects for PPP potential, and PPP procurement procedures.

• The EU Project Bond initiative can help infrastructure project promoters enhance the credit quality of their senior debt = more competitive pricing for financing.

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Budget sources in TEN-T portfolio

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Modal Split (2007-2009) in budget

1%

6% 6% 3%3%

9%

1%

5%

0%

61%

0%

5%

Airport

ATM

ERTMS

Galileo

ITS

IWW

MOS

Multimodal

Port

Rail

RIS

Road

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Number of Projects submitted and selected by call (2007-2009)

47% 47% 34% 39%

48%

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

Annual 2007 Annual 2008 Annual 2009 EERP MAP Total

Num

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f pro

ject

s

Submitted

Selected

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Funding submitted and selected by call (2007-2009)

12% 23% 22% 24%

41%

-

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,000

12,000

14,000

16,000

18,000

Annual 2007 Annual 2008 Annual 2009 EERP MAP Total

€m

illio

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Submitted Support

Selected Support

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Number of Projects Submitted and Selected by Member State Group (2007-2009)

41%

48% 61%

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

EU-15 EU-12 EU-wide

Num

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f pro

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s

Submitted

Selected

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Funding submitted and selected by Member State Group

22%

31%

80%

-

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,000

12,000

14,000

16,000

EU-15 EU-12 EU-wide

€m

illio

n

Submitted Support

Selected Support

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