Rail: studies, works or mixed

Call updates

28 August 2024

Information update on the 2023 CEF Transport COMPCOEN call

Call published: 26/09/2023

Call deadline: 30/01/2024

Indicative budget: EUR 350 000 000

Total budget requested by the applicants: EUR 404 321 219.10

Number of admissible and eligible proposals: 12

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of successful proposals: 5

Total budget for the successful proposals: EUR 261 588 682.49

Feb 6, 2024 3:07:43 PM

Dear Applicants,

The CEF Transport calls for proposals closed as planned on 30 January 2024 at 17:00. The COMPCOEN call received 12 applications requesting over EUR 400 million co-funding from the Connecting Europe Facility. Including all nine calls together, there is an oversubscription of over 3 times the total budget of EUR 7 billion available.

CINEA will check the admissibility and eligibility of the submitted proposals. The evaluation will continue based on the award criteria of the call, with the assistance of external independent experts. The results will be announced in July 2024.

Information of CEF Transport supported projects is published on CINEA public dashboard

Dec 19, 2023 10:47:03 AM

Dear Applicant,

The 9 CEF Transport calls for proposals will soon close on 30 January 2024 at 17:00. In total, 37 topics are open for submission on the Funding & Tenders portal.

We strongly advise you not to wait until the last minute to submit your application!

You may also see the Call page (https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/funding-opportunities/calls-proposals/2023-cef-transport-calls-proposals_en), and the Info Day page (https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/news-events/events/2023-cef-transport-calls-proposals-info-day-2023-10-10_en) to find the presentations and recording of the info day session. In addition, more than 400 FAQs are available on the FAQ support on the Funding & Tenders portal. An excel extract can also be downloaded from Info Day page under the Q&A session.

We wish you the best of luck in your application!

Nov 17, 2023 12:48:30 PM

Dear Applicant,

It has come to our attention that the links embedded within the CINEA Guide on economic appraisal for CEF Transport Projects as well as in section 4.2 Economic and Financial analysis to the DG REGIO CBA guidance are no longer functioning.

Please find attached the direct links to these guidance materials:

- DG REGIO Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis of Investment Projects: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/information/publications/guides/2014/guide-to-cost-benefit-analysis-of-investment-projects-for-cohesion-policy-2014-2020 )

- DG REGIO CBA Economic Appraisal Vademecum: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/information/publications/guides/2021/economic-appraisal-vademecum-2021-2027-general-principles-and-sector-applications)

We wish you a lot of success with the completion of your applications.

Kind regards,

CEF Transport Evaluation Team

Sep 26, 2023 12:00:04 AM

The submission session is now available for: CEF-T-2023-COMPCOEN-RAIL-WORKS(CEF-INFRA)

Rail: studies, works or mixed

CEF-T-2023-COMPCOEN-RAIL-WORKS

Programme: Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
Call: CEF 2 Transport - Projects on the Comprehensive Network – Cohesion envelope (CEF-T-2023-COMPCOEN)
Type of action: CEF-INFRA CEF Infrastructure Projects
Type of MGA: CEF Action Grant Budget-Based [CEF-AG]
Deadline model: single-stage
Opening date: 26 September 2023
Deadline date: 30 January 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time

Objective:
The objective is to develop rail transport infrastructure projects on the comprehensive Network of the TEN-T.

Scope:
Studies and / or works, related to:

construction/upgrading of cross-border and missing links;
capacity and performance upgrade of existing lines, including removal of level-crossings and upgrades necessary for 740 meter long trains and upgrades necessary to facilitate international rail passenger and freight transport;
capacity increase in nodes, including as regards a better articulation of long-distance and local traffic;
interconnections between rail and other modes of transport, in particular inland waterway and maritime transport and projects aimed at the integration of the rail and air networks to make the feeder network for long-haul flights more sustainable. Projects located exclusively within the perimeter of inland ports and maritime ports must be submitted under those priorities respectively;
connections of freight terminals to the TEN-T Network, including the construction/upgrade of the railway infrastructure component of the terminals;
electrification of line tracks and upgrade/construction of electrification systems.
Support will not be given to railway stations, except for railway infrastructure components. If the project includes such components, they should be presented as a separate work package. Support will not be given to activities related to the Class B systems nor to rolling stock.

Support to track side ERTMS deployment, interlockings and/or GSM-R components will only be granted under ERTMS (section 6.2.1 ‘Actions related to smart and interoperable mobility’ of the Work Programme), in the form of Unit Contribution[1].

Projects must comply with the provisions of Directive (EU) 2016/797[2] and with the related Technical Specifications for Interoperability. Where relevant, projects shall also be compatible with the alignment of operating procedures across borders in order to ensure the most effective use of the supported infrastructure.

Facilities and infrastructure supported under CEF must be accessible for use by all operators on a non-discriminatory basis.

[1]Decision authorising the use of unit contributions to support the deployment of ERTMS, electric vehicles recharging infrastructure and the retrofitting of noisy wagons under CEF Transport – 22 July 2021, https://transport.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-07/2021-07-22-ertms-af-noise.pdf

[2]Directive (EU) 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the interoperability of the rail system within the European Union (OJ L 138, 26.5.2016, p. 44) which replaces Directive 2008/57/EC as of 31 October 2020.